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World Water Day
Just for today, we wanted to expand our watery horizons by focusing on something beyond just the shores of Italy, to wade out into unknown seas, awash with wonder but also with worries for many...
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Habemus Papam Franciscum: All your Pope Francis questions answered!
When white smoke emerged from the Vatican chimneys to signal the selection of a new Pope, loud cheers went out, church bells all around Italy sang out a joyous tune and there was palpable excitement...
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Canti Di Maggio – Mayday Traditional Festivities Tuscany, Italy
May Day is a tradition still alive today in Tuscany, Italy as an allegory of the return to life and rebirth. The magic-propitiatory rite is often done during a questing where, in exchange for gifts...
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The Greats Create – Fashion in Florence
For such a small city, the number of great artists and important historical figures emanating from Florence is astounding. At various times throughout its history, artists including Michelangelo,...
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Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ sets Florence ablaze!
‘Inferno’, the latest novel by Dan Brown, is set in Florence Robert Langdon returns, treading through the Florence city streets as he deciphers the codes and mysteries in Dan Brown’s latest...
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Inferno: Vasari, Dante & the Battle of Marciano
Vasari’s Battle of Marciano in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Nowadays Tuscany is synonymous with relaxing vacations involving wine tastings, long lunches in a hilltop town and meandering about the most...
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Enoteca: the great Italy wine tradition
It is quite normal for Italians to take a long lunch break to enjoy a nice lunch of pasta followed by a meat main, usually accompanied by local wine. Now, if it’s so common for Italians to have a...
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Dan Brown ‘Inferno’ Inspires Artviva Inferno Florence Tour – See AFP NEWS Video
Journalist Dario Thuburn interviewed Artviva about the impact Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ will have on Florence tourism after Artviva launched the first and original Dan Brown Inferno Tour. See the short...
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Calcio Storico: Florence’s toughest footballers… in those trousers?!
Florence is getting ready for the latest series of Calcio Storico (also known as Calcio Fiorentino), a unique sport which originated in Tuscany in the 1500s. ‘Calcio’ translates to both ‘kick’ and...
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Dolce & Gabbana sentenced to prison time
Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to jail time for tax evasion in Italy! Next year’s great fashion trend may well be prison chic! Top fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been sentenced...
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Top Travel Tips for Italy Trips
Visiting Italy? We want to help you ensure your immersion into the Italian culture doesn’t turn into a culture clash. To help people who are planning a trip to Italy ensure they make the most their...
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Learning Italian: Italy’s 3 magic words
Travelling to Italy, you may wish to be prepared with a few key words of Italian to get you by. Of course there is ‘Grazie’ (thank you) – making sure to also pronounce the e at the end, like grazi-è,...
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Fairytale wedding in Italy… just not as you imagined!
We love sharing great Italy stories on our tours and thought we’d also share this funny Italian fable, How the Devil Married Three Sisters. It featured in Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick...
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Italy’s Redeeming Feature: Festa del Redentore
Italy sure knows how to put on a good party. And so they should, given that many of the best events in Italy date back to Renaissance times so they have, after all, had a lot of practice! One of the...
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INFERNO: from Dante to Dan Brown
Dante’s Inferno as depicted in a fresco inside Florence’s Duomo Dante’s Inferno has become the basis for the latest Dan Brown novel of the same name. Dan Brown’s Inferno takes its name from the first...
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Top Travel Tips for Italy Trips: How to Pack
Packing advice, tips for travelling to Italy, travelling to Italy Packing well can mean the difference for a great holiday in Italy, which is why we have put together some travel advice for packing and...
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Packing Tips for Italy Trips – Light is a Delight!
Stairs of a B&B in Florence where the elevator starts from the 1st floor! Travelling in Italy, one thing you’ll notice beyond on all the historical buildings and collection after collection of...
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Click to view slideshow. A great way to travel around Italy is by overnight ferry. We recently travelled this way ourselves and as we watched the sunset, we were lucky enough to be serenaded by a group...
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Cerca Trova: Palazzo Vecchio, Battle of Marciano & Vasari’s hidden message
A close-up of one of the Vasari’s masterpieces mentioned in Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ If you’re a fan of Dan Brown, then one must-visit location to visit in Florence is the Palazzo Vecchio situated in...
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Bishops check mates: Vatican survey on relationships
In a week in which Italians have been caught redefining the concept of a ‘quickie’ by seeking fast-track divorces abroad and Pope Francis has suspended the so-called ‘Bishop of Bling’, the Catholic...
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