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		<title>Genova with kids weekend itinerary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura’s back with her child-centered articles – this time an itinerary for a winter weekend in Genova with activities and museums for kids, including what (and where) to eat! 
Last week we took a long ...]]></description>
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		<title>My pixels for Cinque Terre (and other ways to donate)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I watched a shocking 2 hour news report by Presa Diretta (you can watch the whole thing in Italian online) about the recent Abruzzo and Cinque Terre disasters. I guess I did not ...]]></description>
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		<title>Our friselle in cookbook &#8220;Piatto Unico&#8221; by Toni Lydecker!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two years ago I had the pleasure of meeting distinguished cookbook author Toni Lydecker and her husband while visiting at the lovely Il Poggiolo, the country home and vacation rental of a common friend ...]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Juls&#8217; Kitchen &#8211; Tuscany in the kitchen through recipes and lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet Giulia Scarpaleggia, also known as Juls&#8217; Kitchen. A victim of the economic crisis, or a person who is taking advantage of it to pursue her dreams? She writes &#8220;From January 1, 2012, in fact, ...]]></description>
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		<title>5 things not to miss in Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this guest post, Steve Brenner suggests a slow approach to travel: even if you have only a weekend in Rome, or a few days, there are some things he thinks you should not miss ...]]></description>
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		<title>Palazzo Davanzati for Italian kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Italian youth magazine Focus Junior and the MIBAC (ministry for the arts) have come up with an interesting collaboration to promote twelve lesser-known museums in Italy, amonst them the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stefano Giusti, Modern Luthier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I walked into Stefano Giusti&#8217;s workshop in his parents&#8217; garage in the industrial outskirts of Prato with my first question all ready: How does one become a luthier? But in my head I was saying ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable tourism in Cinque Terre: support Vendemmia, a documentary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Krista and Sharon set out in 2008 to make a film about the impact of mass tourism on the Cinque Terre and the area&#8217;s preservation efforts &#8211; a careful balancing act between economic progress and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/day-trips/sustainable-tourism-cinque-documentary/</link>
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		<title>2011 in review: the arts in Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like my first &#8220;major&#8221; article of the year on this blog should be arts related, and know that I&#8217;ve been somewhat remiss both about posting, and in writing about the arts. The fact ...]]></description>
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		<title>Three concept stores in Florence (to visit while at Pitti)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man stopped me on the street today to ask me, in Italian, if we had a piece of clothing called &#8220;flo&#8221;. After getting over my misunderstanding that this was a theoretical question proposed to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Florence for Children: January 2012 events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It’s freezing, kids (and adults) have the flu and it’s a real pity as there are so many things to do and see around Florence&#8230; and it&#8217;s also a great time to take a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Christmas menus from North to South</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days talk revolves around food (even more than usual) as everyone is planning their menu for the vigiglia di Natale (Christmas Eve). While a normal meal, especially in the South, is often object of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/italian-christmas-menus-from-north-to-south/</link>
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		<title>Bernini’s Sant’Andrea al Quirinale in Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Sant’Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, Gianlorenzo Bernini created a jewel of the Baroque; a keyhole through which to peer into the mind of mid-seventeenth century Rome. Architectural historian Agnes Crawford contributes this learned guest ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/rome/bernini-sant-andrea-al-quirinale/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 Christmas gift ideas from Renaissance Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sing it: On the eigth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: eight live trouts, seven hares a jumpin, six rock crystal glasses, five barrels of olives, four eagles for hunting, three antidotes ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/top-5-christmas-gift-ideas-renaissance-florence/</link>
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		<title>Florence for Children: December 2011 and holiday events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the second post from ArtTrav’s colomnist who will be contributing seasonal articles about what to do in Florence with children. 
Laura, mother of three-year-old Francesco (in the photo!), is also the energetic founder of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/florence-for-children-december-holiday-events-2011/</link>
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		<title>An invite to bloggers: a “gift” from the Italy Blogging Roundtable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will know that, since May 2011, five of us have been writing a monthly post on a given topic and we call it the Italy Blogging Roundtable. Each month we decide the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/italy-blogging-roundtable-gift-invitation/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re on House Hunters International</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living in Florence has its appeal, but Tommaso and I have always had a thing for Maremma, an area of Tuscany that remains &#8220;off the beaten track&#8221; due to its apparent lack of much to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/househunters/</link>
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		<title>Florence for children: November and December events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meet ArtTrav’s new colomnist, who will be contributing seasonal articles about what to do in Florence with children. 
