Tuscany 2025 - things to see and do when you visit Tuscany

As my ever attentive and intelligent readers will know, from time to time I draw attention to books of Tuscan interest that seem to me to be...

How to get around Tuscany is a bit of a vexed question. Between the larger towns, there is an excellent rail service with frequent trains ...

Il Palazzo di Bianca Cappello During the first half of the 15 C, at Via Maggio 26, in the Oltrarno area of Florence, there was a palazzo bel...

Colle di Val d'Elsa is a town of 20,000 people located above the valley of the river Elsa on the route of the ancient Via Francigena ...

The Italian word " pieve " means "parish church" in English, and the pievi of Chianti are in many ways a similar pheno...

The newly renovated Vasari Corridor will open to all in May 2024. As my always intelligent and attentive readers will know, access to the V...

The 25th of March is the ancient Florentine New Year's Day and, in fact, it marked the beginning of the new year in Florence until as re...

Winter in Tuscany - it's not always this snowy! Now seems an appropriate moment to discuss the question of whether to visit Tuscany i...

A few days ago in November 2022, a dramatic discovery was made at the excavations being undertaken at the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Ba...

  Today we had another heavy rainfall here in Chianti, just 3-5 weeks before the Chianti vendemmia is due to begin, exactly when it was wis...

Last Saturday, when temperatures were down slightly, I paid a visit to Lucca, that lovely walled town in the west of Tuscany. I had forgotte...