Let’s start by di spelling that terrible myth about warm and sunny Italy. There are millions of arthritis-aching Italians to bear fitness to the truth Italy the whole peninsula from Milan to Catania, is daine cold, foggy and damp from November through April. And just like Chicago, New York, London Read more…
Lucca Gospel Festival 2009 is a collaborative project by the province of Lucca and Maestro Vijay Pierallini, creator and artistic director of the Festival. Vijay Pierallini, who has been at the forefront of gospel for over a decade, has created the “Halleluja!” This year the festival is aimed specifically at Read more…
We are all familiar with the image Lucca normally presents to the world a well-mannered, conservative, medieval city of music and art. Wall to wall Puccini, lots of old world charm, peaceful, even sleepy, or as forbes magazine (see facing page) would put it, “idyllic”. So can this be the Read more…
The old name of Greve in Chianti was Greve, in 1972 the town was renamed after the inclusion in a Chianti area. It is located about 30 km in south of Florence. Sitting in the Val di Greve, it is named for the small, fast-flowing river that runs through it, Read more…
Millions and millions of people have walked through the Piazza dei Miracoli in pisa, looking upward to admire the leaning tower and personally acknowledging that yes, it really bends quite a lot. But for sure not so many have asked themselves how, when and why such a masterpiece was accomplished Read more…