You might find yourself walking in the Certosa di Calci (near Pisa) or in Lucca’s suggestive amphitheater piazza, or perhaps enjoying a relaxing aperitivo on a Florentine terrace. There is[...]
I recently found a pamphlet offering guided tours in English in some of Florence’s lesser-known museums, the small collections developed by the great 19th-century antiquarians Stibbert, Horne, and Bardini. The[...]
If you’ve ever walked around downtown Florence, in via Calimala near the Porcellino market, you must have noticed the marvellous work of street painters who recreate famous paintings in chalk[...]
What and where do tourists photograph in Florence? And what do locals snap pics of? A mapping project by Eric Fischer uses flickr’s geotagging tool to provide the answer that[...]
There is a fantastic garden in Florence, right near Piazzale Michelangelo, that is open for just a few weeks of the year and features thousands of varieties of Irises (over[...]
