Tuscany Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia
Tuscany is a legendary region in central Italy that stretches from the Apennine Mountains to the west coast, meandering through endless vineyards, medieval towns and the impossibly beautiful cities of Florence, Siena and Pisa.
In today’s modern world, defined by alarm clocks, deadlines and traffic jams, Tuscany lures travelers with the promise of a warmer, gentler way of living.
Here, high art mingles deliciously with warm sunshine and fragrant wine. History seeps through the cobblestones and small occasions are transformed into the greatest of pleasures.
Around six hundred years ago, Tuscany changed the world forever when economic, cultural and political forces collided, sparking the Renaissance. It was a new way of thought in which art and education were highly prized and the search for happiness, a noble goal.
Although the world has changed much since then, Tuscany’s values hold firm and visitors to this region can happily spend days and weeks slowly rediscovering them.
Arezzo Tourist Attractions: 10 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Arezzo? Check out our Arezzo Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Arezzo.
Top Places to visit in Arezzo:
Eremo Le Celle, La Verna, Pieve di Romena, Piazza Grande, Duomo San Donato, Santa Maria della Pieve, Piazza della Repubblica, Castello dei Conti Guidi di Poppi, San Domenico Church, Church of San Francesco
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Tuscany : Greve in Chianti and Arezzo [Italy Travel 2019]
Visiting Tuscany, Greve in Chianti and Arezzo [Travel 2019 - Italy].
Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its influence on high culture.
Tuscany produces wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano and Brunello di Montalcino. Having a strong linguistic and cultural identity, it is sometimes considered a nation within a nation.
Tuscany is a popular destination in Italy, the main tourist spots are Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Versilia, Maremma and Chianti.
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Poppi: Pretty Medieval Borgo In Tuscany!
Video tour of Poppi, in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, a cute medieval borgo in Italy where the popular movie Il ciclone was filmed.
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Poppi Italian village, Province Arezzo, Tuscay
Poppi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 40 km (25 mi) east of Florence and about 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Arezzo.
Main sights:
Poppi Castle, or the Castello dei Conti Guidi, the main building in the Casentino, known from 1191, was owned by the Counts Guidi. It has additions by Arnoldo do Cambio. It has a courtyard, an external staircase, its chapel with frescos and its library containing rare manuscripts and incunabula.[2]
Hermitage of Camaldoli, the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order.
Church of Madonna del Morbo in the centre of the town, containing a painting of the Virgin attributed to Filippino Lippi.
The annual festival commences in the upper town on 29 June, when a large procession bears the image of the Virgin from the Church of Madonna del Morbo to the Church of Saints Marco and Lorenzo, where it remains for the duration of the week.
The Museo e Arboreto Carlo Siemoni is a historic ducal villa and arboretum.
Palazzo Crudeli, birthplace of Tommaso Crudeli condemned by the Catholic Church as heretic. He belonged to the first Freemason Lodge of Italy established by the English colony in Florence, 1732. He died in the same Palazzo after torture and imprisonment.
Poppi ist eine Gemeinde in Italien mit 6358 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2011) und gehört zur Provinz Arezzo. Sie zählt zu den schönsten Dörfern Italiens.
Während Poppi heute abseits der wichtigen Verkehrswege liegt und wenig bekannt ist, spielte es im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert als Hauptsitz einer Adelsfamilie, der Guidi, eine wichtige Rolle in der Geschehnissen der Toskana zwischen Arezzo und Florenz und somit zwischen Ghibellinen und Guelfen. Gekrönt wird Poppi durch die Burg der Grafen Guidi (Castello dei Conti Guidi), die die Stadt und das Casentino beherrscht. 1441 und somit vergleichsweise spät, kam Poppi unter die Herrschaft der Republik Florenz, womit die Vertreibung der Guidi zugleich am äußersten Endpunkt der alten Feudalherrschaften in der Toskana stand.
Der Name „Poppi lässt sich etymologisch auf den Begriff „poplo, also „Anhöhe oder „Hügel, aus der tyrrhenischen Sprachepoche zurückführen. Daher liegt es nahe, dass bereits vor dem 8. Jahrhundert eine Siedlung dieses Namens gegründet wurde. In Quellen erwähnt wird Poppi allerdings erst im 12. Jahrhundert.
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Places to see in ( Arezzo - Italy ) Casa di Giorgio Vasari
Places to see in ( Arezzo - Italy ) Casa di Giorgio Vasari
La Casa Vasari is a palace Arezzo located in Via XX Settembre 55. It was the family residence of the painter, architect and art historian Giorgio Vasari and preserves valuable frescoed rooms. The artist bought this house around 1540 and, busy between Florence, Rome and his travels, he lived there for short periods, but intervening directly in both the works of completion and decoration, including the scattered nucleus of furniture. He had also designed a façade, which was never built.
An example of the best preserved in the region of an artist's house and mansion of Mannerist style, it was the property of Vasari's heirs until their extinction, in 1687 , when it passed to the Fraternity of the Laity. Sold to a private family, the Brozzi family, in 1897, passed to the Paglizzi family and finally it was bought by the State in 1911 , which made it a museum open to the public. It is also home to the Vasari Archive.
You reach the main floor through a staircase surmounted by the bust of Giorgio Vasari of an unknown five-seventeenth-century Tuscan. The first room you meet is that of the Camino, frescoed by Vasari in 1548 with the Envy of Envy and Fortune by Virtue in the ceiling and on the walls allegorical figures, landscapes and stories of the painters of antiquity. On the right is the chapel, with a Madonna di Fra Paolino and a rare original 16th century majolica floor.
