From June 15 to 24, Florence will host the traditional Calcio Storico Fiorentino.
Four teams, representing the city’s four main districts, will compete in Santa …

There is no doubt that anyone coming to Italy is fascinated by art (60% of the world’s artistic heritage is in Italy) and by the beauty and diversity …

Have you ever asked yourself why hotels are classified with the stars?
Who invented this system (now widely known and accepted) to enable us to understand …

Many guests that come to stay in our hotel ask me what its name means.
The question is not strange because it is a long and …

How do you line up in Italy?
First of all we must understand what we mean with the word “coda” (translation for line/queue).
“Coda” in Italian refers …

Among the treasures of Florence there is certainly the Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, the big mansion that Michelozzo was building for Cosimo …

I met Wessel Huisman at the hotel reception. I knew he was exposing at the Florence Biennale and so I asked him how it was …

Being a dwarf in the Renaissance was certainly not easy. Abused from an early age, they were often sold to circuses to be shown to …

This is a video that one of our guests has done and we would like to share it with you.

Palazzo Medici is the house that Cosimo the Elder asked Michelozzo to build since 1444.
His business was going very well and so he could afford to build a …