Florence, Italy Travel News

I regard the magnificent new show at the V&A as essentially a taster a ' an invitation to voyage back from Kensington to origin Every morning Britain's museum curators go down on their knees and pray: "Lord, save me from temptation.

Fashion fans planning a trip to Florence in the new year will be in for a treat if they visit the city during January.

Profile: With her famous name and B-movie beauty background, Nicoletta Machiavelli offers Seattle an inviting gateway to Italy.

Happy co-existence Time travelling in Tuscany I remember the burnt Siena in my big box of watercolours when I see the colour of the earth around Siena - Italy's best preserved medieval city.

You'll spend at least 40 a day seeing 'classic' Florence. Use our guide, from the author of the city's new iPhone app, and you can save your pennies for postcards and coffees If you love Renaissance art, a trip to the Uffizi is a no-brainer. In no other world museum is time so tangible.

Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed by admirers from the astronomer's body in 1737.

First of all thank you for the Venice advise. We ended up having an amazing meal at Alle Trestiere.

Occasionally, even those on holiday in Florence need an escape from their vacation.

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The body of a 19-year-old Marist College student and John Jay High School graduate who died Friday after falling off the steps of the Basilica of Santa Maria Ara Coeli in Italy could be returned to the United States by the end of this week.

To paraphrase Dorothy Parker upon her return to her New Yorker column after a long absence, maybe you just thought I was out in the ladies room this whole time, but there's no truth to it.

The Staedel Museum is bringing the blue skies of the Renaissance to a gray Frankfurt winter.

An East Central University sponsored trip to Venice, Florence and Rome takes place in May 2010.

A bridge in the centre of Bath which has shops built into it - like the famous Ponte Vecchio in Florence - may be shut to traffic.

About five years ago, my husband and I went on a tour of Italy. We went to Rome, Capri, Sorrento, Lake Como, Venice and Florence.

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ON a midsummer afternoon in the courtyard of a former convent, a musical performance illustrated the shape of changes taking hold in the Oltrarno district of Florence .

For the past few weeks, I've been travelling in Italy and England, seeing gardens and other stuff.

Getting there: Volterra is 2 1/2 hours by bus from Florence. Montepulciano has a train station, but it's a bus ride or steep walk to the city center.