Category: Free Tour

Feb 8, 2024

Sweets and cocktails in Florence

Once at the Agolo di via delle Oche and via dei Calzaiuoli, there was a loggia, still visible from the arches of the shops. The loggia belonged to the family of the hatyaries of the Guelph part, and like so many wealthy of the time having such a building was a sort of presentation ticket to the population, parties, weddings and receptions of various kinds were made inside it. But this was called or rather nicknamed "La Neghittosa" (from the Latin neglectus -Svogliato -Pigro), then a meeting place for time and listless, later transformed into the tavern was in the centuries absorbed by the houses. In the first half of the 1700s and more precisely in 1733 the Swiss family Gilli opens in via Calzaiuoli "La Bottega dei Pani sweets", a real world of various sweets, jams, pastry.

Feb 7, 2024

Schiacciata Fiorentina, traditional Carneval’s Cake

At Carnival in February Florence is transformed with many innumevoli weekly activities. But one of the most famous and unique things in Florence is the typical dessert the legendary crushed to Fiorentina. Or how the citizens of Florence love to call Sperizoly Stiacciata of Florence. Let's see the origins of this ancient traditional dessert of Florence. Scock because it seems to have origin from the red of the eggs that were crushed inside the bowls where the copost Diesso were mixed. But the original name in the one thousand eight hundred was crushed greased. Thus called her pilgrim arusor father of Italian and Tuscan cuisine of origin. He lived in Florence for a few years where he wrote his book on Italian cuisine.

Feb 6, 2024

Santo Spirito area a pearl inside of Florence

A vibrant districts with distinct locations are: strolling aimlessly and allowing yourself to be taken aback by the numerous artisan stores in our tours we are suggesting some; one of our favorites is situated on the ground floor in front of the Chesa di Sant Spirito Number 12 following turning right through the atrium gate, Giuliano Ricci' artisan laboratory awaits you. Stefano is one of the remaining masters of copper decorating. This is an activity that we may recommend if you wish to have a special experience while in Florence. One of Florence's newest traditional butchers may be found on the same street as Santo Spirito.

Feb 5, 2024

Four saints in Orsanmichele, legend.

A query regarding a collection of marble sculptures in an outside niche of the Orsanmichele cathedral that were created by Nanni di Banco. The austere layout of the sculptures resurrects elements of Flavs' Roman art, including the perforation method used to create the hair, which was influenced by emperor portraits. The consuls of the art of the stone masters and timber, of which he was a part, commissioned Banco to create the four sculptures of Nanni that were placed in a niche and were fashioned of Apuano marble between 1409 and 1417. Three marble blocks were used to create this group; the two to the viewer's right are carved as a single block on a marble semicircular platform that comprises the niche floor, in the hoof flanked by the corporation coats of all.

Feb 4, 2024

Sciacciata alla Fiorentina competition in town

It was decided to increase the number of finalists to 31 and conduct a pre-selection in tandem due to competitors and ways of handling the extremely high number of requests received by the Competition Directorate (over 50). The judges concluded that the final-crushed finalists were, in fact, the greatest in the metropolitan region.

Feb 3, 2024

Church of Santa Maria Sopra Porta

Recalling that in 1038, it was given the name Por "Santa Maria" and acquired the appellation "above Porta" due to its location at the southern entrance of the Carolingian fortifications. Here, in 1216, the combination marriage of Buondelmonte de 'Buondelmonti and reparata of Lambertuccio degli Amboi was required; however, the bride's rejection resulted in the customary partition of the city into two factions, subsequently referred to as Ghibellines and Guelphs. Additionally, this is the suggestion that Moscow's Lamberti would have given, using the well-known statement that the head made to persuade the Hamidii to assassinate Buondelmonte. Ghibeline families, including the Uberti, Arrighi, Fifanti, and Ambreans, really made up the majority of the parish's population.

Feb 2, 2024

Secret passage in Pitti Palace

Perhaps not everyone knows about the existence of a corridor that starts from Palazzo Pitti performes concludes near the Galileo Tribune in the Specola Museum. This architectural space was to be the "appendix" of the famous corridor of the "Prince" or Vasarian. We are talking about the so -called Pocciantini corridor, it was made by Pasquale Poccianti in 1820 to allow Ferdinand III to have a connection with the adjacent Palazzo Pitti, thus creating an uninterrupted route that allowed him to arrive at Palazzo Vecchio through the Vasarian corridor.

Feb 1, 2024

Accademia Gallery 2023, two million visitors

he Accademia Gallery closed its doors in 2023 after welcoming over two million visitors—2,013,974—a record never before attained by the public. This means that the magnificent David by Michelangelo, which has always been a popular focal point, is no longer packed with people. Not only does this location have "museums inside the museum" like the department of musical instruments and the gipsoteca, but they are scattered throughout every room.

Jan 31, 2024

St. Appolinare in Florence its history

Piazza San Florence has altered several times over time, beginning with the Roman era, when the city's defenses were built here. If you walk in front of the Bargello Museum, you will notice a semi-circle on the street that marks the Roman tower unearthed by Annifa beneath the road surface. One of these little-known improvements is located just near to the Bargello Museum. We are discussing the church of S.Apollinare in its distinctive form, but it is a rather ordinary building. In truth, that little church was one of the twelve churches of the Priories of Florence, possibly built in the sixth century AD under the control of the Goths of Theodoric, and was dedicated to Apollinare, a Ravenna martyr of Syrian ancestry. The two notarial acts of January and February 1065 are dated back to the mid-twentieth century… "Vinea Sancti APPOLENARI" (the vineyards of S.Apollinare, at that time there were vineyards worked by the monks) and "Petium Terre Posite Extra Muros Civitatis Florentie Prope Ecclesiam Sancti Apollinaris" (request for land located outside the walls of the city of Florence near the church of Sant'Apollinare).

Jan 30, 2024

Ancient refrigerator of Florence

Certainly since the mists of time food conservation has always been a fundamental if not primary element for human nutrition. So everything that could be useful in the use to slow down the deterioration and prevent those phenomena of proliferation of pathogens was very important. The most common systems were those of the salt, of clerk, of use of fresh environments but above all the use of ice. The difficulty of finding ice in hot periods developed a simple but not banal expedient, that is, the creation of the "refrigerators" of the time known as Ghiacciaie or "Diacciae" in Florentine. But many cities were not close to the mountains so something had to be devised immediate functionality.