“Social choir” of the Grassina Philharmonic and Choir Society of Mutual Aid
Coop21 Social Cooperative
Description
Schiacciata con l’uva (Grape flatbread)
We can find the “best recipe for schiacciata con l’uva” in any Florentine family.
Butternut squash parmigiana
Elisa and Laura advise us a new way to reinvent the classic eggplant parmigiana, using the butternut squash, typical of this season.
Autumn Appetizer
Laura and Elisa offer us a tasty appetizer to enhance our autumn dinners with a prized ingredient like porcini mushrooms.
Let yourself be overwhelmed by the goodness of Elisa and Laura’s Monte Bianco
When Laura and I (Elisa) spoke of which Christmas dessert we preferred I was reminded of one of the few cakes that my mother loved to make us for the holidays.
The Case San Romolo and those miraculous apparitions…
Case San Romolo (San Romolo Houses) is still a small conglomerate lost in the woods near Villamagna, but in the nineteenth century it was a place far away from the world inhabited by poor farmers and shepherds.
The Marquis Feroni amongst the slave trade and that exile in the Villa di Ripalta
Many will have wondered what is that small hut on the wall at the corner of Via della Nave and Via delle Sentinelle.
The castles of Villamagna and medieval telegraphy
In ancient times, the hills overlooking the Arno Valley on the left bank of its course were crowned with castles and towers.
The 1895 earthquake which hit Grassina and Antella
At 20.55 on 18 May 1895, in the area between Grassina and Antella, a strong “roar” was heard – as some witnesses reported. A terrible earthquake of high intensity had struck: grade 8 on the Mercalli scale.
