April 13, 2009
Author: Stefano
Stefano is a native from Florence but with a quarter of Sienese blood in his DNA and many years living in Pisa is a true Tuscan. He is still learning that his homeland has many corners and hidden gems he has to discover, ones he particularly enjoys seeing from the saddle of his bike.
April 11, 2009
View of the Cinque Terre coastline with Vernazza poking out at center We spent last weekend at Cinque Terre, planning to hike and visit all five of the towns along the beautiful coast that give the name to the area. Even if the Cinque Terre are in Liguria, we are just a few kilometers out…
April 9, 2009
As you probably already know, on the night of April 6 a strong earthquake (5.8 on the Richter scale) hit the region of Abruzzo in central Italy. The medieval city of L’Aquila, the region’s capital, was hit hard and other minor cities around it, like Onna, have been almost completely destroyed. The buildings were too…
January 30, 2009
Today I read on il Corriere della Sera (see the article in Italian) that Lucca‘s center-right city government has passed a local law that will not allow the opening of new restaurants preparing dishes “of a different ethnic origin”. So no more Kebab or Couscous shops at least within the old city walls, the most…
November 18, 2008
We finally made it! After several long and intense months of work, we launched a new version of our Discover Tuscany Travel Guide a few days ago! We completely reorganized the content and navigation, added new sections and new pictures and integrated this Blog and the Forum. The Florence section is growing so much that…
October 22, 2008
We have just returned from a short vacation in Maremma: we decided at the very last moment to leave on this trip, taking advantage of the warm sun and nice days this mid-October was giving us. We had never visited the upper part of Maremma close to Monte Amiata, between the Tuscan coast and Val…
September 19, 2008
Have you ever heard about Geocaching? We hadn’t until a good friend of ours told us about it a few months ago, knowing how much we love to go hiking and discovering new places. So we found out that Geocaching is a treasure hunt game played all around the world by a huge community of…
September 2, 2008
We danced once again with Compagnia la Giostra during our last visit to Volterra Medieval Festival ! View and listen to this happy (medieval?) music ! 🙂
September 1, 2008
Here is a little video I made during a show by the flag throwers of Massa Marittima in Volterra, during the Medieval Festival!
August 29, 2008
We just got back from the year AD 1398 as did the hundreds of people that attended the medieval festival in Volterra this past weekend, the city’s largest annual event. We also got back to work after our short holiday, and that made it especially hard to return to modern times!On Sunday August 24th for…
