Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

When the new Ponte Vecchio was completed, it too was home to local food stores until Grand Duke Ferdinand I of the Medici family decided ... Arno River near central Florence.

Matein Khalid V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like“trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first thought when I ...

Occupying the first and second floors of the U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi along the banks of the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici ... in central Florence – is open ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Follow your nose: how scent and travel are intrinsically interwoven The perfume industry has long been rooted in travel and ...

Tauck celebrates its 100th anniversary in Florence, Italy, from 3 to 6 February with a host of activities for over 700 ...

Florence belonged to the former category, but over Machiavelli’s lifetime its dominant ruling family, the Medici, used careful alliances and calculated manipulation of the political structures to ...

He added, "At Tauck we speak of our 'One Global Family,' which starts with our loyal guests, and we're grateful beyond words ...

From fresh catches at the local market to cacciucco at restaurants, some of Italy's best seafood can be found in this ...

Her death had been prefigured by the murder shortly before of her sister-in-law, Leonora, also strangled in a Medici castle outside Florence, by her own husband, Pietro de’ Medici, again on the orders ...