How do you line up in Italy?
First of all we must understand what we mean with the word "coda" (translation for line/queue).

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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 the Elder since 1444.
The chapel is by definition a private, devotional space, that here the Medici family created around 1459.

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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 going.

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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 people as monsters and obliged to do the most degrading performances.
Some of them had a better life when they became members of a court and some even succeeded to become advisers of their Lord.

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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 house for his family, leaving his previous one that belonged to his in-laws and his wife in the Santa Croce district.

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In the open-air museum that is the Piazza della Signoria, inside the Loggia dei Lanzi, you can admire the beautiful Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini.

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Do you want to have fun in the kitchen?
Then there is no doubt you must have a copy of "Artusi".

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The word "tempera" comes from "stemperare" that in Italian means dissolve the pigments of colour with water.

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Finally spring has arrived, bringing with it its many colorful and perfumed flowers.
Recently flowers are not just used to decorate but  also to eat!

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The Mona Lisa is doubtless the most famous painting in the world and it is at the Louvre.
Italians and especially Florentines find hard to accept that it is in France. Why should it?

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