One of the most
well-hidden churches in all of Florence is probably Santo Stefano al Ponte.
However, the name suggests where we can find it: in the small Piazza Santo Stefano,
near Ponte Vecchio.
Founded before 1116, the
year in which the first documentations mention it, the church of Santo...
Estamos en Porta Romana, al sur de Florencia,
donde aún se mantienen en pie las murallas del siglo XIV sobrevivientes a la
reestructuración urbanistica de Giuseppe Poggi en 1865. Inmediatamente después
de la puerta monumental, se abre una pequeña plaza, Piazza della Calza. El nombre deriva de la iglesia y...
This time it is difficult
to guess the meaning of this work. Against a starry sky and galactic clouds,
the composition seems to develop from right to left with three figures. The
first is an alien, clearly the owner of the flying saucer from which a strange
character with big...
How we dress, how we style our hair, how we decorate our body, is
nowadays a personal choice, but in the past, there were rules to follow
and it was not possible to appear in public dressed in improperly.
Moreover, for the common people dressing nicely was not a necessity,...
Another work from the Cure underpass - one of the main Florentine galleries of creative
"vandalization" - caught our attention: signed by Skino, its title is
"Alien flower and mad dog".
The flower seems to influence
the dog with its waves of “alien energy, making him crazy, almost as if...
Monte Ceceri is a hill between Fiesole
and Settignano north of the city. A
protected natural area, very popular with Florentines for walks and picnics,
and for climbing. It is said that the name of the place derives from the
nickname given by the Florentines to swans, once present in...
Street Art also includes
graffiti or writing, that is, the signatures that street artists invent with
the utmost chromatic and graphic creativity and try to place in as many places
as possible. On the walls, on the train sides, on the bridges pillars, etc. A
desire or need to be...
Eating well in the summer can be difficult when the heat makes you want to give up cooking on the stove, but there is a traditional Tuscan dish that will solve this problem and will also stimulate the most refined palates, despite its simplicity: it’s Panzanella! A fresh and substantial dish, Panzanella...
It may happen that
looking for the address of a shop becomes confusing for those coming from
outside Florence, because in the Tuscan capital a differentiation is made
between the house numbers, written in black, and those of commercial
activities, marked with red numbers.
The origins
The civic numbering in...
Street art is generally
characterized by bright colors, but some artists prefer to use black and white,
often for works of a more emotional nature.
This is the case with
these two portraits of elderly men, whose intense gazes convey sadness and a
sense of loneliness in the observer.
...
