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Florence B/B rental in country house
10/27/2020

Three day stay at Florence Villa Violetta

At only 8 miles/12 km from Florence center – in a perfect location to realax – surrounded by olive groves and yet so close to the city – try this fabulous TUSCANY EXPERIENCE for up to 4 persons. All services are private. Included are: 3 nights accommodation with breakfast Pick-up at Florence train station and transfer to property – transfer back on day of departure Half-day walking tour of Florence included transfers in and out 1-day...

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Ferrara
10/27/2020

Ferrara, Italy

You could visit Italy a 100 times and still not have seen everything! Ferrara in the north of Italy offers a magic atmosphere, friendly people, and so many outstanding monuments  that made me wonder why I had non vesited this city before! In the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance Ferrara enjoyed its  gratest splendor, especially thanks to the dinasty of the ESTE family. Their power lasted until the end of the sixteenth century and...

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art deco in Florence
10/24/2020

The Carnielo Gallery

Rinaldo Carnielo was an academic sculptor mainly active in nineteenth-century Florence. His personal collection, mainly casts, but also finished works or preparatory models, is located in a building that was the sculptor's home-studio, bequeathed by his son Enzo Carnielo to the Municipality. The whole area of ​​Piazza Savonarola where the gallery is located hosted, especially in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, ateliers and artist studios...

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walking tours of Siena
10/19/2020

New and exceptional opening of the Floor of the Siena Cathedral

November 4-26, 2020 December 10-20, 2020 This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the influx of foreigners and Italians to the cities of art was lower. For the first time Siena offers us again in the autumn 2020 the opportunity to admire a unique work of its kind, an extraordinary floor, made of 56 inlays according to the technique of marble mosaic inlay and graffito executed by the most renowned artists of a period that embraces about...

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Contemporary art in Florence
07/23/2020

EXHIBITS IN FLORENCE - Tomás Saraceno

Let the spider guide us! Tomás Saraceno’s exhibit is taking place at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from February 22nd to November 2nd, 2020. In the beautiful frame of one of the most elegant renaissance palaces built in the second half of the 15th century we are conducted through courtyard and exhibition halls to a visionary contemporary planet where it is necessary to shift from the idea of ‘man at the centre of the world’ to the...

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