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2010 SEMI-PRIVATE WALKING TOURS IN FLORENCE, ITALY
Posted by Violetta Buti in CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE, Semi-private walking tours in Florence on 13/02/2010
These tours are the best choise and value for single travelers who would like to benefit from quality yet spend less money than hiring a private tour guide on their own. These tours are designed for visitors of Florence who will join other travelers forming a small group and still staying away from mass tourism. Tours run weekley from the month of May to the month of October 2010.
Sightseeing/Walking Tours in Florence – Cost is 55 euro per person
Florence for Beginners and the David Tour – description of the tour
A three-hour walking tour which aims to give you an in-depth understanding of the ancient city with its magnificent Cathedral, the Duomo, and the neighbouring Baptistery which boasts Ghiberti’s equisite bronze doors.
We visit the Duomo where we can admire the arhitectural techiniques used by Brunelleschi to build the dome. Next on the tour are some of the city’s most stunning piazzas, starting with Santa Croce and its awe-inspiring church, home to some of Giotto’s most beautyiful frescoes.
Then we go to Piazza della Signoria, the city’s political center, both ancient and modern, where the imposing Palazzo Vecchio stands. Next we walk down to the Ponte Vecchio and take in its magnificent views, before heading for the Accademia Museum to see Michelangelo’s David.
Note: Fees for the Academy and Santa Croce church are not included in the price of the tour. With us you skip long lines as we already have reserved the tickets. We guarantee the tour with a minimum of 2 participants
Christmas time in Florence under the snow!
Posted by Violetta Buti in CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE on 19/12/2009
medieval city wall in Florence under the snow
On a cold day in Florence, Italy
- Travel agent Violetta Buti
Please click on the following pictures to enlarge them. I took them from Michelangelo Square this morning December 19th, 2009. This panoramic hill can be considered a natural terrace overlooking the city of Florence: best view guaranteed! The statue of David (it’s a copy, a famous copy anyway, the original is in the Academy museum) was covered with snow … so were the trees, the roofs, the dome, everything. It was hard to walk because of the snow around and many people– both locals and tourists – were here taking pictures of this amazing rare event. It probably snows once every five years in Florence.
Copy of David by Michelangelo on Michelangelo Square
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
- 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
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.
TRAVEL FAIR IN RIMINI, ITALY
OCTOBER 2009 TRAVEL FAIR AT RIMINI, ITALY
- THE FUTURE OF ITALIAN TOURISM AT TTG TRAVEL FAIR
THE LEADING B2B TRAVEL EVENT IN ITALY
The fair lasts 3 days and as I’m writing it’s still on. I was there yesterday, October 16th 2009. It’s considered the most important travel fair in Italy, it’s only open to the professionals operating in tourism: mainly tour operators, travel agencies, hotels. It is attended by thousands of business people: visitors, buyers, exhibitors. Exhibiting firms and buyers are from Italy and from many other countries around the world.
Here one also learns about the latest and most sofisticated sofware and technology to use.
There are conferences, interviews, clasees to attend for the travel agents who want to broaden their knowledge in tourism, novelties in the travel industry.
The financial crisis has hit heavily everywhere. Thanks to its incredible cultural heritage Italy will find a way out! CULTURE, ART, “ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE” are Italy’s best arguments and potentials for the coming years.
CULTURAL JEWISH EVENTS IN ITALY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th 2009
Posted by Violetta Buti in 2009 Summer Events, CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE, CULTURAL EVENTS IN FLORENCE on 30/08/2009
EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE
JEWISH CELEBRATIONS AND TRADITIONS IN ITALY
DISCOVER THE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL JEWISH HERITAGE IN TUSCANY, ITALY
The Travel Agency & Tour Company BEAUTY IN ITALY based in Florence, Italy, organizes private walking tours all year round.
Furthermore BEAUTY IN ITALY also customizes trips throughout Italy including accommodation, guided tours, museums bookings, drivers and excursions.
For the 10th time this year Italian authorities and Jewish communities dedicate the first week-end of September to the Jewish world and to all those who would like to learn more about the JEWISH CULTURAL HERITAGE in Italy.
“Scolanova” in the town of Trani, in the Puglia region, that had been ransformed into church for centuries, has gone back to beeing a synagogue again! This is also the reason why Trani is the starting point for the FESTIVAL OF JEWISH CULTURE that goes from September 6th to September 10th in the Apulia region (Puglia in Italian).
