A bus ride up to Piazzale Michelangelo gives a superb view over Florence, then we walk down to Ponte Vecchio. Afternoon train ride to Pisa to see the tower and Old Town. Designed in 1869 by Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi, Piazzale Michelangelo offers panoramic views of Florence and the Arno valley and is a popular spot with locals and tourists.
Category: Life
Salami, cheese: the tastes of Taste 2012 are here
Salami, cheese, beer, chocolate, fish, vegetables and much more:”Taste” is on stage in Florence, Italy, a trip to the diversity of taste. Here there are some of the more curios products: there are sausages, raw and cooked, seasoned and fresh, flavored with spices or let cook for 22 hours. There is the “Cinta Senese”, a kind of pig reared outdoors, all black with a white stripe on the back.
The chocolate eggs of solidarity on the street
Back again this year the campaign “The eggs of solidarity” Tuscany Cancer Association. The initiative will continue until Thursday, April 5. Make a small donation will be offered delicious chocolate eggs to support the Cancer Association of Tuscany (ATT) in its activities to home care cancer free.
“Out of Taste” in Florence, the essential guide
Time of tastings, in Florence: on March, from 7th to 10th our city will become the capital of Italian food & beverage, with the seventh annual “Taste”, a journey to discover the excellence and diversities of taste. There are many events – almost an hundred – around Florence for “Out of Taste”. Here there are some of the most important.
A risky heart operation in the last Perugini’s book
“A Tear in the Heart” (Con un buco nel cuore) by Sasha Perugini is the story of a woman who plays tough: never afraid, never complaining, not even when faced with a significant heart operation. The author, director of Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, tells her experience in Italian with self-irony and lightness even in the most dramatic moments.
Laura Pausini has rescheduled the concert
Laura Pausini, musicians, technicians and all the staff have estimated that it could not proceed with work because deeply affected by the disappearance of his colleague and friend Matteo, who died tragically on the night of March 4 and March 5.
A classic concert in Palazzo Davanzati
A new concert into the historic walls of Palazzo Davanzati in Via Porta Rossa 13, Florence, Italy. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, at 16, when there will be a concert of music from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century composer Filippo Gragnani from Livorno and Genoa’s famous artist, Niccolò Paganini.
Beyonce and Gwyneth, a yoga break in Tuscany
Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow are planning to take a yoga-based break with their kids in Tuscany, Italy. The news was reported today by The Sun and some American newspapers and websites specializing in music and entertainment. Beyonce could travel with the two months-old daughter Blue Ivy, while 39-year-old Gwyneth will come to Tuscany with the daughter Apple.
Terra futura, the “good practices” fair
Terra Futura is a fair-meeting organized in a exhibition area, getting bigger and more articulate every year, and in a very high level program of cultural initiatives, meetings, seminars, workshop; and also laboratories and shows. This year the fair will be held in Florence, Italy, at Fortezza da Basso, May 25-27, 2012. Free entrance.
Ornellaia, charity auction in Hong Kong
On April 27, 21 bottles of 111 in the collection of “Harvest of Ornellaia 2009 Artist Equilibrium” by Ornellaia will be part of a charity auction at a gala dinner in Hong Kong. During the evening auction at Sotheby’s it will be presented one Salmanazar, 10 imperial and 10 double magnums made unique by the hands of the artist Zhang Huan. The proceeds will be donated to “H2 Foundation for Arts and Education, Luo Zhongli Scholarship”.