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30/08/2024

🇺🇸 “Sitting Exactly Where My Grandfather Sat In WWII, 1944 VS. 2014. Arno River, Florence Italy” ⚜️

15/08/2024

Buon a tutti!
But, what is that? ’s Ancient Tradition Explained:

As far as many people in Italy are concerned, 15th is the height of summer - and that in itself is worth celebrating.
But the holiday has a very long history. August 15th is when celebrate the Assumption, or the ascendance of the Virgin Mary into heaven. However, it was a holiday in Italy long before it took on a religious significance.

Ferragosto, the Italian name for the holiday, comes from the Feriae Augusti (the festivals of the Emperor Augustus) which were introduced back in 18 BC, probably to celebrate a battle victory, and were celebrated alongside other ancient Roman summer festivals. These festivities were linked to the longer Augustali period – intended to be a period of rest after months of hard labour.
In times, the celebrations included horse races. Even today, Siena’s Palio dell’Assunta usually takes place on August 16th.
The holiday now combines both its ancient Roman and Catholic roots with marking the semi-official peak of Italy’s summer holiday season.

It’s traditional to use the August long weekend to take a trip out of the city, usually escaping the heat at the seaside, lakes or mountains, so if you stay in town you’ll notice it’s much quieter than usual.
During the era of , the regime would organise trips with special offers for the 13th-15th August, the idea being that less well-off workers would get the opportunity to visit a different part of the country.

Even today there are often discounts on packages for the Ferragosto – though you may find that train tickets and hotel rooms sell out fast.
And of course, many Italian families go away on longer vacations at this time of year too.

09/08/2024

🆕🏡📣 A Renaissance palace from 1444 decorated by Michelozzo, (architect of the Medici) today is the ideal place to discover Firenze and its treasures. You will sleep in wonderful, ancient frescoed rooms and rest in halls full of history and art. The deeply evocative atmosphere makes what every traveler desires possible: the experience of an authentic, unique and absolutely special Florence.

13/07/2024

Sunflower time in 🌻
Monteroni d’Arbia, , July 2024.

19/06/2024

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14/05/2024

A couple of travelers who are definitely not taking a private tour with Flow Traveling 💤

08/05/2024

It seems like a photomontage but it’s reality! mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in di Valpolicella, , 🍇

30/04/2024

🇮🇹 When they say: lunch by the sea.

14/04/2024

Domenica: refuel your soul.

04/04/2024

Have you ever realized that: 🇮🇹🗺️
is as far east as
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and have the same latitude
and are on the same meridian
and are equally in the south

30/03/2024

May you never lack: health, love and travel.
Happy Easter, travelers.

28/03/2024

Wake up like this 🐚

26/03/2024

This month we had the great pleasure of visiting our Australian partners. Thank you all for giving us the opportunity to learn about a new culture, make friends, solidify old ones and visit insane places! 🇦🇺🦘

22/03/2024

20 March 1998; Alitalia Boeing 747 “Portofino Baci Perugina cs” at Tokyo Narita (NRT)

06/03/2024

morning winter lights during our of tour.
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26/02/2024

La in Florence, the oldest in the world reopens! 📣

After a long redevelopment project financed by the University of and the Region, the La Specola Natural History Museum, part of the Florentine University Museum System, reopened to the public on 22 February in Florence. Visitors will therefore be able to discover the new routes - the botanical and mineralogy waxworks - set up after the intervention and rediscover the historic zoology collection; the other routes, however, from the anatomical waxworks to the Skeleton Hall, from the Galileo Tribune to the Torrino, will be open to visitors by appointment starting from March 1st.

23/01/2024

The hands-down best Affogato in at Vivoli 🍦☕️

What is the al Caffè? A hot espresso poured over vanilla gelato in a prechilled cup, a drinkable perfection.

Where? Gelateria , historic ice cream shop in Florence.
The birth of the ice cream parlor dates back to the last century, in 1929, when the Vivoli family opened a small dairy in the Santa Croce district of Florence. But it was only a few years later, in 1932, that his brother Raffaello decided to transform the business into an ice cream shop. Today the business is managed by the grandchildren Patrizia and Silvana who, with their quality work, have also won the Due Coni in ’s Gelaterie d’Italia 2023 guide.
At Vivoli you can eat high quality ice cream and the offer ranges from traditional flavors such as cream or zabaione, to more particular ones such as peach with basil, lemon flavored with rosemary, rich chocolate, salted caramel, pears and caramel, Vin santo and cantucci. And of course, don’t miss the coffee Affogato!

21/01/2024

When the was navigated in the 1930s.
Now, we sail aboard the Ranioli’s small boats: discover our booklet of private tours on flowtraveling.com ✨

10/01/2024

This pic explains why is called that! The name derives from the Latin Locus Rotundus, which means round place. This name derives from the first half of the 13th century, when the village expanded to the top of a hill enclosed in the city walls, taking on the circular shape that still characterizes it today ✨

26/12/2023

“Baby it’s cold outside”
26 December: countryside and

24/12/2023

Flow Traveling wishes you happy holidays!

05/12/2023

🍝 Italia PASTA recipes?
The Flow Traveling’s guide 😎

21/11/2023

The in is . ✨

Among the most beautiful cities in Europe there are also many Italian cities. However, not everyone knows that according to the American travel magazine , a city in our beautiful country is the most beautiful on the old continent, a destination to visit at least once in a lifetime. No, it is not the capital Rome, as you may be thinking, but rather Florence.

To tell the truth, this judgment is nothing new. In fact, Florence was first in the already in 2019 and 2020. The cradle of the is loved above all for the and that can be savored in every corner, a city that deserves to be visited on foot in order to discover every his littlest secret.

