When
you think of coffee, we
automatically think of Italy, of our espresso and cappuccino, with its foam so
dense and creamy you can even draw on it.
That’s because it is well known that Italians are big coffee lovers, so much so
that they have turned its preparation into...
In
English-speaking countries, the term "fiasco" refers to a failure,
but in Italy, especially in Tuscany, the term a fiasco is only used for drinking
wine!The
fiasco is a flared glass bottle with a round bottom, covered with straw. Its
origins are very ancient, dating back to around the 14th...
The tape measure is an object that we all have at home, a tool of little importance, often forgotten at the bottom of a drawer under the batteries and
the rolls of adhesive tape. We would never consider it a luxury item.But
what if we told you that in order...
The Accademia
della Crusca, commonly referred to as La Crusca, is a society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology based in
Florence. It is one of the most important research institutions on the Italian
language, as well as the oldest linguistic academy in the world.It was
founded in Florence...
The
word aperitivo
derives from the Latin "aperitivus",
meaning "opener" (to open the stomach for the meal), thus a drink that stimulates gastric juices, helping
digestion.In
this sense, the aperitivo dates back
to the times of the Ancient Greeks, when the
physician Hippocrates administered to his patients a bitter drink...
Just
a few minutes by bus from Florence, there's a small gem of a museum, entirely
dedicated to medieval and Renaissance sacred art. This is the Bandini Museum in Fiesole, founded in
1795 by Angelo Maria Bandini, a canon and librarian of the Laurentian Library
in Florence, as well as...
Photography
enthusiasts will particularly appreciate the ironic composition of the images
by Hugo Suissas, the Portuguese
photographer to whom the current exhibition at the Museo degli Innocenti is dedicated, open until September 13th.The
project extends beyond the museum, with selected works on display at the
Mercato Centrale in Florence.The
exhibition...
The
Palio di Siena race lasts just a few
minutes, but requires a full year of preparation. Twice a year, ten districts (contrade)
race on a tuff ring laid out in Piazza del Campo.
It is the most anticipated event of the year, celebrated with great fervor by
locals.
You...
The shooting stars visible to the naked eye on the night of San Lorenzo are called Perseids, as they come from the constellation of Perseus. They form
a meteor shower that the Earth passes through in the summer, during its orbit
around the sun. Visible from the end of July...
The
exhibition "Florence Deco. Atmospheres of the Twenties" is open until
August 25th at Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It recounts a decade of exceptional
creative ferment in Florence.After
the World War I, emerged a renewed interest in the applied arts, which perfectly
expressed the aesthetic values of the time and were...
