The ceramic tradition of Mugello has truly deep roots. The first records date back to the Renaissance when in the first years of the 1500s Pierfrancesco de’ Medici had a ceramic factory built in Barberino near the Villa of Cafaggiolo.

The Model Forest of the Florentine Mountains is the first Model Forest in Italy. It is situated in an area in Tuscany that spans 548 km squared and comprises seven municipalities: 1. San Godenzo 2. Londa 3. Pontassieve 4. Rufina 5. Pelago 6. Rignano sull’Arno 7. Reggello

Among the many typical Tuscan products “Cantucci and Vin Santo” are definitely the most widespread in the countryside and in the kitchen of Tuscan restaurants.

Everyone who is in Florence in search of lovely panoramas cannot possibly leave out of their itinerary a visit to Villa Bardini and Forte Belvedere, which can both be reached by taking a short walk through ancient streets that unveil immersive gardens.

Dante Alighieri, the great poet, was born in Florence in 1265 and died in Ravenna in 1321. Dante became an important literary figure, as he was a pupil of Brunetto Latini and a devoted student of poetry. He wrote the Vita Nuova (New Life) inspired by Beatrice Portinari with whom he had fallen in love […]

Rufina, for the Tuscans “The Rufina,” is a small town in the Province of Florence. This area between Val di Sieve and the Mugello which includes the municipalities of Dicomano, Londa, Rufina, Pelago and Pontassieve produces the Chianti Rufina, a red wine that has always been appreciated.

According to legend, San Miniato, beheaded on the Arno in the year 1250, picked up his own head and took it to the mountain where he lived as a hermit in a cave, and buried it in that place.

Every year at the end of September in Florence the celebration of the “Carro Matto” takes place, where the city recreates the moment of arrival of the fresh bottling of the newly harvested wine for the year, transported to Florence by cart and white oxen coming from the countryside.