What do you know about Easter in Italy and Tuscany? Are you aware that Easter is here the second most important religious holiday after Christmas, and many traditions are related to its celebrations? I’ll try to open a window on this period of the year and give some suggestions for…
Look at this picture of men whose faces are covered by wired cowls, in the darkness lighted up by torches: guess where we took it. In Sicily? In Andalucia? Actually, this style of Easter Week processions are typical of Southern Italy and Spain, but in this case, we didn’t have…
Spring has officially started, and is one of the best periods of the year to visit Tuscany: colourful flowers, intense green hills, daylight getting longer, pleasant temperatures make this season the perfect choice for visiting the towns and the central areas of Tuscany, that in Summer can get too hot…
Tuscany is acclaimed everywhere for its superb wines, but in the last years the interest for beers and brewery has arisen both in the field of production and in that of consumption in our region. We confess that we love beer and we are happy for it: although we are…
The hill town of Cortona, in eastern Tuscany, is one of the places I love more, in fact the first post of this blog was written after a lovely afternoon we spent in this splendid place in the Province of Arezzo. Rich in history, culture, things to do and see,…
