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Lardo di Colonnata PGI

Production, consumption and the culture of “Lardo di Colonnata” have always been linked to the work and life of quarrymen. In order to produce “Lardo di Colonnata” cuts from the fatty tissue from the animal’s back stretching from the occipital region to the rump and laterally to the belly are used. The principal characteristics of [...]

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Pecorino Toscano PDO

“Pecorino Toscano” PDO is made from whole sheep’s milk and veal rennet. The paste is subjected to cooking and breaking until curd granules form that vary in size from that of a kernel of corn for “semi-hard” paste to the size of a hazelnut for “soft”. Then it is pressed and salted before being matured [...]

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Episode # 17 “Doccia” Antiques in Colonnata

Mr. Giorgio Gori leads his antiques activity since he stopped to work as a bank employée. The reason why he shows us his little precious antiques shop called “Doccia” is his true passion for ceramics, majolics and porcelains wares. His love for these handcrafts comes from the place where he lives, Colonnata in the Sesto [...]

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Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale PGI

Over time, the term ‘Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale’ has come to indicate a single “type” of animal belonging to the Chinina, Marchigiana and Romagnola breeds and which is characterized by similarities with regard to morphology and productive performance. Initially used for working the fields, these animals were later selected as specialized, quality meat-producing breeds. Typicity [...]

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Prosciutto Toscano PDO

In Tuscany a rather unique sort of pork breeding has evolved over time: the raising of largely grazed sows to give birth to piglets for fattening elsewhere. Also the original organoleptic characteristics of the hams and cured meats typical of rural production have become famous, giving rise to numerous small, artisan operations where the quality [...]

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Garfagnana Emmer PDO

Emmer (Triticum dicoccum) is the oldest grain to reach our times. Due to dietary changes and the consequential elimination of so-called “poor” foods from the diet, emmer began to disappear toward the end of the 19th century, but in Garfagnana it continued to be produced (also in notable quantities) as it was a product of [...]

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Lunigiana Honey DOP

There are numerous historical references to the origin of Miele della Lunigiana PGI and its close ties to the territory, for example the considerable importance and specialization of beekeeping in Lunigiana, the centuries-old tradition of using honey in the local gastronomy, the use of products (such as medicines) derived from beekeeping, and the local tradition [...]

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The Sorana Bean PGI

With this video TP.tv begins to publish a series of videos about typical tuscan agricultural products realized for ARSIA.TV, official podcasts of tuscan agricultural agency. The ecotype for this bean, which over the centuries has been selected in the small valley of the Pescia river (in the province of Pistoia), is milky white or wine red [...]

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Episode # 16 The coulors of Siena: the pink

The restoration of the facade of the Duomo in Siena, concluded 30 November 2006 showcases the latest innovations regarding the history of facade restoration in Italy. Beginning in the Spring of 2004, initially as a conservational intervention to limit the decay of the marble statues on the facade, the restoration transformed into a project to [...]

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Episode # 15 The coulors of Siena: the blue

“Sky drops” is an installation in the Courtyard of Palazzo Pubblico inspired to Klee. Traditional Christmas installation of the Special Tree by Bambimus, Art Museum for children, which, as from 1998, presents the city with a Christmas tree dedicated to children. quicktime – 13,6 mb wmv – 16,3 mb Siena official website

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Episode # 14 Sketches from La Verna Sanctuary

They say that this winter in Italy is the hottest since more than one hundred years. As you can see in this new video the sun shines on also in La Verna Sanctuary, in the middle of Casentino woods, where Saint Francis of Assisi established in 1200 century living here with his companions in [...]

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Video Recipe # 16 - Tortellini

For Christmas Eve dinner, as every year, Anna Grazia prepares the Tortellini, a typical recipe from Modena, the city where she was bornThe preparation is difficult but is a moment where all the family is involved and this dish is crucial in Christmas dinnerGrazia choose all first class ingredients, from fresh eggs to local meat.Home [...]

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Video Recipe # 15 Panello con l’Uva

The “panello con l’uva” (grapes cake) is a tuscan country traditional dessert that is prepared during grapes gather time.Each family has its own recipe and keep a secret about ingredients and baking methods they use. But what is really important for a good outcome is the choice of the grapes. Simone loves to use [...]