Laura, mother of three-year-old Francesco (in the photo!), is also the energetic founder of ToscanaIN and is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Minestrone: my winter comfort food (Italy blogging roundtable)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember what my comfort food was before I moved to Italy, but I think the main characteristics of comfort food have been the same my whole life long: warm, starchy, and mushy. I ...]]></description>
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		<title>Belated Fall photo post (due to global warming)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The October post for the Italy blogging Roundtable was &#8220;Fall in Tuscany.&#8221; And what I really wanted to do for that post was a beautiful photo post of Fall colours&#8230; Like what Gloria did, but ...]]></description>
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		<title>A better sweater at BP Studio outlet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it is because I&#8217;m getting old, or because of my job I&#8217;m becoming better attuned to good quality clothing, but I find that most of the stuff in stores these days ...]]></description>
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		<title>Street art in Florence: non-exhibit by Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to do street art in Florence. And there&#8217;s not a lot of it. Keep your eyes open and you get to know the few players there are. There&#8217;s Clet and his modified ...]]></description>
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		<title>A day out with cookbook author Pamela Sheldon Johns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book review and giveaway of Pamela Sheldon Johns "Cucina Povera Tuscan Peasant Cooking". In which I describe a day out with the author to talk about research and writing, and a fabulous lunch in the Crete Senese area.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/day-trips/pamela-sheldon-johns-book-review-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Florence museum card update and comparison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post illustrates the two main museum discount cards available in Florence. The information is up to date (October 2011) and replaces information I published already when the card was first announced and when it ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/florence-museum-card-update-and-comparison/</link>
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		<title>Uffizi Guide (do it yourself)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Uffizi Gallery is perhaps the number one attraction in Florence. I get a lot of requests from friends of friends to take them on a tour of the museum because you can enjoy it ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/uffizi-guide/</link>
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		<title>Fall in Italy: what to wear for midseason weather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re willing to take fashion advice from a Canadian whose concept of Fall before moving to Italy was &#8220;that one pleasant day between summer and winter,&#8221; and whose main shoe supplier is Asics, listen ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/fall-in-italy-what-to-wear-for-midseason-weather/</link>
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		<title>Dear Mom, you must worry about your daughter in Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mom,
You must worry about me living in Italy at times like these. It's hard to have a daughter in the place that is the object of international ridicule, for it's hard to justify being here at all. It looks really bad from the outside. I must say that right now, it looks pretty bad from the inside too. The only thing that holds it together is the whole insieme of what put this country together in the first place...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/dear-mom-daughter-in-italy/</link>
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		<title>Art film festival &#8211; Lo schermo dell&#8217;arte Firenze 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to the 2011 edition of Lo Schermo dell&#8217;Arte, the art film part of the 50 giorni di cinema internazionale, a series of thematic film festivals that take place each Fall ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/schermo-dellarte-firenze-2011/</link>
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		<title>Palazzo Strozzi: for the love of God, money, and democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You'd have to have been dropped on the head when young to not notice the fortuitous timeliness of this Fall's exhibits at Palazzo Strozzi - upstairs "Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities" and downstairs "Declining Democracy". Both exhibits are equally contemporary, and they will make you reflect upon our current, collective situation whether you're an Italian resident or a visitor from abroad.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/palazzo-strozzi-for-the-love-of-god-money-and-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Where to get free wifi in Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From September 28 2011, the city of Florence will be adding 14 new wifi hotspots to the existing network. Beyond the wifi provided free by &#8220;Firenze wifi&#8221;, there are a few other places in the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/where-to-get-free-wifi-in-florence/</link>
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		<title>Windsurfing in Tuscany (aka, what I learned on my summer holiday)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer holidays at the beach here in Italy tend to be quite routine and sedentary. This August I decided things would be different. I would go out and become a professional surfer. Clearly I was ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/tuscany/windsurfing-in-tuscany/</link>
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		<title>Umbria Slow iPhone app review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Umbria Slow: Food, Culture, &#38; Travel iPhone app makes me want to visit Umbria, often billed &#8211; as the authors write &#8211; as &#8220;Tuscany&#8217;s poor stepsister.&#8221; Poor Umbria and its residents have something of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/umbria-slow-iphone-app-review/</link>
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		<title>Events in Florence in September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short list of what&#8217;s on in September 2011 here in Florence.
