Travel - Finestre sull'Arte

Grosseto and the Maremma, the strength of the land

In one of his 1948 articles, Carlo Cassola had compared Grosseto to Kansas City: or rather, the comparison was attributed to an American serviceman who had passed through the Tuscan town during the war and noted the similarities between the two citie...
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Livorno and the sea, a thousand-year history that begins with the Etruscans

If there is a place where the sea is not just a geographic boundary, but a soul that has shaped its history and brings it to life, that place is the province of Livorno. Here, the sea is not just an element of the landscape, but an essential componen...
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The mystery of the parish church of Montesorbo in Romagna

Distant from the hubbub of the road, at 441 meters above sea level, isolated midway between the villages of Sarsina and Ciola, in inland Romagna, a small but precious church of mysterious age insists on the path of San Vicinio. It is the parish churc...
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Because innovation is written in Pisa's DNA

There is a thread that runs through the centuries and binds Pisa and its entire territory to a key concept of modernity:innovation. This is no accident or recent phenomenon: Pisa has always been, since ancient times, a laboratory of ideas, experiment...
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The traumas of Urbania and its Ducal Palace.

Urbania enshrines within the walls of its Ducal Palace the poetry of Federico Barocci. Most enter here to get a close-up look at the Madonna of the Clouds, the beautiful painting attributed to him that is revealed at the end of a winding path through...
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From the Apuan Alps to the Apennines, between the mountains of Massa-Carrara and Lunigiana

"All you have to do is climb the mountains, in Apuania, and the landscape itself lends itself to being a setting for visions. That then already the marble is a swarm of marine life, carbonate sediments produced in what were once coral reefs. Those la...
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The "small world" of Brisighella, in inland Romagna.

Territories, some territories, also resist. To the outrages of time, to earthquakes and floods, to the disasters of History. They resist abandonment, they do not yield to the Siren song that whispers of other speeds, other places and escapes. Staying...
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Lucca, a land where independence is breathed

To understand how Lucca has always been tied to its independence, one might begin with the story of Francesco Burlamacchi, a Lucca politician born in 1498, who became Gonfaloniere of the Republic of Lucca in 1533. His political project was to unite a...
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