Tuscany’s “Wine Windows” Offer a Sip of Its History and Culture
- Category: La Voce di New York
The "buchette" that sold wine without human contact even played a role in social distancing during the plague of 1629 to 1631
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Wine-Windows: A Tuscan Tradition Epecially in Florence
- Category: Epicurean Traveler
With a few examples in the Langhe in Piemonte and in Faenza, a small city particularly famous for ceramics in Emilia-Romagna, “wine-windows” or buchette del vino are unique to Tuscany
“Wonders of the Grand Tour” at Milan’s Poldi Pezzoli Museum
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An exhibition tracing how the Grand Tour shaped taste, art collecting, and the modern museum
Pompeii Unveils First Permanent Overview of Life, Death, and Rediscovery Today
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New exhibition traces the ancient city from the 79 AD eruption to excavations honoring victims and revealing daily Roman life
Wax Upon a Time: The Medici and the Arts of Ceroplastics on View at the Uffizi
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Some ninety works-paintings, sculptures, cameos, and objects decorated with semi-precious stones have returrned home for the first time.
Celebrating St. Francis of Assisi
- Category: Inside the Vatican
The patron saint of Italy, animals, ecology and tapestry makers, St. Francis was born in Assisi, a town in the region of Umbria, reputedly on September 23, 1181 or 1182, to Peter Bernadone, a wealthy cloth merchant, and his wife Pica de Bourlemont, a noblewoman from Provence in France.
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