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Episode # 13 Pressing the Grapes

Ten days after grape gathering the must in the tubs slackens thw boiling. Beppe press the remaining grapes and, with Cesare and Felice, decants wine in other tubs or other little recipients depending on the particular wine he wants to get. This is the first step to produce a good Chianti wine. It is in [...]

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Episode # 12 Grape Gathering in Chianti

Within the end of September and the beginning of October Beppe gathers the grapes of his little vineyard of Chianti DOC wine in Laterina, that he grows from years after the manner of old tuscan country-folk. The harvest, that produces about one ton of grapes, is made with simple means and with the helping hands [...]

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Episode # 11 Anghiari

Anghiari is a lovely medieval town lying between two rivers, the Tiber and the Arno. The powerful thirteenth century walls made the town an invincible fortress which constituted an important reference point and kept the Tuscan flag flying during the many historical events that occurred in this delicately balanced border area. On the 29th [...]

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Episode # 10 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: Picking Fruits

It’s harvest time in Lilia’s little rural paradise. In the first week of September, when we filmed this video, I was stunned by the incredible quantity of peaches in the trees, white and yellow pulp varieties. Visiting the garden in this seasons means to live an olfactory experience. We are talking about biodiversity scents: Lilia’s [...]

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Episode # 9 Castiglione della Pescaia

Castiglione della Pescaia is a tourist place with a stunning medieval castle just above the sea side. It is one of the most visited places in Maremma due to the quality of the clean water. From June to September Castiglione is a bathing center with tourists from all over Italy and Europe. The [...]

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Episode # 8 Fosdinovo

I arrived in Fosdinovo coming from Fivizzano: suddenly the castle of Fosdinovo stands in front of me as if it were emerging from a sea of green and blue, covered by the sunny fog of early summer afternoon. The castle is still a private property of Malaspina power family that since XIII century builded [...]

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Episode # 7 Mulazzo

Mulazzo is a village in high Lunigiana, a territory of hills and mountains that is maybe the wildest in all Tuscany region. Lunigiana is a valley at the borders with Emilia Romagna and Liguria along the course of the river Magra. Mulazzo is encircled from the Appennines and the Apuane Alps and, despite its [...]

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Episode # 6 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: The Garden in July

The secret of Lilia’s garden is Lilia herself and the way she loves it. I walked for the first time to her little rural paradise last january. By that time the garden was sleeping and other visits followed since then because I was so interested in showing in our videos the season cycle of [...]

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Episode # 5 Capalbio

A hot sunny afternoon in the wild Maremma leads me to Capalbio, a litlle XII century village sited on low hills approaching to the Costa d’Argento seaside. This village is well known in the italian gossip newspapers because it is often visited by many famous italian politicians, tycoons, showmen and tv personalities. quicktime – 19,2 mb wmv [...]

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Episode # 4 The Ancient City of “Cosa”

Summer in Tuscany is ideal for archeological tourism. The area of Grosseto is rich of roman and etruscan ruins: among them Cosa, near Ansedonia, is a must to see. The town of Cosa stands on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea on a rocky headland (114 m above sea level), that in past ages had [...]

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Episode # 3 The Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Landscape

Ponte a Buriano is the Romanesque bridge along the Setteponti Road represented on the background of Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci. Somone says this is a legend but here everyone you speak with is quite sure: that’s it. The background of the Mona Lisa is a landscape that in effect is very similar to [...]

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Episode # 2 Florence: Sonic Garden La Limonia dell’Imperialino

Sonic garden is an in progress electroacoustical botanical installation by the environmental design team Giardino Sonoro based in Florence at the Limonaia dell’Imperalino. The team leaders are Lorenzo Brusci, musician and sound designer, and Stefano Passerotti, garden designer. Lorenzo is a long time friend and when I met him a few months ago he invited [...]

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Episode # 1 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: The Garden in May

Here I’m am again in Lilia’s Rural Paradise: a guardian of old time agricultural traditions of Tuscany. You can’t understand our culture without meeting people like her. May and June are the months of the year in wich Lilia enjoys the most her garden with the fruit trees and the vegetables that, after the flowering, start [...]

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Video recipe # 14 - Panzanella

Panzanella Ingredients 500 gr. of day old Tuscan-style bread, 2 pieces of celery, 2 onions, one tomato, some fresh basil leaves, 200 ml of extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. quicktime – 24,7 mb ¦ wmv – 14,7 mb Preparation Slice 1/2 kg. of old day Tuscan-style bread. Submerge the slices in [...]

