Category: Florence
Our local guides share the Florence behind the postcards: how to visit the Uffizi and the Accademia without losing half a day in queues, where to eat proper Tuscan food in Oltrarno, the best viewpoints over the Duomo, and easy day trips to Siena, San Gimignano and the Chianti hills. Practical, local, no clichés. Ready to see it with us? Explore our Florence tours.
Florence: The Schiacciata
In the US, Donoughts, in the Uk, scones and in Florence Schiacciata! Any trip to Florence is meaningless if you did not…
Bardini Gardens
You visited Boboli gardens already? You wish to discover another truly enchanted garden in Florence? Then place on your list the Bardini…
Clet Abraham: When being against was against
Unfair enough, it seems so common and straightforward to assume nowadays that questioning any strictness of rules, restrictions and power move in…
Nativity by Gerrit Van Honthors 1619
Nativity by Gerrit Van Honthors 1619 – Florence – Uffizi
Ponte Vecchio grandeur
Ponte Vecchio, formerly “ the old bridge” is unquestionably one of the most romantic and inspiring places of Italy. Perhaps zillions of…
Florentine soccer: manly and mad
Amid all the incredibly unique things Florence has produced and offered over the centuries, Florentine historic soccer, more commonly known as “calcio…
Judith Beheading Holofernes: first feminism manifesto?
A deep vibration, a sadly revealed secret and a psychological profiling which pioneered the vision of a powerful and rebellious woman: “Judith…
