Florence’s grandest hotels occupy the same real estate the city’s merchant princes once did — Renaissance palazzi on the Arno, frescoed salons, and rooftop terraces that turn a sunset drink into the best view in Tuscany. Here is where the city’s most...
The fastest way to understand Tuscany is to cook it. A private cooking class here is not a tourist demonstration — it is a hands-on morning or evening with a local chef, rolling fresh pasta by hand, learning the logic of a cuisine built on simplicity, and finishing...
Your Florence concierge has one rule for the perfect Italian souvenir: buy it where it is made. In Florence and across Tuscany, that means alabaster carved in Volterra, leather stitched by hand in Santa Croce sull’Arno, and a truffle-laced dinner at a table with...
Alcune storie meritano di essere lette per intero, non solo raccontate. “Una notte a Firenze sotto Alessandro dei Medici” è un romanzo storico di Alexandre Dumas padre (1868, oggi di pubblico dominio, testo per gentile concessione di Liber Liber),...
There is a small ritual every Florentine performs, one every discerning guest should learn before stepping out for the day: resting a hand on the bronze snout of Il Porcellino and letting fortune decide to walk beside you for the rest of your stay. Florence is far...