19/11/2023

✨ Reopening to the public tomorrow, The in turns over a new leaf in its 109 years of culture.

📚 Open seven days a week, from 8:30 in the morning to the end of each night’s film, , or GO, as it is styled, maintains its mission as a cinema. One screen guarantees night-time movie projections, while a LED wall, unique in central Italy, ensures daytime entertainment in Italian and English. What immediately grabs the attention, however, are the bookshelves lined with 25,000-plus titles occupying the entire ground floor, including the foyer.

🎬 The cinema/theatre opened in 1922 in Palazzo dello Strozzino, one of the most striking palazzos in central Florence, which Palla Strozzi had had built in 1457 according to a design by Filippo and developed by di Bartolomeo Michelozzi. In 1914, based on the advice of actress Eleonora Duse, the new owners decided to inaugurate a stylish cinema hall, entrusting Florentine architect Adolfo Coppedè with the plans, which were brought to a close by another renowned architect, Marcello Piacentini. This exceptional edifice boasting elegant Art Déco-style interiors, sculptures by Antonio Maraini and tapestries by Matilde Festa Piacentini, opened as Cinema Teatro Savoia with a glamorous gala night on December 14, 1922. In 1936, it was taken over by Giovanni Germani before going on to host world-class film premieres, theatre performances and musicals over the years. It was renamed Cinema-Teatro Odeon when it was reopened in 1946 after the Second World War. Managed by the Germani family for 87 years, the Odeon has welcomed Italian and international stars like Louis Armstrong, Isabelle Adjani, Kate Winslet, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci and Paolo Sorrentino. Now, in 2023, Gloria Germani made the decision to embrace a partnership with publishing house Giunti Editore in order to secure a future for the cultural centre.

15/11/2023

📣 ’s “secret room” opens regularly for visitors, in the basement of the .

😮 It is thought that the artist had lived there secretly for a few months in 1530 and that he had used it to sketch some of his works on the walls.

🔎 In November 1975, a suitable new exit for the museum was being sought. The then director of the museum, , instructed the restorer to carry out cleaning tests in a narrow corridor beneath the apse of the New Sacristy. The small room—10 metres long, three metres wide, and two and a half metres high at the top of the vault—was used to store slack coal until 1955. It had remained unused, sealed and forgotten for decades below a trapdoor covered by wardrobes, furniture and stacked furnishings. Removing two layers of plaster, Giovannoni discovered several figure drawings in charcoal and sanguine on the walls that Dal Poggetto mostly attributed to Michelangelo. His theory was that they had been carried out while the artist sought refuge in this space in 1530, when the Prior of San Lorenzo, , hid him from the wrath of VII, who was infuriated because the artist (during the period in which the Medici were driven out of the city) had served as supervisor of the city’s fortifications for the short-lived republican government (1527-30). He obtained the family’s forgiveness after around two months, between the end of June and the end of October 1530, when he was finally free and resumed his duties in until he left the city for Rome in 1534. Dal Poggetto posited the theory that the drawings produced during the artist’s “self-confinement” used the walls to “sketch out” some of his projects, such as works from the New Sacristy like the legs of Giuliano de’ , Duke of Nemours, and details such as the head of Laocoön. The works are still the subject of scholarly debate.

🚪 The will be open on an experimental basis to small groups of visitors until March 30, 2024.

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06/11/2023

The (rare) spectacle of the in .

An so far south has probably never been seen before. It happened Sunday evening in many parts of , from Poland to Slovenia. But also in Italy, in the Alps and... in , in Val d'Orcia. The atmospheric event, characterized by long colored bands that cross the celestial vault - in this case taking on red and pink tones in particular - was photographed in the municipality of Pienza, in the Spedaletto area. According to the opinion of experts, it would have been caused by a category 3 solar storm on a scale of 5. Only a lucky few were able to immortalize the celestial vault.

31/10/2023

⚜️ Today we tell the story of the symbol of , the , that the city has proudly carried on her coat of arms for almost a thousand years.

🏛️ The origin of the lily symbol can be traced back to the ruling class of the Empire. It is possible that the Florentine version was derived from that symbol.

🌷 But he simplest and more plausible explanation for the symbol of Florence is that it was derived from the flower that traditionally grows in the area around the city: Fiorentina.

⚔️ This beautiful white flower was first applied to the city’s coat of arms in the 11th century; it was white on a red background. After the bloody battle between the and the , which ended in 1250 with a victory for the Guelphs, they switched the colors as a sign of their power, thus creating the famous symbol of the red giglio on a white background.

📖 In the Divine Comedy Alighieri describes the eve of this event as follows: ‘The lily of the flagpole was not yet reversed and not colored red by division…’

🪙 The new arm was so important to Florence that in 1252 it graced the first Florin that was ever created.

⚜️ The Giglio Fiorentino can be found on countless places in the city. On old coats of arms on historic buildings, but also on the numerous logos like that of the municipality of Florence and the football club. It is even tattooed on the skin of many Florentines and is truly present... everywhere.
Florence and her giglio have been inseparable for 10 centuries and that is not going to change any time soon.

🌸 And a unique place in the world, the , near Piazzale , is the only botanical garden dedicated to this variety in Europe. It was created with the aim of hosting an annual international competition for the best varieties of iris, the "Florence Prize", first launched in 1954!

26/10/2023

Accademia and Michelangelo’s David powered by ❤️‍🔥

22/10/2023

Florence walking tour glimpse_
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12/10/2023

This week we attend , the main B2B in %Italy 🇮🇹 A big opportunity to make our tailoring services known and search for new trends, tourism formats and consumer inspiration ✨

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