Archive for November, 2009

PRESSING OLIVES @ VILLA DI MAIANO PROPERTY IN FLORENCE, ITALY

Posted by Violetta Buti in Cooking classes, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE, Olive Oil tasting on 14/11/2009

ENTRANCE OF VILLA DI MAIANO 2_2102PRESSING THE OLIVES_2093FINAL OLIVE OIL_2098WELCOME TO FATTORIA VILLA DI MAIANO IN FLORENCE!
PRESSING OF OLIVES IS DONE IN A VERY PROFESSIONAL WAY AT THE VILLA DI MAIANO. HERE ARE  THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF OLIVES’ PRESSING:
In the beginning the olives are being conveyed to a machine that will divide the olives from the leaves. Then olives will be washed and crushed to separate the pulp from the actual olive oil. The final color is green/yellowish with a very savory and distinctive taste: just right for an olive oil taste that can be done now or in any other time of the year. Have a look at the photo gallery, the pictures were taken on November 14th, 2009.Through Beauty In Italy you can book an olive tasting, a tour in cross-country vehicle through the property or you can choose to stay at one of the houses or apartments which are part of the Villa di Maiano property.

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BANKING & ART IN FLORENCE, ITALY, IN THE 3rd MILLENNIUM

Posted by Violetta Buti in CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE, Contemporary architecture, Contemporary sculptors, EXHIBITS IN ITALY on 10/11/2009

Contemporary Artists activ in Italy

Contemporary Artists activ in Italy

Impruneta terracotta vases
Impruneta terracotta vases

On the last 3rd of October of 2009 the Florentines were offered a free guided tour of the new Italian Bank “Cassa di Risparmio”  situated in an area of Florence called “Novoli” where many new buildings such as the new Court and University of Florence are being build.

As always with the Italians art and design are an important mark of this new building. At the back

Italian Garden in Tuscany
Italian Garden in Tuscany

we find a formal garden created with the typical mediterranean flora that one can usually find along the coast of Italy. As an additional Tuscan touch we can admire ligned up terracotta vases with lemon trees that cannot be missed in the usual Toscana garden or park.

IGOR MITORAJ is a living contemporary Polnish artist whose works can be seen inside the Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace in Florence, in Greve in Chianti, in Pietrasanta near the Tuscan coast where he opened his atelier years ago and now in the garden and inside the building of the new “Cassa di Risparmio” in Florence.

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