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Photo Reportage: Antiquities Market at Fortezza da Basso in Florence

If You are looking for something unique, fun and old – Antiquities Market at Fortezza da Basso in Florence is the right place. Over 120 antiques dealers from all over Italy converge at this market, held every third weekend in Florence. Wind your way through the stalls and discover treasures ranging from furniture, knick-knacks, collectables […]

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Italian Recipes. Real Italian Tiramisù

Probably there is no trip to Italy which ends without tasting the famous italian sweet Tiramisù. The origin of tiramisù is shrouded in a mystery, so more than one Italian region – Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto – are saying they are the birth place of tiramisù. Of couse there are many legends, and one of […]

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From Brescia to Roma and back: 1000 miles on white roads

From Brescia to Roma and back: 1000 miles on white roads. This was Mille Miglia, the most famous historical Italian car race, that this year celebrates the eighty-sixth birthday. From 1927 to 1961 the race was more than a competition between cars, it was a challenge against the fate, for professional pilots and fearless gentlemen […]

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Week‘s Place: The Archeological Mines Park of San Silvestro and its Surroundings

Situated behind Campiglia Marittima and the promontory of Piombino, it covers 450 hectares, and it contains unique examples of the mining and metallurgical cycle, from the Etruscan era to the present day. The routes for visiting encompass museums, mining tunnels, a Medieval village of miners and foundrymen founded around one thousand years ago (Rocca San […]

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Exhibition “Spring of Renaissance” in Florence

Palazzo Strozzi hosts the beautiful exhibition “Spring of Renaissance” (it. La Primavera del Rinascimento) from the 23rd of March till the 18th of August 2013. The exhibit goes back to the history of sculpture and arts that sprouted in Florence between 1400 and 1460.

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Lucca Summer Festival 2013 (updated)

The Lucca Summer Festival is one of the most important musical event in Italy and one of the biggest musical events in Tuscany. The Lucca Summer Festival is held in Lucca during the month of July since 1998 and its stages hosted through years national and international bands and singers, always with a great response […]

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Italian Recipes. Real Italian Pizza

There’s no other Italian word known in the world better as “pizza”, this is, without doubt, our national dish. Personally I never met an Italian who doesn’t like pizza… at least the real italian pizza. I say real italian pizza because the diffusion of this dish around the world has meant that every country has […]

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