These are the events taking place in Florence on September 6th 2009:
10:00 am BRIDAL PROCESSIONin Piazza della Signoria and OPENING OF SYNAGOGUE & JEWISH MUSEUM in Via Farini, 6 – Tel.: +39 055 245252 – comebrfi@tin.it
10:30 am Welcoming speach by Jewish authorities
11:45 am Saldun Hall – Theatrical performance
12:00 pm Synagogue’s garden: Jewish cooking classes
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Jewish snacks and food typical of the Jewish Italian community
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Conversations about Hebraism
4:00 pm Synagogue’s garden: Presentation of some typical Jewish dishes / cooking classes
6:00 pm FINAL CONCERT in the Synagogue’s garden
DURING THIS DAY FROM 10:00 am to 5:30 pm:
Free guided tours through the Synagogue and the Jewish Museum of Florence
Documentary films about Jewish celebrations and traditions
Exhibition “Saperi e Sapori” cuisine in the Jewish cuisine
Bookshop
Stand with Jewish Music
Gift shop inside Synagogue
Stand with Jewish specialities
GUIDED TOUR TO THE MONUMENTAL JEWISH CEMETERY FROM 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Shutlle from Synagogue every half an hour
5:00 pm Ehibition about the project concerning the restauration of the monemental Jewish Cemetery
12:00 pm & 4:00 pm PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
SIENA
SYNAGOGUE in via delle Scotte, 14 – Tel.: +39 055 245252 – comebrfi@tin.it
JEWISH CEMETERY in Via del Linaiolo 17 – free guided tours to cemetery from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
PISA
SYNAGOGUE & CEMETERY in Via Palestro 24 – Tel.: +39 050 542580 com_ebraicapi@tin.it
Tour Company and Travel Agency in Florence
Posted by Violetta Buti in CITY TOURS OF FLORENCE, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE on 30/01/2009
 san gimignano volterra According to the American magazine “Travel & Leisure” Florence has been the number one preferred city to visit in the world! Many visitors have chosen to be accompanied by a licensed private tour guide: In fact, the decision to get to know Florence in the company of a personal guide is a very wise one.
“Beauty in Italy” is a tour company offering the assistance of private licensed guides for walking tours and sightseeing in Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Assisi, Venice, Rome, Vatican City, Naples, Pompeii and many other art cities and archaeological sites of interest in Italy. It seeks to avoid mass tourism: It specializes in focusing on small groups and individual travellers who desire to get to know and visit art cities in Italy. |
| We are a travel agency and customize trips for individual travelers , we book train tickets, hotels, etc. We also offer specialized services from professionals in tourism such as tour guides and drivers who will speak perfect English and will show you the different facets of our cities and regions.
Our clients are families, small groups of friends, members of companies, couples who just married or also a single person who doesn’t want to sightsee in Florence alone but would enjoy the company of a guide who speaks English. The purpose of this system of personalized tour guides is to offer a quality tourist service so that the visitor can enjoy the guided tours in English without hurry and being a part of a large group. We stay away from mass tourism.
Concerning Tuscany: In the whole Region of Tuscany, and surrounding areas of Florence, we can organize for you walking tours in important cities such as Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Arezzo, Pistoia, Prato, Carrara… all of them with outstanding art, landscapes, history, architecture, cuisine.
Environments: At the same time other so called “minor” towns that are not as well known by visitors from the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia…. like San Gimignano, Volterra, Montalcino, Bagnovignoni, Castiglion d’Orcia, Pienza, Montepulciano, Pietrasanta, Viareggio, Forte dei Marmi, etc., deserve to be discovered for their beauty and scenery: hills, mountains, coast, Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Our personalized services in English offer professionalism:
Services of counseling, tailor-made tours, information of special itineraries to enable the client to program any kind of walking tour, travel, personalized itinerary – with English speaking guides, tour leaders and drivers.
Licensed tour leaders with licenses granted by the Italian Municipalities who accompany you throughout Italy.
Licensed tourist guides with licenses granted by the Italian Municipalities who show you art cities in Italy.
Licensed drivers with licensed granted by the Italinan Municipalities driving Mercedes cars and other prestigious brands who can access the city centres because they hold a special permit where local drivers are not allowed.
Licensed hiking guides with licensd granted by the Italian Municipalities for walks, hikes, excursions for trips to rural areas in the middle of nature that are different from art tours in cities but still by specialized staff recognized by the Italian authorities.
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, French, German and all other languages on request.
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| We offer tourist services to individuals traveling to Italy who would like special attention to detail.
To capture the real soul of cities like Florence, Venice, Rome, or a country like Italy and to understand their true essence, it is worth it to choose quality services that we provide.
Why are you waiting to visit Italy? We are here for you! |
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