Florence’s Uffizi Gallery is looking to share its wealth. The museum is launching a new program called “Uffizi Diffusi”—Italian for “scattered Uffizi”—to exhibit works from its renowned collection of Renaissance masterpieces at as many as 100 sites across the greater Tuscany region. “Art can’t survive on big galleries alone,” director Eike Schmidt...

Modern Italian, like many other languages, originated from Latin.  After the Roman Empire fell, Classical Latin continued to be used for most writings.  A different version, Vulgar Latin, became more commonly spoken by the average person in parts of Italy and eventually led to Classical Italian. Latin continued to change over the centuries, creatin...

My name is Andrea Sozzi Sabatini, and I'm the CEO and founder of Etrurio. It's a farm where it aims to produce top-quality olive oil in Tuscany. Today, I'm going to walk you through how Marco restores this beautiful 583-year-old fresco. The first work that we have to do is to consolidate the walls. The first thing is really to take the stones that...

The medieval village of Certaldo is one of the most characteristic places in Tuscany and in the Val D’Elsa. The historic village is located a few kilometers far from Florence and hosts a large number of buildings and places of historical and artistic interest. A picturesque atmosphere envelops the streets of Certaldo and the historic buildings, pre...

From the Tower of Pisa to the medieval villages, visiting castles that fascinate for their history, architecture and strategic functions. And also mines, olive groves and lagoons. This is Tuscany, a region of a thousand villages. We offer you a list of 5 itineraries to visit in Tuscany simply by using a bicycle, enjoying the views and the beauty. T...

It would be a shame to not explore the quaint beauty that surrounds Florence. There are many villages and hamlets set in the beautiful Tuscan landscape that make the perfect day trip. For a taste of the region’s borghi, countryside, medieval castles, bell towers and Renaissance palaces, and to revel in the classic Tuscan landscape of rows of olive...

On February 25th, the winners of the cultural contest have been announced. Let’s have a look at the podium of the Luoghi Del Cuore 2021 ( Places in the Heart 2021 ). The Bronze Medal: Brescia’s Castle. With a total of 43.469 votes, this Medieval fortress and castle gained the third place. It’s in the northern region of Veneto, not too far from Mila...

For an authentic glimpse of other-era Italy, a visit to the country’s small, sometimes very small hill towns (with populations under 1000 and requiring several clicks on Google Maps for their names to come into view), provides the chance to experience a way of life that seems like a post card from gentler times. Despite their size, these medieval a...

The square is the heart of every Italian city. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, many are created following very original projects. But some squares hide secrets in their own structure and their own name. Their form is shaped directly on the oldest buildings or on the pre-existing spaces, still preserved below. We literally walk over history,...

When you hear the name Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a few things spring to mind—and none of them are likely to involve Italian poet Dante Alighieri or opera. Of course there’s good reason for this, with Lecter’s exotic cooking ingredients superseding his gentler affectations. But even so, when author Thomas Harris first imagined how the character might mov...