In Florence, Easter is celebrated with a big event: the "Scoppio del Carro" or the explosion of the cart which takes places in front of the Duomo. A huge, decorated wagon is dragged through the streets of Florence by white [...]
Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting from 8 March to 20 July 2014 a major exhibition entitled Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, the two painters who were without question the most original and unconventional adepts of the new way of interpreting art in that [...]
Known throughout the world for its excellent wines, the Chianti area is a hill region situated in the centre of Tuscany, between Florence and Siena. Country farmhouses, towered castles and ancient villages dotted around amidst vineyards and olive groves: this [...]