Advice for your Tuscany tour.
For your stay in Tuscany, don't think only about hotels! You may be surprise comparing the Tuscany Hotels' price with our villas! So we really advice you to choose one of our wonderful Tuscany villa to rent! You may come for tourism, businness or may be just for an ItIalian language course. In any case tray to dedicate some of your time to visit the historic centre of Florence Italy, which is the symbol of the Renaissance.
Florence keeps an exceptional artistic heritage which is a marvellous evidence of its aged culture. Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting, lived in Florence as well as Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renewers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio forefathers of the Renaissance, Ghiberti and the Della Robbias , Filippo Lippi and Angelico ; Botticelli , Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Their works, together with those of many other generations of artists up to the artists of our century, are gathered in the several museums of the town: the Uffizzi, the most selected gallery in the world, the Palatina gallery with the paintings of the "Golden Ages". The Bargello Tower with the sculptures of the Renaissance, the museum of San Marco with Angelico's works, the Academy, the chapels of the Medicis, Buonarroti's house with the sculptures of Michelangelo, the following museums: Bardini , Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, The Gallery of Modern Art, The museum of " Opera del Duomo", the museum of Silverware and the museum of "Precious" Stones. Great monuments are the landmarks florentine artistic culture: the Baptistery with its mosaics; the Cathedral with its sculptures, the medieval churches with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refectories; the "Certosa". In the archaeological museum you will find plenty of documents of Etruscan civilization.
On the cultural and artistic side, apart from the various Etruscan and Roman remains, it can be noted that works by Beato Angelico, Della Robbia, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippo Lippi, Donatello, Rossellino, Mino da Fiesole etc. may be come across at every step in the churches and small museums of towns and villages, and examples of great architecture by Michelozzo, Giuliano da San Gallo and Leon Battista Alberti are also frequently encountered.
From your villa in Tuscany you may visit many places near Florence, they are known because famous people were born or lived there: Giotto and Beato Angelico were born in Vicchio in Mugello, Boccaccio was born in Certaldo, in Vinci we can find the house where Leonardo da Vinci was born and the museum dedicated to him, the paternal home of Petrarca is in Incisa Valdarno, the humanist and philosopher Marsilio Ficino was born in Figline and Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" at Albergaccio of St.Andrea in Percussina.
Another theme may be the medicean villas and gardens; as to parks we can remember the villa Demidof Park at Pratolino with the huge Appenine statue by Giambologna. Another reference that is inextricably linked to Tuscany, to Florence and its territory is the prestigious Chianti Area with its characteristic hilly landscape, where the geometric pattern of the vineyards, with the aligned rows of vines stretching out in different directions, creates changing effects of light and colour.
The vineyards alternate with olive groves and, here and there, with rows of cypresses, castles, cottages, ancient parishes, villas and gardens. Each year, the noblest product of this land, Chianti Classico, is honoured in various high level events.
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