Also this year, as is now the case since 2005, Saturday 6 January 2018 the “Train of the Epiphany” will arrive at the San Piero a Sieve station. Befana will also be on board. Tickets of the train of the Epiphany can be purchased by January 3, 2018. TRAIN OF THE EPIPHANY: HOW TO RETURN BACK IN TIME It is an ancient steam train that starts from the station of Florence Santa Maria Novella and arrives at the station of…
NWho we are? Where do we go? What do we do? Usually these are the most frequent questions that every person asks himself when deciding on where and how to celebrate the arrival of the new year. Unfortunately on the first question we can not do much but we can help you solve the last two. Here are some proposals, suitable for all tastes, that will finally answer the question of where to celebrate and what to do for the…
Mugello has always been a land of engines. Even before the construction of the current Mugello Circuit, the “Grand Prix of Mugello” took place on the Mugello Road Circuit. This automobile competition, organized by the Automobile Club Firenze, took place from 1914 to 1970. THE PATH It was a circuit between the streets of the different municipalities of Mugello. The roads used for this circuit were mostly mule tracks and full of potholes. Until that moment it was only traveled…
Transparency, freshness and purity. These are the characteristics that make one immediately think of water. Mugello has a very important natural mineral water source known all over the world: Acqua Panna. ORIGIN OF THE ACQUA PANNA Acqua Panna takes its name from the Renaissance Medici Villa Panna, belonging to the Medici family. Today the villa is part of a natural reserve of 1300 hectares and was the original site of the establishments of Acqua Panna. In ancient times the only road…
The serena stone of Firenzuola, extracted in the quarries of the homonymous municipality, is considered synonymous with prestige and elegance. This stone is the symbol of the Florentine Renaissance. It has been used by famous people such as Michelangelo or Brunelleschi for the construction of the Dome of the Florence (Santa Maria del Fiore). In particular, Brunelleschi has made the serena stone the protagonist of the new architecture. As a result, around 1350 the architects and sculptors began to use…
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