In order to explain this term, we’ll give you a simple example: do you recall when, during a school exam, your leg would shake rhythm...

'A glass bottle, round and thick, without a base, with a covering of swamp weed that surrounds the body and forms its base...’: even ...

Since the construction works started for the new trams, whenever people from Florence have to go somewhere, they use the expression ‘...

We Tuscans love to emphasize that our region, but above all Florence, is the cradle of the Italian language. Moreover, we also have pro...

We are not mistaken! We know very well that when talking about Saint Anthony one immediately thinks of Padua! But we are talking about ...

The surname Ginori is known worldwide as a synonym of style, class and elegance. Do you know where the first factory producing this com...

Munch's 'The Scream' is probably one of the most famous and best-known paintings in the world. It was painted in 1893 and, as the artis...

Bernardo Buontalenti is one of the most interesting figures of the Renaissance in Florence: an eclectic person, he was an architect, pa...

Along with the Florentine steak, peposo is certainly one of the best known and most delicious traditional Tuscan dishes. It is a succul...

Have you ever seen Roberts talcum powder? It’s the one in the green box with Art Nouveau decorations and red words. Those of you born...

The expression is not, so to speak, exactly elegant. On the other hand, the most popular ways of saying are also the most colorful. Cha...

The Toscano cigar is one of the many extraordinary things of this wonderful region. A pleasure for true connoisseurs, an ambassador of ...

There are people in Florence who are a real institution. The histrionic Fabio Picchi is just one of these. You will have seen him on te...

Here we are, once again, to teach you a beautiful Tuscan lesson. This time we will focus on words that housewives in Florence use pract...

In Tuscany we don’t have a proper dialect, but you just have to move a couple of miles to hear different ways of saying that are spec...

Bischero is one of the best-known Tuscan words. Calling someone a 'bischero' means describing them as a naive, good-for-nothing and not...

There are dishes that count as established institutions in the tradition and culture of some cities. Here, in Florence, this role is pl...

Lanterns are now very fashionable and are used at parties and weddings. Florence, however, has always been ahead of time, so much so th...

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...

That local proverbs and sayings often contain precious 'pearls of popular wisdom' is a well-known fact. But sometimes they can go even ...

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...

In Leccio, a small town in the municipality of Reggello, 30 km from Florence, there is an oriental castle, of the sort you would see in...

We are sure you have already heard of 'finocchiona' before and perhaps you have even tried it: it is the tasty salami made with shoulde...

San Vivaldo is one of the many Sacri Monti (Italian for "Sacred Mountains") that were built around the 1500s in various parts of Italy ...

The Church of St. John the Baptist designed by the Pistoia-born Architect Giovanni Michelucci is known to everyone as the 'The Motorway...

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...

Walking around Florence you might happen to come across strange road signs. Just that this time, Tuscan pranksters are not the ones to ...

In Florence, on the dome that rises above the Cathedral, stands the largest gnomon in Europe. If you are not lovers of astronomy, the i...

There are many different ways to get to Piazza del Duomo in Florence. Most tourists head down to Via Dei Cerretani and after passing th...

In 2001 following the alarm caused by the spread of the virus called ‘Mad cow’, Florentine steak was banned. You could eat and buy ...

That modern tennis was born in Wimbledon is a fact everyone knows; however, it isn’t as known that the term 'tennis' was used for the...

Some of you might have heard about the ‘Stendhal Syndrome', but it isn’t as well known that it is also called 'Florence Syndrome'.....

Florence, the 'Cradle of the Renaissance', a true treasure trove of art and culture. But beyond so much beauty, the Tuscan capital hide...

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

Many of you will know Caravaggio’s 'Bacchus', the wonderful painting depicting the God of wine and tipsiness, made between 1596 and 1...

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 ...