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Long before the Romans rampaged onto the scene, the Etruscans had forged a powerful civilization in central Italy. While little remains of this ancient people, if you head to the pitted, rugged hills of Tuscany, Umbria and northern Lazio, and you’ll find traces of what was once one of the Mediterranean’s great cultures. Here is our guide to Italy’s...

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Villa Demidoff is the modern name of what remains of the Medici Villa of Pratolino, whose construction began in the 16th century. The villa, located in the town of Pratolino, in a rugged area at the foot of the Apennines, half an hour from Florence, was designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de’ Medici, the future Grand Duke of Tuscany. ...

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All over the world there are famous sports techniques invented by some athletes, such as the high jump with dorsal overrun invented by the Portland (OR) athlete Richard Douglas "Dick" Fosbury. Italians, always recognized as a people of geniuses, thanks to the countless inventions of every kind that they have realized during the centuries, have left...

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There are so many city in Italy that have food name. Gragnano, Parma, Colonnata, Gorgonzola, are only a bunch of them. Actually, there are some more, from the north to the south of Italy. To give food name to the city it is not an Italian linguistic affectation but something much more important.  When a city has food name we can easily recognized t...

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Benvenuto Brunello is the annual event, promoted by the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, which officially presents the new vintage of one of the most prized and appreciated Italian wines. The appointment that is held in the center of Montalcino – after more than twenty years has been moved momentarily from February, period in which this w...

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Imagine the stupor, the surprise Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museo delle Cappelle Medicee Florence, must have felt when he discovered, entirely by chance, the last secret of Michelangelo Buonarroti. The year was 1975, the location was the Basilica di San Lorenzo, more precisely the Sagrestia Nuova, created during the Renaissance by Mic...

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VALLOMBROSA ABBEY IS A CENTURIES-OLD monastery in a pristine Tuscan mountain valley founded in 1036 by San Giovanni Gualberto, a Benedictine monk who left Florence to found a monastic order emphasizing isolation, contemplation, and silence. While the Vallombrosan Order he founded has significantly shrunk in the modern era, the abbey they built over...

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Picture Tuscany; the beautiful rolling hills, the crystal blue ocean, the array of cultural beauty that attractions millions of people from around the world. Wouldn’t she be marvelous to capture on screen? The owners of production company Fair Play certainly think so and have made it the core of its mission statement. Founded in 2016 by world-renow...

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A Medici family chapel created by Michelangelo that was cleaned with the help of bacteria has been presented to the public to mark the 545th anniversary of the Renaissance master’s birth. Michelangelo was commissioned to sculpt the New Sacristy, in the Medici chapels in San Lorenzo church in Florence, in 1520. Restorers struggled to clean the dirt...

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The Chianti Classico Consortium returned to New York City on February 28th to celebrate the recent introduction of the UGA (Additional Geographic Units) classification system, which differentiate and highlight the differences in climate and soil type of 11 villages of the region. The Walk-around Tasting was held at the Altman Building from 12 to 5...

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