Gualdo (near Massarosa) The road to the village climbs through a dense, centuries old wood from which Gualdo takes its name (Waldum is the German word for wood). The village is mentioned in a document dated 1099, when a “villa” subject to the Jus of San martino, to which Massarosa Read more…
Beauty Stitched By hand Collection that fete Italian excellence in needlework. For more than forty years now, Loretta Caponi and her daughter Lucia, have been creating unique expression of the most authentic traditions of made in Tuscany excellence and “made to measure” couture. Garments of impeccable quality: even linings and Read more…
Elba Island… Napoleon Slept Here Sitting just to the west of the Italian mainland somewhat south of Pisa lies the island of Elba. It is common knowledge that Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba when nobody in France knew what else do with him but there is much more to this Read more…
Pienza, a small town near Siena, is a rare example of Renaissance town building. Defined, from time to time, the “ideal city”, the “utopian city”, it represents one of the best planned Renaissance towns, where a model of ideal living and governing was realized thus working out the idea of a Read more…
It’s a happy accident of translation that the word “opera” in Italian translates into English as both “opera” (as in musical drama, opera lirica) and “work”. So the neatly named permanent exhibition in Lucca of “puccini Opera” can serve both as a showcase for the maestro’s whole output of work Read more…