Tag: Giuliano de’ Medici

Love Stories at the Uffizi

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Ever wondered what the stories are behind a famous painting? Well, there are plenty of stories behind the Monna Lisa portrait, but what about others, less famous or less talked about. This beauty for example This painting (The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably made in mid 1480), […]

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Firenze is a Flower

.Reading time 9 minutes.

FLORENTIA The Latin name of Florence was Florentia (“flowering”), its coat of arms is a flower as well. The symbol is not the French Fleur de Lys—though it looks like it, but the “Giaggiolo” (Sweet Iris), the violet is in fact also the color of the Florentine soccer team. To visit Florence properly it takes a […]

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