Categoria: Free Tour

Mar 10, 2024

Big secrets door back to the Uffizi Gallery

Now we want tell something about a place were people and tourist probably walk in front. On via Lambertesca at n.4, in the direction of the Uffizi square, we passed in front of the large green color door, and we wondered .. but what will it be inside? Soon said, what remains and we can see currently consisted of various home belonging to the Pulci family, these finding themselves very close to the large complex of the new pole of the city power, were acquired for the new structure used for the mint, very important for coining of the coins.

Mar 9, 2024

Golden Apartment in Florence

Twelve million euros for 450 square meters, with a 70 square meter panoramic patio. Their pay per square meter is almost 27,000 euros. We are in Florence, in the Palazzo Portinari Salviati on the Via del Corso, where Dante Alighieri is rumored to have met Beatrice, but the price is more than that of an apartment on the île Saint-Louis, in the middle of the Senna, in the heart of Paris. Enjoy an amazing view of the Brunelleschi dome and the Torre di Arnolfo from the panoramic terrace. Which would you rather see: the Sacre-Coeur of Montmartre or the Eiffel Tower?

Mar 8, 2024

8 March Women Holiday…

Many movements, such as the American National American Woman Suffrage Association, that sought to grant women the right to vote and ensure greater participation in political life were born in the Anglossassone world between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, particularly in that region. or the Women's Social and Political Union, headed by Emmeline Pankhurst, and the British National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

Mar 7, 2024

a Hold theater at Baglioni hotel

Today, we wanted to relate the story of, or recall a portion of, the Gran Hotel Baglioni, which was held by Prince Carrega de Lucedio in the nineteenth century. The Baglioni hotel's lateral half is visible from Piazza dell'Unità Italiano to Via del Melarancio. At first sight, everything appears normal, but if you look closely, you can see a coat of arms at the top on the left. Nothing new can be seen here, so what? Examining the previously described heraldic coat of arms, we observe a cabinet with a finger close to the mouth, indicating that it is intended to contain a mouse trap.

Mar 6, 2024

A Guide to the Best Walking Tour in Florence, Italy for 2024 Travelers

There are many beautiful sights to see in Florence. Read here for a guide to the best walking tour in Florence, Italy for 2024 travelers.

Mar 5, 2024

War of families Guelphs and Ghibellines

The Amidei and the Buondelmonti were two noble and conspicuous Florentine families, whose historic dispute is considered as the beginning of the struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Florence. The background took place in January 1216 when Mazzingo Tegrimi de 'Mazzinghi gave a great party in his own castle of fields, to celebrate his appointment as a knight, a party to which all the Florentine nobility was obviously invited....

Mar 4, 2024

Romeo and Juliet the true story

Udine, February 26, 1511 Carnival day. At Palazzo Savorgnan a masked dance takes place and between Lucina Savorgnan, 15 years old and Luigi da Porto was love at first sight. The nobility and the population were divided between Zamberlani and Strumieri, with the first ones who headed the Savorgnan family who aimed to transform Friuli into a lordship under their control and the seconds that grouped various local nobility supported by the Austrian empire. In Udine, a bloody revolt broke out remembered as the "cruel Thursday fat" which will involve, contrasting them, two branches of the Savorgnan family, the of the Monte and the of the Torre.

Mar 3, 2024

Palazzo delle Cento Finestre

The Palazzo delle Cento Finestre, already known as Palazzo del Centauro, is located in Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence. On four sides, in fact, a number of openings of just under one hundred is placed. In this site there were in ancient times the houses of the hesses, of the Carnesecchi and perhaps of the Martini. At the end of the fifteenth century numerous of these buildings were purchased by Michele di Carlo Strozzi, but only at the beginning of the eighteenth century a real noble palace was built, probably since 1720. In 1744 Giuseppe Zocchi already included a view of the «Palazzo del Sig . Marquis Strozzi, of the centaur, and the road that leads to S. M. Novella »in the famous series of engravings of views of Florence. The «Centauro» appellation derives from the fact that at the time the sculptural group of Giambologna di Ercole with Centauro Nesso was located in front of the building, at the song of the Carnesecchi, where they converged via dei Cerretani, via Panzani, via de 'Rondinelli and via dei Banchi, and only just before the mid -nineteenth century was he moved to the Loggia dei Lanzi.

Mar 2, 2024

Gianbologna Centaurus

Once upon a time there was a centaur named Nesso and travelers tragled the travelers on the Evento or Licorma river (Greek region of the Etolia). Heracles, heading to Trachis with his family, entrusted him with Deianira but Nesso tried to rape her and Heracles killed him with a poisoned arrow dipped in the blood of the Idra di Lerna. A Flemish sculptor named Jean De Boulogne aka Giambologna around 1598 sculpted one of his many masterpieces with great skill, the marble group of Hercules and the Centaur Nesso. The work of great emotional impact certainly proposes forms and styles different from the classic models , resuming Michelangeioleschi motifs, but with a strong sense of dynamism. In 1599 he was placed on the song of the Carnesecchi formed by the quadrivio composed of via Rondinelli, via Cerretani, via Panzani and via dei Banchi. And it is in this place that the marble group of Giambologna creates a real fulcrum of the area so much so that the adjacent palace took the name of Centauro also known as the Palazzo delle Cento Windows.

Mar 1, 2024

A secret library in Florence

This time we visit a building transformed over the centuries ... a great testimony present in the area in question: it is the hospice called Orbatello I recommend not Orbetello and is located between via degli Alfani and via della Colonna. Perhaps on the design of Agnolo Gaddi was founded in 1372 thanks to the left of the banker-Mecenate Niccolò degli Alberti. The building takes its name from the orbades (from the lat.orbus- without) or women who had had deaths in the family, so much so that it is no longer self-sufficient. The hospice was large compared to the frequent city, it consisted of a hundred small "two -room apartments" and a small common cuisine, while the structure reserved for medical assistance was prepared for a few tens of beds.