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Tastes of Tuscany at Osteria La Cantinetta

By on January 20, 2012 in FLORENCE NIGHTLIFE

Osteria La Cantinetta is hard to miss if you go anywhere at all outside of your Florence apartment or hotel room. On the street that connects the Duomo (the biggest and most famous church) with the Mercato Centrale (the biggest and most famous) market, it has one of most well-traveled and convenient-for-a-meal-in-between-site-seeing locations in the [...]

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10 Types of Italian Coffee Decoded and Pronounced

By on December 27, 2011 in EVERYDAY LIFE, TRIPS & TRICKS, Tuscany

Sure, you’ve had an espresso and a cappuccino, but that’s just the tip of the Italian coffee iceberg, my friends. Coffee in Italy is a thing of it’s own. Even if you’re familiar with copycats in your home country, you’ll be surprised by how many names you don’t recognize on an Italian menu, and how [...]

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Go Global At The Florence Christmas Market!

By on December 17, 2011 in ARTS&CULTURE&MUSEUMS, FLORENCE LIVE EVENTS

Everyone loves a good Christmas present from abroad; they’re exotic and exciting, and hint at the unsaid “Look at all the effort I went through to bring you this extraordinary gift from so far away.” If, this Holiday season, you’ve found yourself without the time or money for an around the globe shopping spree, you can thank Florence, Italy for arranging for the world to meet you there. Grazie, Firenze!

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