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Florence Art Guided Tours With a Licensed Guide

Giuliana Grillotti holds official guides liscenses for the cities of Florence and Lucca. Her basic training is in Art history and she has a degree in Art history from the University of Pisa. She published her thesis in on Sacred Art in 1986 , specifically on the ancient goldsmiths and the translucid enamels of the old Luccan Dioceses. She obtained her Florentine guide’s liscence in 1992 and since then she has been active not only as a guide but as a writer and collaborator on projects designed to promote and preserve Florence’s cultural heritage. She was a regular contributor to a Florentine magazine where she had a column focusing on the art of the city. In 1997 she contributed an article to the book ‘The Renaissance Chapels of Florence’ . In recent years she collaborated with the provincial authorities on a project to promote the Park of Pratolino, known to many as the park of Villa Demidoff, and was involved in the publishing of a brief but complete guide to the park. She has also taught a course for the British Institute of Florence, on Giotto and his followers. Giuliana Grillotti is an appraiser of the Florentine Court House. Owner since 2003 NCC licence and minivan for tours into the real Tuscany

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Fashion outlet shopping near Bologna — designer brands at discounted prices
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Designer Outlet Shopping Near Florence: The Mall, Prada Space and More

The area around Florence contains some of Italy’s most famous outlet shopping destinations — The Mall, the Prada Space outlet, and Barberino Designer Outlet among them. For visitors based in Bologna, these are all reachable as day trips: Florence is around 35 minutes by high-speed train, and the outlets are a short drive from there.

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Six Day Trips from Florence: Chianti, Val d’Orcia, Siena, Lucca, Pisa and Emilia-Romagna

Florence sits at the centre of a region where good day trips are unusually easy to arrange. Chianti is 30 minutes south by car; Pisa and Lucca are an hour by train; Siena and Montalcino take a little longer. And in the other direction, just north of Tuscany, the high-speed train puts Bologna and the

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Dario Cecchini: The Butcher of Panzano in Chianti

Dario Cecchini is an eighth-generation butcher working from the same shop his family has occupied in Panzano in Chianti since the 18th century. He is probably the most written-about butcher in the world — featured in Netflix’s Chef’s Table, Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy, and countless food publications — but the reason people travel to

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