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ONLY BE FLORENTINE
Only-Be Florentine
Guided Florence, guided tours Florence
Guided Florence is made up by two local guides who offer tours around the best of Florence and Tuscany.
Expo Money and Beauty in Florence
You just have to check out a bit of history to understand how feudalism came down to give way to cities, and with cities came the bourgeoisie. The word bourgeois is definitely a controversial one today, and it´s still used for a particular way of life that means a certain community, education, middle class. That´s how the merchants and businessmen of the Middle Ages, thanks to the skillful handling of business between different regions and countries, began to establish what would be the beginning of the capitalist economic system to which, unfortunately, we´re stuck with and of which we´re seeing its worst tragedies. But hadn´t it been for many of these merchants and their different manoeuvres to assimilate wealth and power, a lot of the best Renaissance art would never have existed. A good part of patronage as well as the production carried out in the years which came after the feudal era and turned Florence into the European market centre of the time, made possible that artists such as Botticelli, Beato Angelico and Piero del Pollaiolo were able to create magnificent works which last up to today. So then, which is the relation between art and capital? Certainly, today the capital is suffering a downfall with the global recession, which however still generates an even higher amount of artistic and activist production than ever before. Two different conditions, one of abundance and another of misery, especially moral misery. However, drawing a parallel between both moments is inevitable, and being able to see from this exhibition the links that made possible the management of such works of art, as...
Secret restaurants in Florence
There´s nothing more stimulating than getting to know places which hold secrets or which are nearly unknown by its inhabitants, and that´s what we´re going to tell you about Florence, a city which lives day and night wildly in a way that few people know. Street concerts, theatre plays on the street, artists who show their works on the way… that and more is Florence, where there´s always time to have fun, especially if that fun has a touch of originality to it. Antico Caffè del Moro, better known as the “artists café” because since the 1950s it´s the place where artists from all fields gather to have a coffee and a few drinks and chat. The paintings which decorate its walls are are product of the payment of many artists who didn´t have money to pay for their drinks, giving it a touch of bohemia where cigarettes, liqueur, coffee and fleeting love mixed in the night. Located on Via del Moro 4, today it´s a traditional bar for those who know that story. Trattoria Za-Za is one of the restaurants on Piazza del Mercato Centrale, and it´s considered an unknown place among tourists and many Florentines, because its regulars are market workers. It´s not a beautiful place, just a market stall where many workers, carriers and sellers go to. Inside the tables are small, with checkered tablecloths and dim lighting because it´s lit with candles. Its brick walls are full of portraits of the characters who have visited the place during its long life. Both the food and the service, as well as the prices, are among the...Molteni Pharmacy Florence
Molteni pharmacy, next to the Uffizi Gallery, is a place to go even if you´re not ill.
Soulspace Florence
Soulspace is a spa in Florence which relaxes and brings wellbeing to all of its visitors. If you want to be in peace, you have to visit it.
All´Insegna Del Moro Pharmacy Florence
All´Insegna Del Moro pharmacy is a historic place open 24 hours a day.
Money and Beauty in Renaissance Florence
In his admirable book ´My life on rooftops0, the Samoan writer Albert Hanover has a marginal and delicate memory, like the corner of a miniature, for the Philosophy teacher who fell into luck during his years of preparative studies for university. His name was Thomas and his physical attitude in class – he never stopped walking around the classroom while he was articulating a speech of prodigious clarity – rhymed unbeatably with the drawings that in his Greek book represented a pair of peripatetic philosophers, like agreeing with Nietzsche about how you think better when walking. On an occasion when Thomas seemed to be lost in a nostalgic delirium for an admirable past time, Hanover was moved to defy him with a question relative to the possible error of idealizing those times which had been socially unfair and if, wasn´t it more adequate to consider that in all historical times, different civilizations had behaved in a more or less monstrous way with large part of the human kind. Without leaving his melancholic air, Thomas sighed, in a way which On an occasion when Thomas seemed to be lost in a nostalgic delirium for an admirable past time, Hanover would later associate with Joseph Cotten during his unforgettable speech about the automobile in ´The Magnificent Ambersons´ by Orson Welles, and he accepted that it was very possible but that, however, he couldn´t stop feeling that in some places and times (the Athens of Pericles, the Florence of the Quatrocento…) what we call culture expressed a certain awareness of the artistic dimension and the existance of the aspiration to live life as...Madova Gloves Florence
Since 1919, Madova makes all types of gloves and exports them all over the world. It´s in the centre of Florence.
Casa Pegna Florence
Pegna is a grocery store for gourmets located next to the Duomo in Florence. They keep their fans updated on Twitter.
Alessandro Dari Jeweler
One of the most original jewelers in Florence, with designs which are reminiscent of modernism.