EVENTS
Sept 6-11, Emergency, incontro nazionale. Talks every evening and all weekend on diverse themes related to world issues, from doctors to journalists, plus some ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/september-2011-events/</link>
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		<title>Fruit and veg, straight from the farm!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of how I came to buy Giuseppe Mazzini&#8217;s peaches is one of good timing combined with local friendliness. One of the things we hoped for when we bought a house in Maremma was ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/tuscany/farm-fresh-produce-maremma/</link>
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		<title>Pistoia Underground Festival &#8211; September 16-30 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day that you hear about a really hip and youthful event in Tuscany. We&#8217;re inundated with classical concerts (and I have nothing against that!) and Renaissance art (ditto), but contemporary culture needs ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/arttrav-news/pistoia-underground-festival-2011/</link>
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		<title>Short Renaissance art history courses in Florence in September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British Institute of Florence has brought to my attention two interesting short courses in Renaissance art history, one a hands on workshop, the other a thematic course inspired by the forthcoming exhibit at Palazzo ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/art-history-tools/short-renaissance-art-history-course/</link>
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		<title>Gratuitous photographs of sunflowers in Maremma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something about sunflowers that I find irresistible. I know, it&#8217;s a platitude, everyone loves sunflowers, what is not to like. I don&#8217;t care. When I drive past a field of these HUGE heads ...]]></description>
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		<title>A referendum for San Lorenzo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It hit the news yesterday and the debate has exploded in the press: Matteo Renzi has declared that there will be a referendum to allow Florentines to decide if the facade of the Church of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/a-referendum-for-san-lorenzo/</link>
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		<title>Kite Surfing in Tuscany &#8211; Fiumara Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we decided to try a different beach in Maremma. At the north end of Marina di Grosseto there&#8217;s a long stretch of free beach called Fiumara. Turns out that this beach is a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/tuscany/kite-surfing-in-tuscany-fiumara-beach/</link>
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		<title>Living in Florence Italy: summer dinner in the hills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the heat makes one&#8217;s appetite wane, Florentines go to dinner in the hills beyond the city. You&#8217;ll need a car to get to any of these restaurants outside of the city, known for their ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/summer-in-florence-dinner-in-the-hills/</link>
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		<title>What the internet can learn from the printing press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything has been done before. The fact that we keep repeating ourselves is undeniable by anyone who observes any sector of human life, from fashion, which is constantly undergoing revivals, to art which seldom says ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/art-history-tools/what-the-internet-can-learn-from-the-printing-press/</link>
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		<title>Is it possible for an art historian to have one favourite work of art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our relationship with the visual arts is often emotional and personal. Most people are not able to explain what it is that they like about a given painting, in part because our education system does ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/art-history-tools/how-we-judge-art/</link>
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		<title>Events in Florence in July 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This might be a short post, folks, because it&#8217;s just the last week of June and the city has already emptied out considerably. I really wonder how all these people can afford to go on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/events-in-florence-in-july-2011/</link>
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		<title>How to make vegetarian lasagna bianca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Italians place a higher value on &#8220;pasta al forno&#8221; than &#8220;pasta asciutta&#8221; for some reason. Perhaps because making it &#8220;al forno&#8221; requires lengthier preparation and a bigger mess in your kitchen. But sometimes a good ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/how-to-make-vegetarian-lasagna-bianca/</link>
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		<title>Florence three day itinerary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re coming to Florence for just three days, you&#8217;d going to need to really plan your trip well to make the most of your limited time. I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I&#8217;ve just published ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/florence-three-day-itinerary/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare and museums: Palazzo Strozzi first in Florence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to break some insider news in the field of social media and museums (two of my favourite things). Palazzo Strozzi is the first museum in Florence to be officially on Foursquare, and the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/foursquare-museum-italy/</link>
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		<title>How to make Crostata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crostata is my favourite dessert. I love the buttery cookie crust and the sweet jam. It&#8217;s a good heavy snack at any time of day (even an okay breakfast). Back in 2003, newly transported to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/how-to-make-crostata/</link>
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		<title>It must be a sign: Driving in Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See this sign? It&#8217;s the stop sign before a rotonda (roundabout) on my street. It&#8217;s a universal sign that means stop. You know that. I know that. And at least 32% of the people who ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/expat-life/driving-in-italy/</link>
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		<title>Locorotondo: Trullo resort, restaurant, and the beauties of Puglia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 4 day weekend is long enough to take a road trip down the boot to Puglia, a land that in my experience is polarized between beauty and blemishes: unfinished &#8220;abusive&#8221; construction not far from ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/day-trips/locorotondo-trullo-restaurant-puglia/</link>
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		<title>Historic fashion inspires contemporary at student fashion show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the Cellini-Tornabuoni fashion show I posted the invitation to the other day? It was last night and I was totally blown away by the clothes that these students designed, sewed, and modeled. They are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.arttrav.com/florence/historic-fashion-inspires-contemporary/</link>
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