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Wine Road A 2 day Wine tasting event brought small and large wine producers to Via de’ Neri.   Along the street, the producers were set up on wine barrels to give tastings to the public.  Along with wine, most producers offered small snacks such as pizza or bread with olive oil. Here is how […]

Street Singer in Florence There are a lot of very talented street musicians in Florence.  While you are strolling one of the piazzas, you can enjoy the entertainment.  Some of the musicians sell their cd’s and work for tips.  Here’s a great video of Claudio Spadi singing in Piazza della Repubblica. Check out the official […]

The ultimate Florentine steak, Italy The T-bone and porterhouse are steaks of beef cut from the short loin (called the sirloin in Commonwealth countries). Both steaks include a “T-shaped” bone with meat on each side. Porterhouse steaks are cut from the rear end of the short loin and thus include more tenderloin steak, along with […]

Carnival of Viareggio The Carnival of Viareggio was born in 1873 when there was the first parade of festively decorated carriages in the historic Via Regia, the heart of the old town. It was transferred to the Promenade at the beginning of the twentieth century and it has grown in size and popularity year after […]

Italy Travel Show – Street Performers in Florence Have you ever stopped to see street performers in Italy?  Some of them can be quite entertaining. Here’s a quick glimpse of some of the street performers in Florence. JOIN US ON THE NEXT PAGE FOR THE VIDEO

Details of Siena Cathedral Duomo di Siena is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta (Holy Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption). The cathedral itself was originally designed and completed between 1215 and 1263 on the site of an earlier structure. It has the […]

Pavement in Siena Cathedral The Cathedral of Siena contains numerous masterpieces from every epoch. A work that in many respects is exceptional, is the floor, “the most beautiful … largest and most magnificent … that ever was made” in the words of Giorgio Vasari, the fruit of a plan that took on concrete form through […]

Livorno Livorno (Italian: [liˈvorno]; English traditionally Leghorn /lɛɡˈhɔrn/ leg-hawrn, /ˈlɛɡɔrn/ leg-awrn), is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy.  It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 159,431 residents on February 2015. At the end of the 17th century, Livorno underwent a period […]

Livorno Air Show The Frecce Tricolori ( literally “Tricolour Arrows”), officially known as the 313° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare, based at Rivolto Air Force Base, in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, province of Udine. They were formed in 1961 as an Air Force […]

Chianti Classico Wine Festival in Greve in Chianti September is a great month for wine festivals and my favorite is the Chianti Classico Wine Festival. This annual 4 day festival occurs on the Thursday through Sunday of the second weekend in September. It is held in Piazza Matteotti in Greve in Chianti. How it works When […]