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Show 89 # Pinetum Park

Pinetum Park is located at an altitude of 536 mts above the see along the road between Moncioni and Ucerano. It was created as an experimental wood in 1850 by the lawyer G. Gaeta, who subsequently in 1893 wrote a monograph on the subject, under the title “Conifers”. Since 1998 it Pinetum was listed under protected [...]

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Show # 88 - A Joiner in San Sano

Another windy day with overcast sky in Chianti.The dirt road this time leads us to San Sano, an ancient an distant rural village close to Cassia Vetus road. This village was abandoned after the last war and has been recently rediscovered by English and French. Here we met 80 years old Giuseppe: 40 years ago, [...]

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Show # 87 - Saturday Morning in Semplici’s Confectionery

Andrea Semplici run the “Semplici Confectionery” in San Giovanni Valdarno with his son and his wife. Andrea inherited this activity from his father keeping on a long time tradion of Sienese artisan confectionery. Besides to seasonal preparations or for special events (i.e. Panettone and Panforte for Christmas Eve, Colomba for Easter) Andrea prepare every day fresh [...]

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Show 86 - Olive Tree Pruning in Poggio Cuccule

It’s springtime in Chianti and countrymen are pruning their olive trees.The new branches, also called “succioni”, are pruned to strenght the old ones and increase the plant’s productivity.Usually the branches are cutted and burned in place.quicktime – 16,5 mb ¦ wmv – 10,6 mbGoogle Maps

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Show # 85: Colle Val D’Elsa: Vilca Crystalware

Cristal Ware has always been the main productive field of Colle Val d’Elsa, but only a few today still follows artisan procedures: “Vilca” is one of them. From 1947 the Brogi brothers, Franco and Mario, expressed themselves with glass ware around Europe and in 1962 they founded Vilca in theyrcountry of origin. After eighties [...]

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Video Recipe # 13 - Stuffed Artichokes

Stuffed Artichokes Ingredients 5 artichokes, 50 grams of Parmesan Cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano), a few parsley and garlic, 100 grams of bread crumbs, olive oil, salt, pepper. quicktime – 17,8 mb ¦ wmv – 10,6 mb Preparation For the stuffing: chop parsley and garlic finely and add it to the bread crumbs. Grate 50 gr. parmesan cheese over the mixture [...]

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Show # 84 - The Brolio Castle

This castle, which dates back to the early Middle Ages, stands on the border between the towns of Gaiole and Castelnuovo Berardenga and was remodelled in the early 19th century. The name, which derives from the Longobard term brolo, referred to an orchard or any similar kind of enclosed garden space. Owned by the Ricasoli [...]

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Show # 83 - Vagliagli

Vagliagli è un piccolo paese situato al centro del Chianti.Non dotato di particolari rilevanze architettoniche, è situato però in una posizione da cui si puo’ dominare tutto il chianti senese, godendo di un panorama senza eguali.Da Vagliagli partono molte strade bianche che conducono ad agriturismi e fattorie tra le più importanti di tutto il [...]

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Show # 82 - Florence: Loggia dei Lanzi

The Loggia dei Lanzi is on the corner of the Piazza della Signoria next to the Uffizi Gallery. Standing on the left is Benvenuto Cellini’s bronze statue of the Greek Hero Perseo holding the Medusa’s head in his hand, whilst Gian Bologna’s famous Rape of the Sabine Women is on the right. You can see [...]

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Show # 81 - Siena: L’Orto de’ Pecci

L’Orto de’ Pecci is in the former psychiatric hospital area in Siena and is a green oasis just underneath Piazza del Campo. A dirt path crosses the garden where a co-operative society has maintained it as it always was. You can relax here, play football, have a lunch at the little restaurant inside the garden [...]

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Show # 80 - Siena: Urban Trekking pt.1

Urban trekking is a sport that in Siena is ideal to get to know on foot the beauty of this city. This itinerary starts from the Orti dei Tolomei from where you have a nice view on the city and proceed passing under the Arco di San Giuseppe and walking through Via Duprè, in the [...]

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Show # 79 - Typical Food Productions in Greve in Chianti

The Falorni is an ancient family of butchers that from 1700 lead his activity, in the same place under the arches of Piazza Matteotti in Greve in Chianti. They produce salami, ham, sausages from sienese pigs, wild boar and chianina beef that has become famous in the world expecially thanks to the uncommon commercial [...]

