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Florence Winter Park

Starting on October 28, and continuing all the way to March 6, the Florence Winter Park returns to Obi Hall. A perennial favorite, the 4th edition brings ice-skating, tubing, and skiing to the banks of the Arno. One can lace up their skates at the newly designed ice-skating rink which has been divided into two areas. There is a small rink specifically designed for beginners or kids, and a primary larger rink – enabling both amateurs, and ex-NHL hockey players laid up in Tuscany to share the same space. The small rink also plays host to the fantastically crazy sport of Broomball (hockey without skates), and families can also book it for birthdays or holidays, ensuring your entire kids’ party is on the verge of falling down at any moment. Also returning is the popular snow-tube track, where one can plummet down a snow-filled ramp on an inner-tube, reaching speeds fast enough to take out the kid who pushed you in the hall at school.

by Redazione
Culture Life Tuscany

Piazza della Passera The Florentine little Montmartre

“I would like to have an ice cream, not because I am hungry, rather it is more a whim, exactly what I should avoid given that I am on a diet” “Stop with this diet Marti! If I were a man, I would lose my mind for you! I’ll take you to one of my places where you can find the best ice cream in Florence” So I ended up in Piazza della Passera, in that corner of the city of Santo Spirito neighbourhood. We had passed Ponte Vecchio and the more we moved away the more I had the feeling that the splendour of Florence, that purely tourist and prêt-à-porter, turned into something more intimate, into a Florentine beauty, little noisy and celebrated, we ended up in that Piazza that my friend Sofia considered one of her places.

by Redazione
Food & Wine Student Life in Florence Tuscany

Great excitement for Bite Into Florence

The initiative BITE INTO FLORENCE organized by Florence’s Chamber of Commerce, successfully continues with the promotion of typical DOP and IGP products among the foreign students that frequent the universities for foreigners in Florence. There are five schools that already accepted the proposal of the Chamber, realized in collaboration with the Consortium for the protection of wines Chianti and Chianti Classico and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Toscano IGP. The tasting sessions realized in the last few months led by professional olive oil tasters and sommeliers, have enabled students of Richmond University, New York University, Florida State University, James Madison University and Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, to learn more about two local products of the Florentine territory, the oil and the wine. During the tastings, and with the help of slides and films, practical information were given to the foreign students on how to distinguish the positive and the negative characteristics of the products, in order to understand the information on the labels, what they mean, for example, the name “reserve” or “bottled at the source”; more than that the students are also given flyers with more information about the cultivation of the product and its varieties. So, a series of “instructions” are given out in order to allow the student to appreciate these products without abuse, particularly when it comes to alcohol products.

by Redazione
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In this issue Florence is … Novembre - Decembre 2015

Exactly two year have passed since the first issue of Florence is You! published in its printed form on December 2013, and how much it has changed since then... Browsing the printed issues that have followed, with my dear friend and our patient graphic designer Manuela, we smile when we are surprised to use the same expression, which, referring to the newspaper, basically seems to say “it has changed so much”. And it is true, because Florence is You! was brought up lovingly by our hands, our ideas, our will, and is the result of the devotions of so many people: our writers and collaborators who do their best to accomplish all that is needed to make the newspaper more and more rich in content and new proposals; readers and friends that have contacted us to receive Florence is You! and it is thanks to their precious suggestions that we are now distributing it in more than 400 places; our partners, some of whom have been with us on this adventure since the beginning and that have immediately shown great faith sustaining what has become “our newspaper” and deciding to tell their stories through its pages.

by Redazione
Life Tuscany

The “Giardino delle Rose” A fragment of urban heaven

There is a place in the splendid Florence wrapped by an atmosphere of strange magic, a sort of enchanted garden, located under Piazzale Michelangelo. The simple chance made me discover this urban heaven. It had been a boring day. I decided to end it walking until Piazzale Michelangelo. I never reached the goal I had set, at halfway I stopped near a terrace. There were some little benches very pleasant. On one of these a bronze man was sat, work of Jean-Michel Folon. On the right side, exactly in front of Folon man, there was a frame which enclosed a part of the Florentine panorama.

by Redazione
Life Tuscany

The beauty of San Gimignano

San Gimignano is a small, medieval town in the province of Siena, Tuscany. Driving from Florence, the thousand-year old towers of the city, wink from behind the hills, sending out an invitation to step into a perfectly preserved medieval world. The foundation of San Gimignano dates back to ancient times, the first historical document mentioning the name of the town dating from August 929

by Redazione
Life Tuscany

One of the most beautiful itinerary in Tuscany

The seaside is not far from Florence. The season starts in May and ends in October if the weather allows it. If you take the road north, for Versilia for example, it’s only an hour away drive on the highway. If instead you want to enjoy a more beautiful sea, that even if it takes longer to reach, the itinerary is one of the most beautiful in Tuscany and the journey takes a little longer. The satisfaction afterwards is beyond compare. One of these itineraries to reach the Tyrrhenian coastline, south of Piombino, the one of Follonica and Castiglione della Pescaia, in Maremma and along the old Volterrana for Montespertoli

by Redazione

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