Tag: festival

Pistoia: tomorrow starts 37th edition of PistoiaBlues Festival  & it’s live music in town!

4 July 2016

Still remember one of the first Pistoiablues in 1983 : I was still a teenager & never seen before  a concert in the Duomo square  of my city ! The most impressive thing to me was the very different kind of people  coming from everywhere in Italy & from abroad  with long hair & long … More Pistoia: tomorrow starts 37th edition of PistoiaBlues Festival  & it’s live music in town!

Certaldo : a Medieval beautiful hamlet in Tuscany!

4 May 2016

Have you ever heard about Certaldo before? Maybe because the renowned writer & poet Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron’s author –  was born here …..https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio and its home museum so interesting to visit http://www.casaboccaccio.it/ with books & even old shoes dated 1300 and aspectacular view from the tower over the hamlet that till today maintained its old … More Certaldo : a Medieval beautiful hamlet in Tuscany!

Pistoia : Santa Barbara’s Fortress ,a Tuscan  highline over the city!

11 April 2016

          Yesterday I visited this enchanting location just on the border of a public park where I used to go when I was a child , Piazza d’Armi. With the Pistoia’s Instagrammer group & the FAI  young volounteers  ( Fondo Ambiente Italiano –  )we visited this fourtess dated fourtheen century that hosted  in different … More Pistoia : Santa Barbara’s Fortress ,a Tuscan  highline over the city!

MadeinPistoia : Chocomoments, a  sweetness celebration 

6 January 2016

        In Pistoia since two days & until this evening you can visit this chocolate kermesse ! So many different kind of handcrafted chocolate producers  – made in Italy – in  different shapes, tastes & colours & consistence ( as the liquid tiepid chocolate to be sipped  with a spoon as it is not … More MadeinPistoia : Chocomoments, a  sweetness celebration 

Montecarlo di Lucca : a wine hamlet in Tuscany – wine festival until September 8th!

1 September 2015

Yesterday evening I visited the 48th edition of this wine event called “Festa del vino”: Montecarlo is such an amazing small village between Pistoia & Lucca known especially for its white wine but also for the red one . Unfortunately not many tourists know this rich terroire of wineyards …hope with this post it can … More Montecarlo di Lucca : a wine hamlet in Tuscany – wine festival until September 8th!

#dadoveblogghi : eccomi qui , io sono di PISTOIA, una  AUTENTICA città toscana!

21 April 2015

È vero, cara Lucia , che ci dimentichiamo spesso di dire da dove …’blogghiamo’! in effetti io scrivo spesso su Pistoia, la mia piccola città che io amo chiamare ‘una gemma nascosta’  sì, perchè è nel mezzo a due città ( Firenze e Pisa )  più conosciute   di lei che da secoli ormai la … More #dadoveblogghi : eccomi qui , io sono di PISTOIA, una  AUTENTICA città toscana!