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Show # 78 - Sketches of Florence

Florence: a late february work-day morning. This is a walk that starts from Via della Vigna Nuova passing by the Ponte alla Carraia and Borgo Ognissanti and that arrives in Via della Scala, near the railway station of Santa Maria Novella. While Via della Vigna Vecchia is, together with Via Tornabuoni, the heart of [...]

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Show # 77 - Greve in Chianti

Greve in Chianti is the main wine production center in the florentine chianti area. Greve is still a rural town but last twenty years wine tourism escalation has changed the habits of people that live here and somehow it forced the local culture to meet tourist’s needs and expectations. This video was shooted in [...]

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Video Recipe # 12 - Tripe Florentine Style (Trippa alla Fiorentina)

Tripe, no matter how it is cooked (boiled and cold, with meat sauce, with tomato sauce) is an ordinary dish in Tuscany and expecially in Florence were you can find everywhere kiosks that serve tripe cooked in many ways. Tripe is usually eated at lunch in the families or as a take away at the [...]

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Show # 76 - Scarlett Cherry: A Poem of Montozzi

Scarlett Cherry is an english artist who lives at Montozzi. In an earlier post we showed you her home and her beautiful silky wall hangings. Scarlett is also a poet and in this video she is reading us one of her most evocative poems inspired and written immediately after her first visit to Montozzi. [...]

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Show # 75 - Early Morning by the Ancient Walls of Lucca

In this video you can see the ancient city walls built in the twelfth century by feudal land lords to protects their palaces in the city. These medieval walls were then protected by a moat, and today, unchanged by the passing of time, are where the people of Lucca enjoy walking and early morning [...]

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Video Recipe # 11 - Russian Salad (Insalata Russa)

The so-called Russian salad is a typical tuscan recipe that became very fashionable in the world expecially for dinner parties. You can use whatever concoctions you like for the preparation depending on the vegetables in season you can dispose of. It is very important not to use commercial mayonnaise sauce. You’ll have great results with [...]

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Show # 74 - Monte San Michele

Monte San Michele is the highest hill in Chianti and it is an important observation point on all tuscan territory. From the big iron cross sited on the top, 868 mts high, when the air is clean and bright, after a windy day, you can see Florence, Arezzo, Siena, the Appennino mountains tops like Abetone [...]

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Show # 73 - Panzano in Chianti

Panzano is a little village near Greve in Chianti. It is famous in the world for the well known for butcher Cecchini’s “fiorentina steaks” and for the panoramic views upon Chianti hills that you can admire walking along these ancient roads. quicktime – 13,3 mb ¦ wmv – 8,2 mb Map

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Video Recipe # 10 - Beans ‘Little Birds’ Style With Sausages

Video Recipe # 10 – Beans ‘Little Birds’ Style with sausages Ingredients Beans, tomato sauce, olive oil, sage, sausages. Preparation Cook the beans in water and then strain. Poke the sausages with the tines of a fork and place them in a ungreased pan without condiment. Get out the sausages from the pan and put olive oil. When oil starts [...]

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Show # 72 - Dirt Road from Volpaia to Panzano

One of the most beatiful dirt roads in Chianti and in all Tuscany: a real paradise on earth for those who love slow travel. In this video you can see these places during winter, an unusual period to travel here. Along this road, that we recommend to travel walking, by horse or by bicycle, are located [...]

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Show # 71 - Volpaia

In this video and in the next one we will show you a famous Chianti area were are located many producers of Super Tuscany wines, a highly selected collection of wines coming from Tuscany. Volpaia is a Castle aged about Xth century that has been fully restored in the years and, together with the production [...]

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Show # 71 - Scarlett Laroma: Bright Threads at Montozzi

Scarlett Laroma is english and has lived at Montozzi for five years though her relationship with Italy goes back a long way. She is an artist who works with materials such as silk and velvet and who finds great inspiration amongst the textures, colours and folds. The environment in which she lives, the mountains,the woods, the trees, [...]

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Show # 69 - Rendola: Jenny Bawtree’s House

This video is about Jenny Bawtree , an English professor who who lives in Tuscany from thirty years. She lives in Rendola in Montevarchi municipality in a rural house where she leads, together with her son Nicholas, an agritourism activity and a riding school. Mr. Pietro, an old old farmer that has always lived in Rendola, helps [...]

