Written by MagdaDH on November 22, 2009
- The Rough Guide to Tuscany & Umbria, by Jonathan Buckley & Mark Ellingham***I sang the praises of the general Rough Guide to Italy elsewhere, but revisiting again this regional guide in the process of writing...
Written by MagdaDH on October 28, 2009
- We spent a week in Pisa in December 2007, and I have no idea why I haven't written anything about this part of Italy before. I fell in love with Pisa after a one-night stand...
Written by Ginaru on November 23, 2008
- During the week of August 17th - 24th, while many Italians were still on holiday for Ferragosto - a few artists from Phoenix took in the Chianti Countryside with their eyes, their paints, pastels and...
Written by paigey121 on August 6, 2007
- I found a website that does Tuscany tours on a modern Vespa near Siena, Italy. I thought of how to steal this idea and work it into my travels. I found a great "Drive through...
Written by moatway on May 2, 2004
- And the winner of the prize for the best hill-town in central Italy…
If you’re driving down from Pisa on S429, the drive into town on a winding road through Chianti country is beautiful. There are...
Written by actonsteve on December 26, 2004
- Machiavelli. Niccolo Machiavelli The name, for over five-hundred years, has come to represent skulduggery and political maneuvering .
The termMachiavellian is still used in newspaper articles and fiction to denote one who engages in machinations...
Written by actonsteve on December 26, 2004
- "I will show you the Piazza della Signoria...and then we go and visit Armani..."
The price that my friend Nicola Pavese consented to for showing us around Florence was that he was allowed to cane the...
Written by actonsteve on December 26, 2004
- You remember the scene in the film...
The soundtrack starts with Puccini's 'Sogno di Doretta',, the shutters are thrown open, and the audience sees the magnificent cityscape of Florence for the first time. The tangerine octagonal...
Written by actonsteve on December 26, 2004
- I first got to see the famous Torre Pendente (Leaning Tower) at 1am.
We had just arrived in Pisa and were eating late. A friend of ours, Alessio, suggested seeing the Field of Miracles before we...
Written by actonsteve on December 26, 2004
- Florentine proverb: "Meglio un morto a casa che un Pisano al'uschio!" ("Better a death in the family than a Pisan at the door!")
Pisan reply: "E che Dio to contenda!" ("And may god grant your wish!")
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