This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. A fun fact about the Renaissance period, transmitted through the centuries: Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli were friends and, for a short period, they owned an inn together. Leonardo and Botticelli met around 1470, read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Gino Bartali (July 18, 1914 – May 5, 2000) was nicknamed “Ginettaccio” because he was grumpy and shy. He was an unforgettable champion road cyclist; he won the Giro d’Italia three times and the Tour read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Already during the XIV century, Florence was famous for the production of leather, from tanning to selling. Therefore, leather craftsmanship has very ancient origins. Around 1282, the Arte dei Cuoiai o Galigai (curriers and tanners read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. What do Florence, Palermo and the English throne have in common? Let’s go back in time to the Medici era to discover this little known curiosity, for which we have the written chronicles of Giorgio read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. In order to get to know deep inside the grumpy and polemic Florentines, we must know something about Fiorentina, the city soccer club. Florentines have always argued about everything, but there is only one thing read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language.“The double line of dark cypress, and the intricate underbrush of rosemary, lavender and Chinese roses, the shimmering meadow of spring daffodils and wild orchids, and here and there the busy buzz of the bees, compose read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Let us now talk about the first D.O.C. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata, controlled designation of origin in English) ever. It all dates back to September, 24 1716, when the Gran Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. If you walk along the streets of Florence, you will probably see a strange and super colored taxi, driven by a woman just as strange and colored, always with a smile on her face. That read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. “Amici Miei” (“My Friends”, in English) is an Italian cult comedy-drama movie – the first of a trilogy – that was first showed in movie theatres in August 10, 1975. Shot in Florence, the movie read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Another common expression used by old and new generations in Florence and the environs is “Il Toni” to refer to sweatsuits, in sentences like “Domani vado in palestra, mi metto il toni” (tomorrow I am read more