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You cannot visit Florence without visiting the Accademia Gallery Museum! This is where the most famous sculpture in the world, Michelangelo’s David, is housed, along with many other sculptures and paintings from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Since everyone wants to see David, the museum is (almost) always crowded and with long queues. For this reason, I wrote this

Rome and Florence are two unmissable stops during a trip to Italy, and they are quite close to each other. The best way to move from one city to another in Italy is by train, and in this post I will explain how to go from Florence to Rome by train (and vice versa). Let me tell you that trains

Pisa is a very popular destination for those visiting Italy, most famous for its leaning tower. In addition to the leaning tower, there is much more: Pisa is a university town with a lively and fascinating historical centre and several museums to visit. And of course the monumental complex of Piazza dei Miracoli. Being very close to Florence, you can

Squares, or piazze in Italian (in the singular it’s piazza), are an essential element of Italian cities, and especially of Florence. Ancient churches full of artistic masterpieces often overlook the squares. Many of the most beautiful and oldest piazzas in Florence were born in the Middle Ages thanks to the churches and monasteries, which needed an external space in which