A marvel nestled in the green Tuscan hills. Exactly in Leccio, near Florence. So we could define the Sammezzano Castle, residence in the centuries of some of the most important Florentine families: Gualtierotti, Altoviti, and even Medici. It was…
Nostalgia as a profound moment that flips, rereads our past and makes it alive again. So we should approach this state of mind, without charging it with negative facets and imagine that the returning past is just a…
Technology, with all the innovations it entails, is increasingly at the centre of our future. Digitisation, for example, is changing our way of being part of the society. Smartphones, social media, blogs and apps are only tools, but they have…
Overcoming the classic approach to art history and opening to new perspectives, a new way of understanding art: Time is Out of Joint shows up to the public with these premises. An exhbition conceived by Cristiana Collu, director…
For Italian comics lovers there's a name etched in history and tradition: Sergio Bonelli Editore. A publishing house established in the 40s that, throughout its long history, has created a lot of comic strip characters and stories that have accompanied many…
On 30 November, the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium will be in Tokyo, with the event Genius Loci. Our places, our leather, to propose to the professionals a whole day dedicated to vegetable tanned leather and its land, Tuscany.
Another…
Men were tanners much earlier than farmers. The first written documentation on the art of tanning dates back to 1250 BC and is then found repeatedly along the entire history of civilization, from ancient Greece to Rome, from…
The most intimate thoughts of a young dreamer, a girl and St. Petersburg, described in a beautiful way, as a framework. It's here that the book White Nights, written by Fëdor Dostoevskij, stems from. A book written at…
A journey into the heart of the Renaissance, that's what tourists find out visiting Uffizi Gallery. A 16th-century building located in the historical centre of Florence which hosts some of the most important masterpieces of the history of our Country,…
Tattoos tell a lot about us and our personality, they are signs of our expectations, of our history and our experiences. They sometimes represent our hidden dreams. Tattoos for many people are merely a sign of mass homologation…
