As well described by Plato – someone who understood idealism and foundational values – in Book VIII of “The Republic”, democracy converts into tyranny when the excess of freedom generates chaos and pushes the people to seek an authoritarian leader. Do you notice any similarities with our times?
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At the heart of the celebrations is Piazza Grande, where the Tyrolean Village’s wooden chalets stand against the backdrop of the Vasari Loggias, the apse of the Pieve church and the Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici
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At the heart of their work is one guiding principle: a garden should first and foremost be a place to live in.
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Mushrooms, truffles, chestnuts and pumpkin. Then game, fine cuts of meat and warmer, more comforting dishes.
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Enoteca Vini di Toscana has been able to anticipate the times, structuring a wine investment model that promises an annual return of up to 10 percent.
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The three-day program is packed with parades, challenges, and reenactments. The festival unfolds over an intense weekend full of events.
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Palazzuolo sul Senio is not a place you pass through. You arrive here on purpose, climbing to where the Apennines turn to ridgeline and Tuscany begins to resemble Romagna
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Fencing is a “state of mind,” a school of discipline, concentration, and respect. Not everyone knows that it is the sport that has earned Italy the most Olympic medals.
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We live in an age of constant hyperconnection, where space is saturated and time is a perpetually fragmented resource. There is, however, a geographical and emotional boundary beyond which the noise of the world suddenly dies down, leaving room for a silence that heals. That border coincides with the sinuous profile of the hills of the Val d’Orcia.
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By Simone Bandini (…) “You don’t remember the house of this evening of mine. And I don’t know who goes and who stays” Eugenio Montale, The House of the Customs Officers (1930) Summer, or the season of holidays and lightness for many, of heaviness, bad taste and oppressive heat for others. […]
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From pure lines to millimetre-precise stitching, each bag is a masterpiece of symmetry. The leathers chosen are exclusively of the highest quality: full-grain calfskin, goat, solid palladium or brass for the hardware.
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The Colfiorito Marsh is currently the only area of the plateaus where water remains year-round, serving as a focal point for a large number of birds, which build their nests, reproduce, and feed among the reeds.
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The miracle of the reconciliation of Arezzo’s families caused such a sensation that, a few decades later (1295–1299), Giotto immortalized it in the fresco The Expulsion of the Devils from Arezzo, painted in the Upper Church of the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi.
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Modern mining activities are in fact subject to rigorous environmental controls and very high safety standards.
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Among the restaurant’s signature dishes, the result of Alessandro and Angelica’s ongoing culinary experimentation, stands the famous mango carbonara
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The history of the Santoni Distillery began in 1960 thanks to the vision of Gabriello Santoni.
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