The Cappella della Madonna di Vitaleta on the road from Pienza to San Quirico d'Orcia

In 2001 I came to live in Italy. I had some fun, wrote a journal and this is the blog of my story...

"Tuscany is a state of grace. The countryside is so lovingly designed that the eye sweeps the mountains and valleys without stumbling over a single stone. The lilt of the rolling green hills, the upsurging cypresses, the terraces sculptured by generations that have handled the rocks with skillful tenderness, the fields geometrically juxtaposed as though drawn by a draughtsman for beauty as well as productivity; the battlements of castles on the hills, their tall towers standing grey-blue and golden tan among the forest of trees, the air of such clarity that every sod of earth stands out in such dazzling detail. The fields ripening with barley and oats, beans and beets. The grape-heavy vines espaliered between the horizontal branches of silver-green olive trees, composing orchards of webbed design, rich in intimation of wine, olive oil and lacy-leaf poetry. Tuscany untied the knots in a man's intestines, wiped out the ills of the world. Italy is the garden of Europe, Tuscany is the garden of Italy, Florence is the flower of Tuscany." Irving Stone from my favourite book " The Agony and the Ecstacy" A fictional biography of Michelangelo



The Tuscan Year

January

6th  - Befana


February

Carnival - Last three weekends


March 

1-3rd  - Terre di Toscana - Lido di Camaiore

Taste - Stazione Leopolda

Camelia festival - Lucca

8th -  Ladies day

April 

Easter
 
25th Festa della Republicca

Centovini, Impruneta

Iris garden - Piazzale Michelangelo

May

1st Festa del lavori

Mille Miglia car race

Pentecoste a Castellina

Cantine Aperte

Open gardens and villas - Florence

June

2nd - Liberation day

Outdoor pools open

Florence wine event

Montespertoli wine Cinghiale

24th - San Giovanni - Florence

July

Lucca Summer festival

Mercantia - Certaldo

August

Ferragosto

September

Chianti expo - Greve

Vino al Vino - Panzano

Vino e piacere - Impruneta

October


 November

1st All Saints

last three weekends -Truffle festival - San Miniato

December

The Immacolata

Christmas

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