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Show # 68 - Florence: La Fontana del Porcellino (The Luck-Bearer Boar)

In Florence, on the south side of the Mercato Nuovo’s Loggia – built in 1546 – you can find the “Fontana del Porcellino”, the Piglet Fountain, as Pietro Tacca’s bronze wild boar (1612) is nicknamed by the Florentines. An ancient legend claims that if you make a wish while you touch the animal’s [...]

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Show # 69 - Colonnata’s“Casa del Popolo”Circle: The Dumplings withWild Boar Sauce Dinner

After the preparation of the dumplings in the afternoon the local association of wild boar hunters organize a dinner at the “Casa del Popolo” circle in Colonnata. The aim of the dinner is to raise funds for the activities of the circle. People from Colonnata and abroad pay a few euros for a great [...]

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Video Recipe # 9 - Dumplings Mugellana Style in Colonnata’s “Casa del Popolo” Circle

Dumplings are a popular pasta dish everywhere in Italy. Each family has its own tradition for the preparation of the stuffing and of the sauce. In this video we see a group of friends, a local association of wild boar hunters with their wifes, preparing with a secret recipe a large quantity of dumplings, [...]

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Show # 67 - Ponte Vecchio: The Lovelocks

In this video you can see the birth of a new tradition on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Couples from all over the world come to perform a ritual of promise. In order to assure everlasting love they write their names on little padlocks, and attaching them to any available gate or railing. After a [...]

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Show # 66 - Walking Through Pisa

Pisa is one of most beautiful Tuscan towns, famous worldwide for its leaning tower. But Pisa has many jewels, for example one can enjoy the beautiful vista of the banks of the river Arno, an ancient market located in the heart of the town (Piazza dei Cavalieri), the famous Piazza dei Miracoli (Square [...]

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Video Recipe # 8 - Roast Birds and Pork Livers

Roast Birds and Pork Livers (Arrosto di uccellini e fegatelli di maiale) is an ancient recipe that belongs to our rural and hunting tradition. During smaller bird species hunting season entire families joined on sunday’s lunch to eat these roasted specialities. quicktime – 19,3 mb ¦ wmv – 15,1 mb Roast Birds and Pork Livers [...]

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Show # 65 - Elba’s Island: Enfola Beach

The Enfola promontory, few miles from Portoferraio in Elba’s Island, is connected to the mainland by a small strip of land which forms two beaches: one on the North side and one on the South side. In this video you can see the beach in a winter climax at the sunset. quicktime – 10,5 mb [...]

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Show # 64 - Take the Honey

quicktime – 15,9 mb ¦ wmv – 9,2 mbBrothers Fabrizio and Stefano Castellana put a couple of beehives in their garden a few years ago. They get some lovely honey, especially from the chestnut flowers. Last year Fabrizio moved one of his hives down the road to see how it would do. [...]

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Show # 63 - Countryside around Gargonza Castle

quicktime – 14 mb ¦ wmv – 8,7 mbGragonza is a walled village near Monte San Savino founded in 1200 that overlooks Val di Chiana. The village is now a private property where there is a famous resort. This video shows you the countryside around Gargonza: the woods, the vineyards and the olive [...]

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Show # 62 - Arezzo: Offering of the Candles to Gregorio X

The Giostra del Saracino or “Giostra ad burattum” finds its roots in Medieval times and runs in Arezzo the last week of June and the first of September. The four neighbourhoods of the city corresponding to the Gates of the city of Arezzo participate in the Giostra. The jousters come in galloping and the aim [...]

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Show # 61 - Rapale

Rapale stands on the top of a hill in Val d’Ambra. Rapale’s history begins in 1200 when the castle was built by will of the Ubertini lords. During the centuries the village remained the same and, after the second world war, it was quite completely abandoned by the rural population when most of the [...]

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Show # 60 - Monte San Savino

Monte San Savino overlooks the Val di Chiana from the top of a hill and is one of the more historical and artistic centers of the valley. The great post renaissance painter Andrea Contucci a.k.a. the Sansovino was born here, and the town is dense of art and monuments like the Florentine Gate, The Merchant’s [...]

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Show # 59 - Saturday Afternoon at the “Casa del Popolo” of Colonnata

The circle named “Unione Operaia” (workers union) in Colonnata, in the Sesto Fiorentino municipality was established in the end of the 19th century for the will of Conte Ginori, owner of the world famous pottery manufacture “Richard-Ginori”. The circle was conceived to be a place were factory’s workers could gather and socialize after their work [...]

