Cypress-lined roads, hill towns turning gold at sunset and Brunelleschi’s dome on the horizon. In Tuscany the galleries and the wine cellars are never far apart: come for one city and you’ll end up planning three.
Choose Florence for a first encounter with Renaissance art. Choose Bologna if food shops and covered streets are the point of the break. Both give you a centre to explore on foot, but they reward different uses of a short stay. Your UK departure airport, the transfer into town and the trips you want to […]
Florence or Rome for a short break is a choice between two different shapes of city, not a ranking of good and bad. Rome rewards time: it spreads ancient sites, Vatican collections and neighbourhood life across a large city that three or four days fit better than two. Florence compresses Renaissance art and Tuscan food […]
