Category: Tuscany things to do

Wine in Italy


Wine in Italy - Enoteca Vanni Lucca

Enoteca Vanni wine-shop in Tuscany

The Enoteca Vanni, founded in 1965, is located in Lucca’s historical center,where you can find the best wines, liquors, extra virgin olive-oils and  typical Lucchese food.

You can have a look at our products on our web-site and you can place an order through an easy automatic system . Be sure that each product comes directly from our cellars!

The Enoteca Vanni sells  wine, but also the best brands of liquors, whisky and distillates, both domestic and imported.  In addition, a large space is dedicated to wine especially to collectors.

It is the passion, typical of family traditions, which has placed Enoteca Vanni amongst Italy best stocked cellars.

It is the owners experience to deal with wine which guarantees the superior quality wanted by wine lovers.

So, if you find yourself walking in the center come and see them, please stop in for a visit

Enoteca Vanni
Piazza del Salvatore 7, 55100 Lucca
Tel. & Fax +39 0583 491902

Web-site: www.enotecavanni.com

Tuscan tours

Tuscan Tours - Antro del Corchia Grottos

Underground fun
Grottos, mines, caves, museums:an outing to land of marble.
Never been caving? In  Levignani, just up from the coast, you can and a dive into the Corchia Underground cave system is a spineshivering thrill.
The key attraction is the Antro del Corchia, a spectacular karst complex made up of 70 km of galleries, wells, and conduits: since 2001, expert guides accompany visitors on a 2 km walk through this mysterious secret world.

Some other suggestions: the Miniere dell’Argento Vivo mines, the Arabescato marble quarry, the museum of quarrying tools and equipment.

Tickets Grottos
Via IV Novembre 70, Levignani di Stazzema.
Tel. +39 0584 778405

www.antrocorchia.it – info@antrocorchia.it
www.levignani.it

Italian boutique

Italian boutique

Italian boutique: wearable sensations and secrets.
Women’s fashion celebrates Tuscan creative excellence and workmanship. SaveTheQueen! has docked in Forte dei Marmi to strains of a stirring fanfare celebrating the style, the inventiveness, and the lush quality of the Tuscan artisan tradition. The SaveTheQueen! ateliers in Florence, Rome and Paris (and coming soon in Cannes) are conceived as stages for the collections, theaters where inspirations are intensified by sound and color in fantastic settings.

The watchworld at SaveThe Queen! is made in Italy. For everything: styling, fabrics, leathers and accessories.The print patterns, developed strictly from hand-drawn original studies, are unique and special brand features, as are the embroideries, stellar examples of skilled hand work and symbols of Tuscan culture and tradition.

The Forte dei Marmi boutique has all the Summer novelties, including beachwear and lounge and nightime wear. But the horizon is already crowded with the heralds of the Fall-Winter collection, inspired by enigmatic Eastern European auras. Fashion items like pages of a diary scraps of poetry and secretes worn in plain sight.

SaveTheQueen!
Piazza Tonini 1, Forte dei Marmi Lucca Tel. +39 0584 786078
Via De’ Tornabuoni 49, Firenze
Via del Babuino 49, Roma
189 Boulevard Saint Germain, Parigi

Web-site: www.savethequeen.com

Giacomo Puccini October 2010 Events in Lucca

Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini October 2010 Events in Lucca

TUTTI I LUNEDI’, MARTEDI’ E MERCOLEDI’ DEL MESE /EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH
SPECIAL CONCERTS
“PUCCINI AND MOZART”
(always with different performers and programmes)

TUTTI I GIOVEDI’ DEL MESE – EVERY THRUSDAY OF THE MONTH

UNA NOTTE ALL’OPERA/A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Arie e duetti dal repertorio lirico di Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donietti, Mascagni ed altri/arias and duets from the Italian operatic repertoire

TUTTI I VENERDI’ DEL MESE – EVERY FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

MOZART & PUCCINI
Arie e duetti da/arias and duets from  LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, COSI’ FAN TUTTE, DON GIOVANNI, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, LA BOHEME, TOSCA

TUTTI I SABATO DEL MESE – EVERY SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

UNA NOTTE ALL’OPERA/A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Arie e duetti dal repertorio lirico di Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donietti, Mascagni ed altri/arias and duets from the Italian operatic repertoire

TUTTE LE DOMENICHE DEL MESE – EVERY SUNDAY OF THE MONTH

PUCCINI E LA CANZONE TRADIZIONALE NAPOLETANA – PUCCINI & THE  NEAPOLITAN TRADITIONAL SONGS

Tuscan tours

Tuscan tours - Santo Stefano Church

Pieve Santo Stefano Church
This church was built on the site of a small, early Christian church betwen 1000 and 1200. Its Romanesque layout can still be seen on left side and in the apse with its the three windows with one light.

In the 16th century the church was enlarged and a portico was added to the faced, but the inside was completely redesigned at the end of the 18th century.

The church has a nave and two isles, and a vaulted ceiling with decorations dating back to 1910. Inside there is a very fine, late 16th century organ, the work of Onofrio Zecchini; an altar price by Zacchia with La Madonna tra i Santi Rocco e Sebastiano, which is now in the Villa Guinigi museum and has been replaced by an 19th century copy by Michele Ridolfi.