The rain an the summer sun fermented Kentucky tobacco which had been sitting in a court yard. This “rotten” tobacco was then used to make low cost sigars, unexpectedly creating a better tasting and more pleasant cigar than traditional ones. This was the origin of the “Toscano”. It was 1818. Read more…
Coincidentally enough at the press conference for this the 5th edition of Lucca Donna Jazz, held in the Headquarters of the patrons Fondazione Banca del Monte, the conversation spontaneously turned to this era of Lucca Jazz. The board members reminisced their teenage pilgrimages to San Giorgio in the hope of Read more…
Olives, those beautiful silvery trees, have today become a visual metaphor for Italy. Nevertheless, seldom does anyone come to Italy solely for the purpose of growing olives and making olive oil. Most foreign-born cultivators naively back into it somehow. Olives usually enter their lives on a ” bit of land Read more…
The “Wine Trails of Tuscany” run through magnificent wine-growing areas which, apart from the obvious vineyards and wineries, offer an integrated tourist package of cultural, historical and natural attractions. These trails are also a means of fostering rural development and of promoting so-called “Enotourism”, that is, setting wine production in Read more…
The picture on the front cover is very meaningful for everyone who claims to be Lucchese. It was taken last year just before the procession of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross started to arrive in the Cathedral of San Martino. The procession leaves from the Church of San Frediano Read more…