If reading this made you think of aliens, sorry you are off the track. We are not talking about the "little green men" who are sometime...

In the splendid Island of Elba, there are many wonderful beaches and the one called Le Ghiaie is just one of these paradises. It is clo...

The ghost of Lucida Mansi is one of the most famous in Tuscany, so much so that she is one of the main characters wandering around Borg...

At about 10 km from Livorno, on a hill from which you can enjoy a splendid view of the city, but sometimes even Pisa and the Island of ...

Saint Minias is a highly venerated Saint in Tuscany. Evidence of this is for instance the charming village in the province of Pisa that...

Scotland has always been identified as the land of ghosts. It must be because there are so many castles. However, Tuscany too has its f...

The Garfagnana area in Tuscany boasts a first place for mysteries, legends and inexplicable events: goblins, bridges built by the devil...

Even the great Galileo Galilei was Tuscan. He was a Pisan, to be precise, where he studied medicine before devoting himself to science....

In Italy there is a Saint to protect the workers of every profession. Santa Zita, one of the most beloved characters of Lucca, is the p...

Do you like legends like the one of the terrible Loch Ness monster? If you don’t, stop reading! If instead you love 'X-files' stories...

Siena, like many cities of ancient origins, guards some interesting mysteries. For example, did you know that a secret river flows bene...

It is well known that Tuscans have a flair for pranks! Today we will tell you about one concocted as far back as 1300s! This trick, whi...

Siena in the 1300s would have provided excellent material for a beautiful animated fiction. In fact, the struggles between the most pow...

Ospedale del Ceppo undoubtedly counts among the many masterpieces that the delightful city of Pistoia has to offer. What fascinates tou...

The Via Francigena was an ancient road followed by pilgrims on their way to Rome or even to the ports of Puglia to reach the Holy Land....

Near Poggibonsi, a small town between Siena and Florence in upper Val D'Elsa, there is a beautiful castle with protective walls and a m...

Borgo Ognissanti is a long road located to the west of the center of Florence, where once were also the old shops of wool producers. It...

If you like to solve puzzles... Siena Cathedral is just the right thing for you, I would say! You should know that precisely the Cathed...

Olives, cypresses and vines are what characterizes the Tuscan hilly landscape. But the olive tree that lies just outside the walls of M...

In the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore there are sculptures of many different animals and it seems that each of these, in addition t...

Just minutes from Massa Marittima you can find a genuine natural oasis, Lake Accesa, on whose shores lies an Archaeological Park. The l...

An Italian idiom says that ‘the Devil makes pots, and not lids’. Yet in Tuscany he seems to have had lots of fun even with bridges ...

In Tuscany there are many sanctuaries that enshrine, inside their ancient walls, legends dating back to distant times. One of these is ...

Every ancient village owns a more or less wide range of mysteries and legends, and Volterra is no exception. Indeed, nestled among the ...

When you think about it, the devil in Tuscany has done a great job: he built bridges like the one in Borgo a Mozzano, he gave the name ...

Guido Sforza of Santa Fiora, today a beautiful village in the northwest of the Pigelleto Reserve, was an enlightened administrator. We ...

As the Italian idiom affirms, devils and bridges often travel hand in hand in legends and mysteries... Bearing these words in mind, we ...

A venerable knight and a sword stuck in the rock... Let’s be honest, the first thing that comes in mind is the Breton legend of King ...

Among the villages of Tuscany, you will surely have heard of Barga ... and you will surely have associated it with Giovanni Pascoli, th...

Indeed, even Garfagnana has its Area 51! A land of magic and ancient legends since time immemorial, this region has seen, from 197...

In the Province of Lucca and in Garfagnana, if anything of yours goes missing or if it seems to have been inexplicably moved, the local...

The beach of Alberese is one of the wildest and most unspoilt locations of the Uccellina Park. Among the marine species that inhabit it...

San Mamiliano is one of the most fascinating and intriguing characters in ancient Tuscan history: he committed himself to spreading the...

Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, which was the town in the Province of Bergamo he came from, lived a life nothing short of adv...

Lucca seems to be particularly sought after by ghosts. Just think of Lucinda Mansi, the nobleman who in the sixteenth century apparentl...

Chianti is not just synonymous with wine. It is also a land rich in history and of high archaeological interest, so much so that it wou...

Tuscany, and in particular the Chianti region, just like Scotland is full of ghosts that haunt more or less cheerfully villages and cas...

In the Middle Ages, the Maremma hills were surrounded by picturesque windmills that used to grind the grain of the surrounding countrys...

Just outside Florence, exactly in the hamlet of Grassina, there is a timeless and, sometimes, surreal place: we are talking about the F...

Lucca has always been a very rich city, as testified by its many elegant and refined palaces in the historic center. One of these is Pa...

Certaldo Alto is a charming medieval village in Val d'Elsa known both for its ancient beauty and as the place where the Italian writer ...

In one of the most beautiful castles in Tuscany, there is a special guest: it is the ghost of the cruel Countess Matelda, a noble woman...