Toscana & Chianti News
The Treasure of the Florentine Fashion House
- Category: Luxury
To celebrate its 90th birthday, Florence's fashion house opened its own museum in Palazzo della Mercanzia, in Piazza della Signoria, in Florence. "The Gucci Museum not only looks after and celebrates the most significant moments in our history, but also becomes an official token of its origins, development and cultural influence."
"Not only business"
- Category: Business
A large proportion of his work is also spent on Tuscany's development. We're talking about infrastructure, which affects the visitors and guests in our region. Luigi Fici, Full Professor of Corporate Economics, Lecturer at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo and University of Florence...
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ARNO
- Category: Focus
“On the other side of the Arno, that big pile of houses between the left river bank, Chiesa del Carmine and the slopes of Bellosguardo; from on high, like buttresses, they surround the Pitti Palace and the Medici bastions; the Arno flows there along its widest bed, discovering the wonderful, gentle and ample treatment that laps the Cascine.”
Vasco Pratolini
A "very short" supply chain completely located in the Mugello area. "Pane del Mugello" [Mugello bread], which started out as a project in 2005, is made from scratch within a radius of a few miles.
It's common knowledge that Tuscans like drinking wine in the company of others and the long history of Tuscan wine-making has left a multitude of old traditions in its wake...
There's a wonderful, little Florence in Germany too. We're talking about Dresden, a city that has always had a double bond with Tuscany, the result of a twinning that was agreed in 1978 and still exists today.
The elegant Ballo del Giglio, which was held a year ago in Palazzo Vecchio’s glorious Salone dei Cinquecento, plans to replicate its 2010 success in a brand-new setting.
