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Keep cool during the summer in Florence

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Visiting Florence in July and August can be strengthening because it's hot. But there is no need to be scared because the city offers many opportunities for refreshment in its many pools.


The opera in Florence

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Florence is during 1400 and 1500 at the peak of its success. It is the most important, beautiful and incredible city of the world because it concentrates within its walls many great minds, perhaps the most brilliant of the time.


July and August in Florence: what do we eat?

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What do Florentines eat during the hot summer months?


Summer dishes have to be quick to prepare, cold, nutritious  and particularly refreshing.

 


The star and the hotel in Florence

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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 fairly easily and quite immediately what kind of structure there is in front of us?


Alexandra La Pierre: Artemisia. A woman painter in Baroque Florence.

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Artemisia is a novel and a biography at the same time about the life and the work of the controversial figure of the 1600 painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

 


The Palio of Siena

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In Siena July 2nd and August  16th there is the Palio, the world’s most famous bareback horse race. Some might think that it is organized for  the many tourists who descend on the city for this occasion. Nothing could be more wrong! The Palio belongs to Sienese people DNA.  It is and has always been this way.


The concept of food in Italy

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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 of nature (in short distance you can have mountains, hills and sea). But nobody misses the opportunity to taste our food, finally in the original version.


The flagwavers and Florence

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In all major festivals of Florence the most important attraction is represented by the show of the flagwavers.
It 's really a pleasure to see the flags moving  and fluttering in the air!
 

 

I realised that to say that our hotel is located in the city centre is not enough and since this is a very common question I learned to better specify.Now I say that we are no more than 10 minutes walk from the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the main train station of Santa Maria Novella in the district of San Lorenzo.


                                                                   

 

Forence was founded by the Romans in 59 BC when Julius Caesar through the Lex Iulia, decided to reward with lots of ground the soldiers of his many wars.


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