Features thirty-six villages from all over Tuscany from those clustered around the great cities of Lucca and Florence, which produce some of the finest olive oil and are home to some of the world's greatest works of art, to the Chianti region and the valley of the Orcia, devoted to the cultivation...
Superbly engraved by Guiseppe Bouchard, this large and detailed plan shows the many features of urban design and civic embellishment that have attracted visitors for centuries.
Hardcover: 360 pages
(8 Mar 2006)
Language English
Original Price $ 30.00
Paperback Edition $ 18.00
ISBN / Barcode: 9780195177480
In a narrative that reads like a novel, Lauro Martines presents this "rich and fascinating portrait of Girolamo Savonarola" (LATimes), the preacher and political agitator who took center stage in Renaissance Florence after the fall of the Medicis. The Dominican friar is remembered as a...
Format: NTSC / PAL (Playable in any Country) Running Time: 106 min.
ISBN / Barcode: 9788890361814
Contents: The City, The History, Art, Personages, Curiosities, The Medici Family. Special Features: The Arno River, Florence, Then & Now, Wintertime, Slide Tuscany, Florence in music, A “journey through time” is a guide to the most beautiful places explained in detail (32 pages...
Florence, the capital of Tuscany, cradle of the Renaissance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, unfolds in this book its architectural wealth, its emblematic monuments as well as its popular neighborhoods. From churches to museums, from gardens to palaces and from small squares to winding streets,...
Age Range: 5 - 7 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2
Hardcover: 44 pages
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781100425498
The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him.
Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the...
From the minute they look out of their window in the morning to their last nightcap at the bar, Tuscans, like most Italians, are thinking about food.
In Tuscany, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi take readers on a culinary journey through a Tuscan day, to discover the delicacies of the region and the...