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Show # 58 - Civitella in Val di Chiana

Civitella in Val di Chiana is situated on a hilltop at 525 meters above sea level in a dominating position, offering striking views of the Val di Chiana and Val d’Ambra. The medieval castle (1048 ac), the city walls, Palazzo Pretorio and the Romanesque church worth really a visit if you are by these places. [...]

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Video Recipe # 7: Canapés with Chicken Livers

One of the most usual appetizers in all tuscany tables is surely the Canapés (crostini) with chicken livers. As usual in ancient home cooking, crostini can be made in a lot of different ways, with slight variations of ingredients. This is my way to prepare them and, believe it, they’re great. The livers comes [...]

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Show # 57 - Mrs. Lilia’s Rural Paradise: Fruit, Vegetables, Preserves

It’s winter and, in her garden, Lilia can only cultivate artichokes and some aromatics inside a greenhouse to protect them from cold. She exclusively grows ancient native breeds, her life passion, to preserve and enhance the richness of biodiversity. In this video Lilia shows us the products that she prepared in summer and autumn to be [...]

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Show # 56 - Leaving Portoferraio

This is a view of Portoferraio, the most important town and tourist port of Elba’s Island, shooted while leaving the island with the ferry boat. You can admire the imposing Medici fortifications on the bay: Fort Falcon, Fort Stella and the Linguella Tower (at the entrance of the harbor), all built in the 15th century [...]

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Show # 55 - Mrs. Lilia’s Rural Paradise: Valdarno Chickens, Turkeys and Peacocks

Mrs. Lilia, a mathematics graduate, retired from work quite soon to dedicate her life to what she loved the most: breeding animals and growing the ancient tuscan cultivars that belonged to her family traditions. So, with her husband, she bought a small piece of ground where she’s coming every day since many years to preserve [...]

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Show # 54 - Cennina after a Snowfall

After a snowfall it’s a beautiful experience to take a walk especially when you are in a very ancient place like Cennina. You can see the castle and the fields full of olive trees completely covered with snow, a street with a little magical cemetery with the cypress trees standing at the gate like [...]

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Show # 53 - Siena

This is Siena during one of the last days of Christmastime 2005. Take a walk with us along the streets and the alleys of Siena. You’ll see also our visit to the cloister of the Accademia Chigiana, the most important musical institution in Siena. Lastly just take the time to see angels fly towards the Torre del [...]

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Video Recipe # 6 - Meatballs (with Boiled Meat)

This recipe shows you how to prepare meatballs with leftover boiled meat. Remnant of foods in ancient rural tradition was always used to cook new recipes: nothing was thrown away because people were much poorer than now and every single remnant was somehow used again. This should be a lesson also for our present bad [...]

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Show # 52 - Abandoned Rural House in Rimacini

Rimacini is a is really an unknown place where you get by a dirt road from Badia a Ruoti or Pietra Viva, in Bucine municipality. There are only a few houses that are mostly dedicated to rural hospitality. In this video we show you a rural house, abandoned fsince the end of world war II, [...]

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Show # 51 - Cetona (pt. 2)

In our second video about Cetona you can see the way up the Castle, also called “La Rocca”. Silence and ancient streets are what you’ll get downloading this video. Map Local Tourist Office” Terre di Siena

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Show # 50 - San Casciano dei Bagni

The “Via Cassia”, one of the most important Roman routes, pass by San Casciano dei Bagni that, during the past centuries, has been always appreciated for its SPA waters. San Casciano is a walled village with a Castle inside that is actually a private property and unfortunately we couldn’t access to it and show it [...]

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Video Recipe # 5 - Arista (Roast Saddle of Pork)

In tuscany, spit or oven-roasted saddle pork is called “àrista”. We usually eat it cold because it’s surely better cold than hot. The loin can be also with the ribs still attached. Simone cook his arista in the fire oven but you can easily cook it in the electric oven. The pork comes from Ivano’ [...]

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Show # 49 - Cetona (pt. 1)

Arriving to the central plaza of Cetona you notice a street billboard where there’s written over “Welcome in Cetona one of Italy’s most beautiful villages”. People here are not boasting themselves but simply telling the truth. Cetona is a jewel, recently discovered by tourists in search of tuscany “as it once was” and by many [...]

