DI SIMONE BANDINI In order for a real, physical place to maintain its symbolic relevance alongside its architectural shape, its space must be open – with precise exchanges between material and transcendental reality. I realize intuitively and suddenly that here – at the Rocca di Staggia – I am in one of these places. Donatella […]
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BY GIOVANNI SALVIETTI In autumn, when the trees undress themselves, and let their leaves fall, as if they were daughters making light silk dresses for themselves, the olive tree bears its fruits created with difficulty in a long-awaited gestation. Thanks to an ancient process of transformation its liquid gold is distilled: extra virgin olive oil, […]
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DI GIOVANNI SALVIETTI Poggibonsi, early 20th Century, Dei Natale is known throughout the town for its vinegar plant: its demijohns at the ready and also takes care of hardware, guns and knives, all in Via Maestra in the heart of the commercial district of that era. We talk to the current owners of the business, […]
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At the Il Roseto nursery with Luca and Sabrina the couple who own it with their collaborators, Nike and Sabrina we discovery of the rose . . .
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We go in search of the amazing historical and architectural heritage of Radda in Chianti accompanied by two of its most exceptional citizens.
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In a spirit of effective re-creation, Daniele brought the old Pitena up to present day standards, giving an authentic space for sociability.
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The cuisine at Al Ponte restaurant in Gaiole in Chianti expresses an irresistible koinè of Tuscan tradition with exoticism from the Near East. All this thanks to the lucid ambition of Admir and Alma Selimanovic – who also contribute to the management of mother and chef Fata’s Il Celliere in Castagnoli. Their secret? A very […]
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At the Municipality of Castellina in Chianti we meet up with Giuseppe Stiaccini, the city councillor responsible for the Via Romea.
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The Loggia del Chianti is truly a loggia in Chianti. The rosebush at the window says it all, it’s a rosebush at the window of a loggia in Chianti. Patrizia Ermini and Michele Bianco welcome us to this large restaurant, with the familiarity and grace of those who welcome you into their own home. […]
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I met Gordon Breckenridge a couple of years ago, in the Val d’Orcia, at a restaurant. Just by chance, on a day out of time, in the cool shade of a Wisteria, tasting Tuscan specialities. Even then I was struck by his generous sociability and his desire to communicate, typical of an artist who is […]
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Gessica Novelli is waiting for us with her generous smile early this morning in the offices of Nuova Casa Toscana Immobiliare.
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We are just outside the town of Radda in Chianti, in a beautiful space with a wonderful view where once there was ‘nothing’. The Lapis [pencil] joinery has been operating here for almost 50 years. Young (almost 24) Giacomo Lapis is the first to meet us. He tells us that the company was founded […]
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The Poggio Amorelli farm and the Mazzarrini family at the property of Poggio ai Laghi, near Lake Sant’Antonio in Monteriggioni.
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Villa Solissimo is a beautiful place at the entry of the old village of Lucignano, in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti, Siena.
read more >“It is properly called Albola, a slope known for its vineyards, from which you may get the best wines of Chianti” notes Emanuele Repetti in 1841, in his Dizionario Fisico geografico del Granducato di Toscana. We meet right here, among the highest hills of Chianti Classico, in a townlet that has its roots in […]
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