Italians call them 5 Terre; They are Five jewels carved along the eastern Ligurian coast: Riomaggiore , Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza e Monterosso. These villages were once isolated from the mountains and the sea and, as today their economy was based on fishing and viticulture. Their name "5Terre" has become synonymous with natural environment art, history, culture and UNESCO heritage … [Read more...]
Firenze and Venezia
The first day in Florence will include a visit to one of the richest churches of works of art (Giotto, Masaccio, Ghirlandaio), the most beautiful streets and squares, the Medieval Quarter and the internal visit to a palace of those times. S. Maria Novella - Also mentioned by Boccaccio in his "Decamerone", it belonged to the Dominican order that wanted to have it rebuilt on a previous church in … [Read more...]
To get to know the marble near Florence and Carrara
Day 1 - Florence Museo dell'Opera del Duomo In 1501 in this same place Michelangelo Buonarroti began working on the David which, not well sketched by Agostino di Duccio, had been abandoned for years in the courtyard of the building. The room was used as a repository for numerous works of art, marble decorations from monuments and sculpture models submitted to trial … [Read more...]