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Video recipe # 4 - English Trifle (Zuppa Inglese)

Zuppa Inglese (English Trifle): a spoon dessert for your new year’s eve that is very popular and traditional in many tuscan families with slight variations: this recipe is one of them . It is based on custard, coffee and alkermes where you have to dip the ladyfingers biscuits. Alkermes is a liqueur [...]

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Show # 48 - Florence: Piazza dei Ciompi Flea Market

The flea market of Piazza dei Ciompi, in Borgo Santa Croce district, take place every day and, on every last sunday of the month, it enlarges in the surrounding streets with more than 100 exhibitors. The plaza shows the Vasari’s “Loggia del Pesce” that was located here only in 1955, removed from it’s original destination [...]

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Show # 47 - Florence: San Lorenzo Central Market

San Lorenzo is a central district in Florence where is sited the Central Market, the most important market of foods, fruits, vegetables and beverages of Florence. When you are inside it you become submerged by flavours, noises, voices, faces…it is an intensive training about tuscan cultures about eating and living. Here you can buy [...]

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Show # 46 - Ivano and Tommaso Latest Olives Harvest

Ivano and Tommaso catch the latest olives in the fields just otside their home. This year they had a good harvest because of an accurate spring pruning. They breed so passionately that the loss of a single olive would be a kind of drama: each olive is like a son for them.

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Show # 45 - Christmas Shopping in Florence

During the days before Christmas, Florence is, if possible, an even more busy town because of the people around for their christmastime shopping tours. In this video, shooted in the morning of 22 Dec 2005 at 12:00 A.M., you can see the shops of some of the main streets of central Florence and people eating [...]

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Show # 42 - Close Encounters with Ivano?s Free Pigs

Ivano’s open air pigs-breeding is sited in a small oaks wood. Pigs are free to eat what they find in nature and for sure, when their day will come, they’ll have an unique taste. They really don’t care about humans: when they understood that we have come to visit them they come to us [...]

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Video Recipe # 3 - Spaghetti with Broccoli

Simone takes the Broccoli from his personal cultivation and let us taste them cooked in a very simple and personal way.Spaghetti with BroccoliIngredients4 flowers of Broccoli3 chilly peppers3 slices of garlic14 ounces of spaghettiParmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano)PreparationCut the Broccoli’s florets into small sections, plunge into cold water then boil them. Take some red chilly, squash [...]

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Show # 40 - A Campi Point of View

No one could imagine to see the city of Siena underneath the sea of fog that you can admire from the top of Campi hill, where the Ombrone river begins his course . Discover it in this videoMap

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Show # 39 - Rina while Cleaning the Rabbits Cages

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Once a week Rina cleans her beloved rabbits cages. The perfect rabbits to eat are the ones breeded in a dark closed hut. Rina fears that video camera should damage the rabbits and is shy about the “concio” (dirt) in the cages.

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Video Recipe # 2 - Pappardelle Noodles with Duck

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Pappardelle Noodles with Duck . A classic of tuscan cuisine as described in the essential “Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well” Pellegrino Artusi cookbook and the first one of our Home Cooking in Tuscany series where some of our friends cook at home for our cameras their all time favourites [...]

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Show # 38 - Harvest of Olives in Cocoioni

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Old Cocoioni farmers use to harvest their olives the way that ancient romans did. It takes a long time to catch them all with hands, rakes and nets placed under the plants, but what they get at the end is pure extra virgin olive oil, mainly for personal use. This is why an olive oil [...]

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Show # 37 - Abbey of Sant?Antimo: Gregorian Chant Mass

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. The Abbey of Sant’ Antimo, few miles from Montalcino in Val d’Orcia, is a beautiful Romanesque church dated from the 12th century. A legend claims that Sant’Antimo is on the site of an ancient chapel built to the orders of Charlemagne in 781. Nowadays is the house of a monk’s community renowned for his Gregorian [...]

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Show # 36 - Market-Day in San Giovanni Valdarno Historical Center [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Every saturday morning in San Giovanni Valdarno take place an open air market. You can buy clothes, shoes, everything but first of all it is the fruit, vegetables and cheese market . This happens in the historical center of the town, around the medieval masterpiece of Palazzo Pretorio, better known as Palazzo D’Arnolfo, from [...]

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Show # 35 - Rustic Village in Chianti [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. This rustic village in the hills of Chianti senese is a place to preserve. No one lives here during winter and a very few does in other seasons. We will not reveal its exact location because places like this remained the same from more than one hundred year and its only chance to conserve its [...]

