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...
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.
...
Pietrasanta is a small town 100 km from Florence, near the sea and at
the foot of the Apuan Alps, from where the marble,
that all Tuscan monuments have been built with, has been extracted for
centuries. It has always been frequented by many artists, in the past even by...
Leonardo Savioli (1917 - 1982) was one of the most important
Florentine architects. Great illustrator, abstract expressionist and informal
painter, professor at the University of Florence. He had graduated with
Giovanni Michelucci and had participated in the planning of the Urban
Development Plan of Florence in the years after the...
Summer 2019. Antella, an ancient village of 3000 inhabitants
a few kilometers from Florence. A middle school named
after Francesco Redi (1626 -1697), Tuscan scientist considered the founder of
experimental biology. One morning the town wakes up to find the walls of this school vandalized, smeared with
vulgar drawings and...
