Country House Nazzano near Florence, Tuscany

Anyone intending to visit Tuscany can only go from Florence: the city of the lily is a treasure trove of artistic treasures and a center of fervent vitality. In addition to the exceptional heritage of art, testimony of its centuries-old civilization, you can enjoy Florence walking at sunset along the enchanting lungarni, going through the bohemian alleys of Oltrarno or getting lost in the streets of San Niccolò, where walking along the ancient walls will seem to end up as if by magic in another age.
Discovering Florence means taking the steps that belonged to Dante, turning a corner to find himself in front of his house and being in contact with a true distillation of medieval and Renaissance art. Here in the course of a few centuries Cimabue and Giotto lived, fathers of Italian painting; Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renovators of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, fathers of the Renaissance; and then again Ghiberti and the Della Robbia, Filippo Lippi and the Beato Angelico, Botticelli and Paolo Uccello, and universal geniuses like Leonardo and Michelangelo.
The churches of Santa Croce, San Miniato, Santa Maria Novella and San Lorenzo host some of the most important tombs, mosaics and frescoes while the museums will delight you with works of art, bronzes and marble statues and many treasures.

Lodges, squares, churches and even the streets of the city are dotted with their works, but the best way to discover them is to visit the unique museums in the world housed in the city center. The extraordinary collection of the Uffizi, the Palatine Gallery with the paintings of the "golden age", the Bargello, with the sculptures of the Renaissance, the Museum of San Marco, with the works of the Angelico, the Academy, the Medici Chapels and the Buonarroti House with Michelangelo's sculptures; the museums Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, the one of the Pietre Dure and many others.
Moving in the lucky handkerchief where the Baptistery and Palazzo della Signoria insist, Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, means immersing itself in the world of art in fashion, the historic center of Florence (World Heritage Site since 1982) is in fact studded of an extraordinary range of boutiques of all the most important brands, being the city lily an international reference point of high fashion. And when you are tired of the crowded alleys it will be time to leave the center behind you and after a corroborant ascent free your gaze from Piazzale Michelangelo or San Miniato al Monte, from which you can enjoy one of the most evocative views of Italy.
Famous for its Florentine steak, the typical cuisine of Florence is made of simple and genuine ingredients that are transformed into special dishes, especially meat. Fettunta and bruschetta of liver to begin with, pappa with tomato and ribollita to follow and among the latter, along with the Florentine, also stand out the tripe and lampredotto. All, of course, ask for a good wine and Tuscany does not get caught unprepared