That gigantic holm oak that safeguards Villa di Belmonte for more...
On the crest of the hill that divides Grassina from Antella begins the park of Villa di Belmonte. At the panoramic viewpoint overlooking Florence,...
Quarate, amongst the secrets of the tower and a character honored...
Quarate is a village surrounded by extensive olive groves, probably of Roman origin. It gave name, around the year 1000 A.D., to the powerful...
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.
They formed a...
The Cànova of wine (and others): in San Donato in Collina...
The term Cànova, now completely disappeared, would signify "the shop where they would sell retail wine, oil and other essentials". The Canabae were shacks...
The “Montesone cross” amongst the myth of the Holy Land and...
On a rocky outcrop in the middle of the woods, facing a panorama of incomparable beauty over the countryside that slopes down to the...
Massimo Casprini tells us all the secrets of Bagno a Ripoli
They will be called “Racconti in breve” (Short Stories) and will be stories, anecdotes and trivia which will tell us about the Bagno a Ripoli...
Emilia Peruzzi and the salon that reunited the best political and...
Emilia, born Toscanelli in 1827, married Ubaldini Peruzzi, one of the most important figures of the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy, Ambassador, Minister...
Antilla, Mompillo and a love story behind the origin of the...
Following the course of the Isone stream, after the Antella cemetery, you come into a valley just below San Donato in Collina which still...
Eternal youth and immortality, the myth that accompanies the fountain of...
Going on holiday in the sixteenth century was an exclusive privilege of the Florentine nobility who, already in spring, abandoned the city – which...
The Medici, a Cardinal and the Lappeggi villa (which was to...
In 1667, the Grand Duke Cosimo II gave a gift to his brother, Cardinal Francesco Maria Medici. He assigned him the Lappeggi villa. The...
