Italy Travel Notes

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Often consider “Rome Light”, [...]

Today, I’ll give you six great attractions to see when you’re visiting Florence, Italy. When you visit Florence, bring some great walking shoes, as you’ll be doing a lot of walking throughout the often-crowded city. Also, try to visit in the spring or winter, which are cooler months.
Bargello
This is a fabulous art museum that was [...]

By Elena Farinelli
Florence, Italy, like any international tourist destination, needs a little “know how” to get around without spending more than what you wish.
Generally speaking tourists are considered an easy target for those merchants who are lucky enough to have their stands and shops on the tourist routes.
On the other hand, when we’re touring around [...]

By Simone Ficozzi
Florence is a city full of history, where it’s easy to be charmed by what surrounds you and do not notice some little corners, minor ones, that make you rediscover the city and the character of Florentine people.
One of these is in Borgo Ognissanti at number 12, where is located the reversed balcony. [...]

By Alberto Scarsi
Florence! The heart of the art! Located in the middle of Tuscany, it has represented for centuries the cradle of art, in all its forms and expressions. This enormous and priceless heritage has attracted people from all over the world, making of Florence one of the most popular tourist destinations. This has [...]

Michele De Capitani
Among academies, libraries and museums, religious monuments, churches, civil architecture and buildings you will experience you really are in a treasure hunting. For this reason not only tourists, or backpackers but prevalently international students or even international volunteers are choosing this city for their academic courses, stages and studies.

Well, to start, we mention [...]

You want to see the “Athens of Italy”? It’s none other, but Florence! Florence is hyperbolically beautiful city, lying on the Arno River. Florence, the capital city of Tuscany, is the city of beauties, lilies, and fragrances, and destination for art and architectural magnificence. The city is the cultural, artistic and architectural gem of Italy, [...]

By Michael Hanna
Italy’s ideal climate, animated people and passion for cuisine make it a perfect destination for independent travellers seeking much more than a one dimensional package holiday.
Choosing where to start a trip of discovery in Italy is difficult with so many must sees but Florence, as the capital of Tuscany and the birthplace [...]

You can define Florence as the city of “pleasance, elegance, excellence, opulence, magnificence….” In fact, you may need lot more beautiful adjectives to describe the city completely. Certainly, Florence has floral pleasance, architectural elegance, artistic excellence, cultural opulence, and renaissancial magnificence.

Florence is one of the most fantastic cities of Italy. The heart of Tuscany resting [...]

by Jakob Jelling
The city of Florence, or Florentia according to its Italian name, was founded in the first century B.C. by the Romans. This way, it has passed through a really great amount of different periods and époques which have caused different influences on it, and meeting this town and its historic buildings can be [...]