The corridor of Ceres, or of the Dragons, shows some paintings of late Mannerism, including a Circumcision attributed to Mirabello Cavalori and the Death of Adonis by Jacopo Zucchi . On the left is the Bridal Chamber with a ceiling decorated by a fresco by Vasari di Abraham among the allegorical figures of Peace , Concordia , Virtue and Modesty . Among the paintings, the Alms of Saint Nicholas of Giovanni Stradano , the Christ brought to the tomb of the young Vasari and, of the same, a Judas. The corridor leads to the former kitchen, frescoed by Raimondo Zaballi in 1827 and decorated with portraits of the 16th century, especially from Tuscany. The House of Apollo was frescoed by the landlord with Apollo and the nine Muses and the Allegory of conjugal love , where is the portrait of his wife, Nicolosa Bacci. Among the paintings shown here are the St. Francis of Alessandro Allori , the mirror container with Prudence , attributed to the same, the Casa del Sole del Poppi , the San Girolamo and the Fortuna by Jacopo Ligozzi .
In the Chamber of Fame Vasari painted the Fama on the ceiling and on the pediments and the lunettes (very repainted) the four Arts , his self-portrait and portraits of the Arezzo artists or the territory of Arezzo: Lazzaro Vasari , Luca Signorelli , Spinello Aretino , Bartolomeo della Gatta , Michelangelo and Andrea del Sarto . The Crucifixion is by Giovanni Stradano (1581), the glazed polychrome terracotta with Galba by Andrea Sansovino , the table of Charity by Carlo Portelli. A small adjoining room contains the wooden model of the Loggia del Vasari , built in Arezzo, the Madonna with the Child, Sant'Elisabetta and San Giovannino of Santi di Tito and three sections of the predella by Maso da San Friano .
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AREZZO (Tuscany-Italy) - TOUR DELLA CITTA' -
Arezzo (Arretium in latino, Aritim in etrusco) è un comune italiano di 99 587 abitanti, capoluogo dell'omonima provincia in Toscana. Conosciuta nel mondo come Città dell'oro e della Giostra del Saracino.La città di Arezzo è situata alla confluenza di tre delle quattro vallate che compongono la sua provincia. Direttamente a Nord della città ha inizio il Casentino, che è la valle percorsa dal primo tratto dell'Arno; a Nord-Ovest si trova il Valdarno Superiore, sempre percorso dall'Arno nel tratto che scorre fra Arezzo e Firenze; a Sud si trova la Val di Chiana, una pianura ricavata dalla bonifica di preesistenti paludi, il cui più importante corso d'acqua è il Canale Maestro della Chiana. Tramite l'agevole valico del Torrino e la valle del Cerfone, si ha accesso a Nord-Est alla quarta vallata, la Valtiberina, percorsa dal primo tratto del Tevere.Il territorio del comune è molto ampio e vario: si passa dalla pianura che si apre sulla Val di Chiana e sull'Arno, alle colline, a Sud della città, a zone montuose, soprattutto ad Est. Come conseguenza della grande estensione del territorio comunale i comuni che vi confinano sono numerosi: sul lato della Val di Chiana ci sono Civitella in Val di Chiana, Castiglion Fiorentino, Cortona, Monte San Savino e Marciano della Chiana; sul lato del Valdarno superiore ancora Civitella in Val di Chiana, Laterina e Castiglion Fibocchi; sul lato del Casentino Capolona e Subbiano; sul lato della Valtiberina Anghiari, Monterchi e i due comuni umbri di Città di Castello e Monte Santa Maria Tiberina (toscano fino al 1927).-Get Lost ( extended instrumental ) - JD Dohnal-Ho creato questo video con l'Editor video di YouTube (
Cortona Italy | Things To Do in Tuscany Destinations
The hill town of Cortona in Italy is a relatively peaceful Tuscany destination. After rushing around all the things to do in Tuscany cities such as Florence and Siena, Cortona offers a welcome change in pace.
Walk up to the Fortezza del Girifalco and enjoy the beautiful view from Cortona down the valley, afternoon siestas in Cortona Town Hall Square as you drink coffee and watch life go by.
If you are looking for nightlife then Cortona is not the place for you, but there are a number of other things to do in Cortona including churches and monuments. The walk up to Fortezza Del Girifalco is worth the climb for the views over the Tuscany Countryside.
On my walk to the top of the hill I will show you some of the things to do in Cortona as a tourist in Tuscany including:
Cortona Cathedral
Cortona Town Hall
Teatro Signorelli
The Garibaldi Memorial Monument
Church of San Francesco
Hermitage Le Celle
Basilica di Santa Margherita
and last, and maybe even least considering the entrance fee, the Fortezza del Girifalco.
I enjoyed wandering round the Fortezza del Girifalco, there is lots of history there and I like to wander around ruined castles and forts, however I do not feel that it was worth the 5 Euro entry fee.
All the music in this travel video is taken from a live outdoor classical music performance in Cortona.
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Italian Village of Gargnano, (Italy) - Travel Guide
Take a tour of Italian Village of Gargnano in Gargnano, Italy - part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
Of Italy's lakeside villages, Gargnano, on the shore of Lake Garda, is among the most beautiful.
It is located at the base of one of the region's many steep, picturesque hills.
For much of the year, the hills and mountains surrounding the lake are covered in a thin blanket of snow.
The waterfront of Gargnano has a multitude of pleasant walkways, shady benches, and wonderful cafes.
The waters of Lake Garda are a deep, rich blue, perfect for a swim on a hot day or for boating.
The city owes much of its prosperity to a prominent Italian family, who gave contributions and lodging to Mussolini and his entourage during his reign.