Tag: tuscany

  • Designer Outlets in Italy: Where to Shop for Discounts

    Italy is renowned for its designer fashions. Learn more about outlet shopping in Italy and how to make a discount shopping spree part of your travel itinerary.

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  • How to Have a ‘Sideways’ Visit in Tuscany

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    The wine that got Sideways’s Maya into wine is grown in a single vineyard in southern Tuscany.

  • Chianti: Tuscany’s Subregion Known For Its Famous Red Wine

    The verdant swath of winding hills and country roads known as Chianti is what Tuscan dreams are made of. Silvery olive groves, lone cypresses, and an almond and green patchwork of tilled land form a gorgeous terrestrial tapestry. And, set among the rows of grapevines are medieval walls and Renaissance villas that seem to materialize…

    Chianti landscape
  • Michelangelo and Fra Angelico: Two Renaissance Greats Who Died on the Same Day

    Michelangelo and Fra Angelico were Italian Renaissance artists who died on the same day (many years apart).