You all know how tasty panforte is and probably also that that it is one of Siena’s icons. What you may not know is the story behind ...

Raise your hand, or rather, click on your mouse if you have never eaten baiocchi, macine or tegolini biscuits! As I imagined, there are...

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

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

Even Tuscany, like any other part of the world, has its amusing collection of folk legends. These are legends that have been handed dow...

There’s an expression in Italian that goes: ‘Per un punto Martin perse la Cappa’. (literally ‘For a dot Martin lost hid hood’...

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...

Many of you will know Montepulciano for the beauty of its historic center that has earned the town the nickname 'Pearl of the 1500s'. O...

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...

The Siena Palio has been known since 1200 when the Lords and the notaries of Siena were used to gambling their status and prestige by r...

Subversive, persecuted, anarchist, homeless, dreamer: it is really difficult to define Piero Carbonetti, Tuscan bred and born and Garib...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As many of you will know, especially lovers of good wine, Galletto Nero (literal black small cockerel) is the symbol of wines produced ...

If I mention Chianti, what comes to your mind? Half of you will immediately think of wine, while the remainder will be split between hi...