Tips and curiosity about the tourist destinations of Tuscany

Gardens- secret sanctuaries in the heart of Florence

Cristiano Brizzi
5/9/2018 12:00:00 AM

Pitti Palace and Boboli, Bardini, Iris, Rose garden

Here at Slow tour Tuscany we say smell evokes memories more vividly than any other sense. Here in Florence memories are imprinted on the cityscape, brought to multisensory life as spring arrives and the city’s magnificent gardens and hidden green zones begin to bloom, revealing stories in unexpected corners.

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Caravaggio and the Medici in the spotlight at the Uffizi

Cristiano Brizzi
4/10/2018 12:00:00 AM

A controversial artist on the run for murder and a cardinal-turned-Grand Duke with a flair for drama: it’s little wonder that Caravaggio and Ferdinando I de’ Medici are the forces behind the artist’s extraordinary Head of Medusa (1597/98), now a showpiece of the eight sumptuous new rooms dedicated to Caravaggio at the Uffizi Gallery.

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