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This summer, Ferraro’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar offers a way to travel the flavors of Italy without leaving Las Vegas with its Summer Regional Menu Series. The next stop on virtual culinary tour spotlights Toscana—known as Tuscany in English. A region in central Italy, Tuscany’s world-renowned cuisine offers delicious and unique dishes that ar...

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Live Coffee Chat at Casa Belvedere: Italian Beaches/ Le Spiagge Italiane. Saturday, July 25th • 10:00am. Learn how to vacation as the Italians do! Guest speaker: Marco Evangelista, Director of Journeys by Central Holidays. Each Coffee Chat guest is entered to win a specialty gift courtesy of SI-Espresso! REGISTER HERE. Once you register, you will r...

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Arriving in this tower-topped town in central Tuscany is always going to be a visual treat, regardless of the season. While the warmer months provide much-photographed scenes of surrounding sunflower fields, arguably the best time to visit San Gimignano is in the autumn or spring, bypassing the summer heat and high-season hordes of tourists. Howeve...

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Waiting to return to visit the huge Italian cultural heritage, several major museums in Italy have decided to make their spaces and collections accessible in a virtual way: what you only need is a smartphone, a tablet or a computer to immerse yourself in the beauty of art comfortably from home. Don't know which museum to start with? We recommend st...

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As European tourist attractions go, Florence is a power player. Ever since Enlightenment-era aristocrats made Florence an essential stop on the Grand Tour, it has consistently ranked among the most visited cities in the world. T+L readers are on the same page. In this year’s World’s Best Awards, Florence was voted the No. 1 city in Europe — beating...

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Between the crowning of a new Top Chef champion and the magnificent Tuscan setting, one would think that the season 17 finale needed little more to sate viewers’ appetites. One would be wrong, as a guest at the final meal nearly stole the show in the best possible way. I don’t think it would be a stretch to suggest that 8th generation butcher Dario...

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Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini interviews Stefania Ippoliti, head of both the Tuscan Film Commission and the Tuscan Media Library that puts her at the center of all pre-production, production, and research concerning film production in Tuscany. She will talk about her experiences in the field as well as take questions from NYU students cu...

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In just a few weeks, Liam Neeson's "Made in Italy", a heartwarming father-son dramedy set in the Tuscan countryside will be released. The film, directed by James D’Arcy, comes just in time for those dreaming of a rustic summer vacation in Italy, candlelight dinners and a bit of family drama. Actors Liam Neeson and his actual son, Micheál Richardson...

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Historical, Biblical and mythological black figures are depicted in works such as portraits of the kings of Abyssinia and Ethiopia, painted in the sixteenth century by Cristofano dell’Altissimo for Cosimo I de’ Medici as part of a series of paintings dedicated to illustrious men of the time; Albrecht Dürer’s Adoration of the Magi, in which one of t...

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Florence, Italy, is one the world’s most beautiful open-air museums. The birthplace of the Renaissance, it's home to priceless works of art. But with coronavirus keeping tourists away, the city of Florence has a problem: Preserving history isn’t free...so what happens if nobody is around to pay for it.

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