Food Tours of Florence

Name: Food Tours of Florence
Address: Via Faentina 231, Florence, 50133, IT
Telephone: +39 345 344 2056
Rating: 5

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Food Tours of Florence

We are a team of native tour guides that love food, wine and their city. We want to make you enjoy the best of Florence culinary and art traditions.
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24/06/2023

June 24th - today is a special day!
Florence started early this morning with a parade to celebrate St. John the Baptist (the patron saint of the city) and everything is now ready for the big events of the day: the final match of the Calcio Storico - the traditional historical soccer- in Santa Croce square, and the "fochi di San Giovanni" the fireworks display at 10.00 pm tonight.

13/05/2023

A typical dish of Italian springtime: pasta with asparagus and shirmps

17/02/2023

Santa Croce square is ready for Match of the Siege 2023 (Partita dell’Assedio 2023)!

Today, February 17th at 3.00 pm, Florence will commemorate the first match of Calcio Storico, held on February 17th 1530: while the city was besieged by the army of Carlo V and Pope Clemente VII, people played a match of Calcio Storico, to make fun of the attackers.
"Calcio Storico Fiorentino" (Historical Florentine soccer) is a mix of rugby, soccer and street fighting and it is still played in Florence every 17th February and then in June, as tournament between the 4 districts of the city.
Before the game will start, a parade will walk around the city with flags and drums.

14/02/2023

On February 14th many countries in the world celebrate Valentine's Day.
Originally the Romans had a fertility celebration in mid- February.
However, the origins of what we celebrate today is connected to the Christian commemoration of the saint and martyr Valentine. It's not sure who was the Valentine the day is named aftyer, probably it was a priest of Terni who is said to have helped a fighting couple reconcile giving them a rose, becoming the patron saint of love.
Nowadays couples celebrate this day with romantic gestures, gifts, flowers and, as we all know, chocolates.

07/02/2023

The wonder of the Uffizi Gallery.
Also a museum visit can be fun and interesting with our tours for kids!

31/01/2023

One of the most interesting fountains of modern Rome dating to 1927 by Pietro Lombardi. It celebrates the books and faculties of the nearby University of Rome, one of the oldest in the world, established in 1303.

31/01/2023

Roasted Chestnuts sold on the streets of Italy. They are picked in October and they are mostly used boiled or roasted. Many are the cakes made with chestnut dough.

30/01/2023

The monument to the unknown soldier of Italy is one of the most impressive landmarks of the country

28/01/2023

Did you know that you can see a real finger of Galileo by visiting his museum in Florence?
Galileo's body was initially buried without pomp. When, 95 years later, his remains were transferred into the Basilica of Santa Croce, someone took some of his bones as a souvenir!

28/01/2023

Pizza with Puntarelle is a typical Roman pizza topped with a type of chicory called Puntarelle that you can find only in winter. Join our food tours to taste them.

14/01/2023

Little artists learning perspective drawing at the Uffizi Gallery.

14/01/2023

If you travel to Florence during your stay in Italy try the local tasty and healthy Ribollita Soup

12/01/2023

The Etruscan tombs in Cerveteri are just amazing and the sun is till shining in January!

10/01/2023

The charming Santa Croce Church on a rainy night.

10/01/2023

Saint Peter’s square in the Vatican tonight

06/01/2023

January the 6th is National Holiday in Italy.
We celebrate Ephifany, the day when the three Wise Man, the Re Magi, got in Jerusalem to visit the new born Jesus, bringing him gifts.

Italian kids are used to celebrate this feast placing their stocking on the fireplace at night.
During the night the "Befana", a good witch who travels the world flying on a magical broom, comes to their house bringing them candies and sweet coal.
To celebrate the feast some Befanas jumped off a building in piazza Repubblica, Florence, and offered candies to the thrilled children.

04/01/2023

Fresh Truffles are the Jewels of the Farmers:-)

04/01/2023

“Angels Unawares” by Timothy Shmaltz in the Vatican City

29/12/2022

Pizza making with Luca, one of the best Pizza makers in Florence, during our illuminated Florence tour with Pizza & Gelato. Always so fun!

18/12/2022

It is the main prize of these days...the football world cup is made and designed in Italy. In 1971 mr Silvio Cazzaniga won the Fifa context to create the new cup. Still today the cup is made near Milan in a town called Paderno Dugnano.

07/12/2022

Saint Peter's square in Rome tonight with xmas tree and nativity scene

04/12/2022

Why do we call a type of font Italics? Anything to do with Italy?
The name comes from the fact that calligraphy-similar fonts were first designed in Renaissance Italy, to replace documents traditionally written in a handwriting style. Printers Aldo Manuzio and Ludovico Arrighi were the main type designers involved in this process at the time.

03/12/2022

The beauty and the charm of Florence’s architectural elements have appeared many times in movies. While walking through the city center you may recognize in Santa Maria del Fiore the setting of the seduction scene of "The Portrait of a Lady", or some familiar places where Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands walked by in the movie "A room with a view", like Santa Croce, Piazza della Signoria and Arno river side.

29/11/2022

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."
The traditional Christmas Market in Piazza Santa Croce.

22/11/2022

When you finally find the real David, after seeing a bunch of replicas around Florence.

15/11/2022

The huge hall of 500 in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, is the largest room for civil power in Italy.
Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were commissioned to decorate the huge walls of the hall but they never completed the project. Can you imagine how special would it be admiring a fresco by Michelangelo and one by Leonardo, together, in the same hall?
The hall and the whole palace were then decorated by Giorgio Vasari and some other great artists, such as Bronzino. The final result absolutely worth a visit!

13/11/2022

A traditional Italian autumn dish: soup with chick peas chestnuts and mushrooms. Delicious!

11/11/2022

Did you know that there is a colorful dragon overseeing Florence from a beautiful garden in the city?
To meet the dragon visit the "Orti del Parnaso", the upper part of the "Giardino dell'Orticoltura". Just outside the city center and the busy tourist area, the Orticoltura is a very nice and quiet spot for a stroll, with an amazing view of the city.

07/11/2022

San Gimignano is a little gem in Tuscany: an uphill town, still protected by the original medieval wall, surrounded by the beautiful Tuscan countryside.
San gimignano is famous for many reasons. Some of them are:
The unique skyline thanks to the 13 medieval tower houses still in town, the traditional production of saffron and Vernaccia white wine and a gelato shop that won the award for the best gelato in the world (where you can also taste the vernaccia wine gelato flavor!)

02/11/2022

One reason to love the fall season: the porcini mushrooms dishes that you can find pretty everywhere, like this delicious risotto with raspberry sauce.

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Did you know that you can see a real finger of Galileo by visiting his museum in Florence? Galileo's body was initially buried without pomp. When, 95 years later, his remains were transferred into the Basilica of Santa Croce, someone took some of his bones as a souvenir!