Category: Tour

Jan 29, 2024

Best gelato makers of Florence and Tuscany

The best artisan ice cream shop in Tuscany is located in Florence, in Oltrarno, followed closely by another Florentine ice cream parlor, while on the third step of the podium are Sale Grosseto, Pisa, and San Gimignano: this is the map drawn up by Gambero Rosso in its guide to Gelaterias of Italy 2024. The whole ranking will be announced on March 24, in honor of Ice Cream Day, but in the meantime, the first advances of the eighth edition of the publication have been disclosed. The occasion was the Sigep of Rimini, one of our country's most prominent salons in the pastry and coffee world.

Jan 28, 2024

San Zenobi miracle in Duomo square

According to tradition, on January 26, 429, the body of San Zanobi, bishop of Florence, was transferred from the Basilica of San Lorenzo to the Cathedral of Santa Reparata. However, along the way, near the north door of the baptistery, the saint's relic touched a dry elm, and despite the fact that it was full winter, the tree rejected.

Jan 27, 2024

Carnival In Florence 2024

The Florence Carnival will begin on Saturday, January 27, with the Grand Ball at the Palazzo Vecchio, followed by a big parade in the center free to anyone. The 27-day program allows travelers to enter through the Cortile del Michelozzo. The masks, created by Florentine craftsmen using the papier-mâché processing technique, will be distributed here. Sters, a mask icon of the Florentine carnival developed in the eighteenth century by the artist Luigi Del Buono and rising to the "identity" of the territory, will greet those present. With him, several judicial figures will accompany persons in the presence, like the master of ceremony.

Jan 26, 2024

Roman terms next Florence’s Porcellino

Walking in the street Por Santa Maria, where yo can find Dr Martens shop side sidewalk, towards Ponte Vecchio, in front of […]

Jan 25, 2024

Duilio 48 and the church of St. Bartolomeo

In 1888, the pope brothers built the “Great Emporio Duilio” on the ruins of a medieval church; the name was later adopted […]

Jan 23, 2024

Crucifix Gallino it’s Made by Michelangelo?

The Crucifix Gallino (after the surname of the Turin antiquarian who sold it to the Italian state in 2008) is a little […]

Jan 22, 2024

Special Pizza and Drinks party in Florence

Every month the indispensable appointment for quality fans of quality cuisine with a special themed dinner with tasting menu and wines in combination comes on time. The 2024 schedule could therefore only open up with an evening of taste at the Pizza & cuisine restaurant in Eataly. Thursday 25 January at 20:00, in via De Martelli 22/R - Just a stone's throw from the Duomo, a dinner entirely dedicated to one of the most loved dishes in the world: pizza!

Jan 21, 2024

Orsanmichele reopening after 400 days

After 400 days of construction and a €1 million investment, the Orsanmichele complex reopens to the public in a new garb. The Orsanmichele complex in Florence will reopen to the public on January 19, 2024, in a completely refurbished garb, following a total of 400 closure days: the museum closed on December 12, 2022, and the church closed January 16, 2023. The restoration, safety, museum reinforcement, and access improvement projects have cost 1.135,026.43 euros in total.

Jan 20, 2024

Bartolomeo Ammannati and “I’ Biancone”

Benvenuto Cellini is believed to have reacted on the noble's decision as follows: "Wretch marble, if with the Bandinelli you had happened badly, with the Ammannati you had happened one hundred times worse". Cellini accused Ammannati of destroying the beautiful marble, and his phrase is being passed down in Florence today. The monument represents Neptune, the Roman god of the rivers and seas, flanked by satirists, tritons, Giambologna's bronze Nereids, and four horses.

Jan 19, 2024

Michelangelo’s Crucifx

Michelangelo was hosted in the monastery of Santo Spirito in 1492, at the age of seventeen, following the death of his protector, Lorenzo Il Magnifico, who had hosted him during his artistic studies in the enormous family building in via Larga (now Palazzo Medici Riccardi). In this convent, thanks to Piero de'Medici's intercession and the prior's permission, he was able to analyze the corpses from the convent hospital to study anatomy, and it is also because of this experience that Michelangelo became one of the most capable of representing the human body in every smallest detail.

Explore cities