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Show # 34 -?Podere Campacci?wine cellar [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Campacci is an agricultural company based outside San Gusmè that produces Chianti Classico Wine, according to the traditional system using the “governo chiantigiano”, and olive oil. Mr. Remo is the owner and he shows us one of his wine cellars, the one in the village of San Gusmè where he leads his commercial activity. Remo [...]

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Show #33 - The Cathedral of Florence, outside view. [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. The cathedral of Florence (Duomo) is named “Santa Maria del Fiore”. It was consacrated in 1436 by Pope Eugenius IV. The cathedral as we see it today is the result of a work done across the centuries on the foundation of the original project by Arnolfo di Cambio dated back at the end of the [...]

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Show # 32 San Gusmé [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. San Gusmè is a little village in the Castelnuovo Berardenga municipality, where people live happily in a small world made of ancient gestures and habits. In San Gusmé there are no cars, banks, mobiles. You can drink a glass of local wine and with a pecorino cheese sandwich while the church’s bell mark the passing [...]

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Show # 31 - Domestic Pig Breeding in Val d?Ambra [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Every time that Mario visits his pig breeding besides his country house he gives them some chestnuts. He says that the female is quite strange while the male allows some caresses. Mario speaks gently with them but sometimes his wife get worried about that.Inside the pigsty you can see brother and sister.

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Show # 30 - Montebenichi [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Montebenichi is a walled medieval villagge on the top of a hill dominating Valdambra valley at 510 mts. It is well know for his castle called Castelletto di Montebenichi, in the upper square of the village, that has now becomed an exclusive charming hotel where often sleeps very important people from all over the world. [...]

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Show # 29 - The Turkeys love music [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. These are the turkeys that live in my backyard. This animals are tiny breeded and, what can I say, no doubt that they are really organically grown.And they like music too.

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Show # 28 San Vincenti [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. San Vincenti: few houses along a dirty road and an antique romanesque parish church founded on 700 A.C. History belong to this place, abandoned because of poverty by the countrymen after the second world war and still unknown to the most.Except for some carpenters working on the restoring of an ancient country house, we found [...]

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Show # 27 - Roadtrip from Monteluco TV to San Gusmè [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. The road that leads from Monteluco TV, few miles after Nusenna in Gaiole in Chianti municipality, to San Gusmè, near Castelnuovo Berardenga, rides across Chianti’s mountains in the midst of chestnut groves, vineyards and green fields.Formerly a SanRemo Rally lap, it was considered one of the most spectacular and hard to drive tracks.Now that it [...]

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Show #32 - Sheeps in Chianti Hills [iPod Video]

http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for info. Chianti hills are the ideal ecosystem for the pasture of the sheeps and the production of high quality pecorino cheese. Pay attention to sounds in the morning air.

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Feeding the Chickens

Like every morning breakfast in the hen house for my chickens. The grass they find by themselves in the field.

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Dirt Road from San Donato in Perano to Vertine in Chianti

Another dirt road that anyone should trip if coming by these places. We follow the way from San Donato in Perano Castle to Vertine in Chianti. Vineyards in autumn yellow. A high sunny day.MapChiantinet.it

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Ocio: the day before of a goose

Most tuscany country houses have a backyard with animals running free all day long: chickens, porks and gooses. This video shows the day before of a goose. Before what you can imagine by yourself. Ocio, means goose in tuscan slang. But don’t misunderstood: I love this animals.

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Vertine in Chianti

Vertine is a walled village near Gaiole in Chianti and is simply Chianti at its best. This village offers great panoramas on the hills covered by wineyards and a perfectly preserved medieval structure and buildings. Vertine is a must see if you come in Chianti.The tower and the castle are part of one of the [...]

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Capraia Fiorentina

Video of Capraia Fiorentina, visit http://tuscany.podtravels.tv for more info.

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Montozzi: the Castle and Via del Colle

The Castle of Montozzi has medioeval origins, about fifteenth century, and is at the top of a 450 mt. s.l. hill, surrounded by Val d’Ambra’s olives fields and vineyards. Since then Montozzi has always been a rural estate that produces excellent wine and oil and it manage now also agritourism hospitality in the Castle and [...]

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Dawn in Marina di Alberese

Marina di Alberese is a bay in the cost in front of the Uccellina Mountains sited in the Maremma Regional Park.

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