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Castiglione della Pescaia and the road to contemporary art
Far from the bright lights of Florence and Siena, it’s hard for a small town art gallery to get any notice in Tuscany. After all, the region’s nature has been the muse for artists since the age when paint was little more than crushed earth pasted to a stone wall canvas, but there are not …
Florence with children from Christmas 2012 to Epiphany
If you are staying in Florence with your children during the 2012 holidays or you are coming here from abroad, here you can find loads of culture and sports to do with your children in town, in order to have fun and learn new things together.
Here is a day by day calendar of Florence events …
December and Christmas 2012 with children in Florence
This is my second post about pre-Christmas initiatives for children in Florence and I’m not going to repeat the ones suggested in last year’s post. I’ll tell you what I’m planning to do this year with 4 year old Francesco.
If you want activities for kids between Christmas 2012 and Epiphany 2013 click here.
10 reasons Milan is not just grey and boring
Personally I don’t know Milan well: this is a guest post by an ArtTrav reader, Patricia, who had commented on another article on this blog, from which followed some correspondence in which she declared that she loved Milan, and had chosen to live there on her own, not for a man, but for the city. …
Lucca Comics & Games… for kids!
Laura is back with her “…for kids” series with a special on what to do with kids in Lucca in November 2012.
Lucca is a quiet town with nothing to do at night but it becomes particularly busy and amusing every year at the beginning of November (just after Halloween) when Lucca Comics & Games is …
Exploring Naples and Pompeii
You might have thought it was just a cheap cheese and tomato pizza. But a Margherita in Naples is a thing of refinement. Only the freshest tomatoes, the thinnest crispiest base, real herbs and the best mozzarella are used. And it’s cooked in a proper, searingly hot wood-fired oven. Sometimes it comes with several fat …
Villa Gioli (Pisa) and the Macchiaioli movement
On a recent visit to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna at the Pitti Palace, I came across a group of paintings with bucolic images of the country, and the landscape struck me as being somehow familiar. What a lovely surprise to discover, upon reading the wall text, that they were the work of Francesco Gioli, one …
The Ferragamo Museum in Florence: one of 100 places every woman should go in Italy
ArtTrav is pleased to be listed as a resource in the second edition of Susan Van Allen’s book 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, available in paperback or kindle editions. The author delights us with the following guest post on a museum in Florence that may appeal very much to women, but …
Travel in Tuscia (Etruria) with kids
Our guest kids’ editor Laura is back with a trip she took to Tuscia – a bit of hidden Italy for you – when Francesco was just 9 months old.
When Francesco was about 9 months old, we made one of the first trips down to see my relatives in Puglia by car from Tuscany. The …
Arte e Parte – Piero Bonacina’s sculpture garden in Montegiovi
In this guest post, Maremma resident and journalist Elisa takes us on a tour of one of the lesser known art parks in Maremma.
Piero Bonacina’s sculpture garden sits high on the hills of Montegiovi in the Tuscan Maremma. The garden, affectionately called Arte e Parte, is perched so precariously close to the edge that if …
Italy tarot itinerary
Tarot has left its presence on a few places in north-central Italy; this guest post presents an Italy tarot itinerary to follow if you’re an enthusiast, and suggests a guided tour if you want to deepen your knowledge.
In Italy, art and history is everywhere. It’s so full of it, you’d still find something new to …
Museums in Basel: Modern Art, Architecture and Design
Swiss-born, Tuscan resident Katja Meier delights us with a modern take on Basel in this guest post… just in time for Art Basel (June 14-17, 2012)
In the early 90s I spent a year working at two of Basel’s theaters. These were my first jobs after graduating from Zurich University of the Arts, and whenever I …
ArtTrav is a blog about expat life, art, and travel in Italy and Europe. I am Alexandra Korey, a Florence-based art historian turned blogger.
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