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Wedding in Florence Have you ever thought of getting married or renewing your vows in Florence?  Think a magical background for photos and feeling like royalty at Palazzo Vecchio.  Take a look at this video and imagine your memorable day! JOIN US ON THE NEXT PAGE FOR THE VIDEO

How to roll your R in Italian  Learning to roll an R is a learned skill. The rolled R is used when pronouncing words in many languages. Depending upon the language, the R sound is made with different movements of the mouth and positions of the tongue. It is referred to as trilled or flipped. […]

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 […]

Roman Holiday Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won. […]

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

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 […]

Impressions of Tuscany Tuscany is a magic place! In this video you will see gorgeous time lapse impressions of Tuscany. It is definitely a “wow” 2 minutes in this video! Impressions of Tuscany from geoff tompkinson on Vimeo. Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life – Anna Akhmatova