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14 Off-the-Beaten-Track Florence Must Dos
My daughter Lily texted today with the news: Just finished my last exam of the semester!
That can mean only one thing: Summer will soon be upon us!
For those of you heading to Florence, Italy this year, I hope you'll find the following tips and recommendations useful. You can download a pdf of the same information to take with you to Florence by clicking here.
Read MoreDiscover Michelangelo's Best Kept Secret, Revealed after 446 Years
Today I have something extra special to share. I'm going to take you inside a very secret hiding place. It was Michelangelo’s. And it dates to 1530. It is also the setting of our coming story app tour: In the Footsteps of Giants.
This hiding place was only discovered 40 years ago, after a veil of secrecy that lasted hundreds of years was finally, accidentally lifted.
It was found because the walls of the room are covered with original sketches... by the hand of the Maestro Michelangelo himself.
But why, you might ask, was Michelangelo in hiding?
Read MoreOn History, Creativity, Serendipity, and Gelato
Once upon a time, my memories of Florence fell to hunting for treasures in and around the top 10 tourist attractions with a four-year-old. And, of course, gelato. My favorite flavors were the citrus sorbets, like lemon, lime, and blood orange.
Then, exactly two years ago in April 2014, both my gelato preferences and my association with Florence changed. Radically. That's when Mary Hoffman and I, as co-faculty of Julie Hedlund’s Writer’s Renaissance, first brainstormed, over una coppetta di gelato tre gusti – this time cioccolato, pistachio, and nocciola, how we might bring my time traveler tour concept to life in Florence...
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