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Florence is a popular destination for foreigners, blending Renaissance history with modern innovation. Renowned for its art, culture, and urban appeal, Tuscany's capital city also offers many job opportunities, especially in tourism, art, and fashion. The city's world-class universities also attract a diverse international community.  Living in Flo...

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With the help of carbon farming, the wine we’ll be drinking in the future won’t just be high-quality—it might also play a role in fighting climate change by capturing carbon from the atmosphere. One project is already putting this vision into action. It’s called Life VitiCaSe, and it involves four experimental vineyards managed by three wine produ...

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Tuscany’s countryside has long been framed through a romantic lens, often shaped by films and novels like Under the Tuscan Sun. But, while the image of endless vineyards, rustic farmhouses, and golden hills has been the dream of Italophiles worldwide, it risks reducing a complex and historically rich landscape to a simple postcard: beneath the surf...

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Before Covid, the gap between North American wineries and Italian ones in terms of hospitality was vast. The former have been offering all kinds of packages for over 20 years—from tasting trails to full-blown shows among the barrels: screenings, wellness treatments, suites nestled among the vines. The latter started later but are now rapidly rethin...

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Italy is an open-air museum, where art is everywhere, in many different forms. Some of the places where this art is found are not accessible, and that’s a shame. Today, after a long and painful period of closure marked by bureaucracy and mismanagement, there is a wonderful news about the path leading to the reopening of an extraordinary, unique, an...

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The diffuse museum project "Paesaggi Plurali," promoted by the City of Fiesole, is born: forty places in Fiesole, selected for their historical, artistic, landscape and cultural significance, have been networked into four thematic routes already available to the public. The project aims to propose a narrative of the city as one big system. The offi...

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Chef Andrea Madonia works quietly under a stainless steel kitchen hood inside Brassica Osteria Contemporanea, a 15-seat restaurant in the small town of San Miniato, Italy, located about 30 miles east of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The pint-sized restaurant he owns with his best friend — who is doubling as our server — has been rearranged to fit our...

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Siena was perhaps the Italian city best loved by Vittorio Alfieri, who in his Autobiography, published in 1806, did not fail to praise itselegance, a quality peculiar to this city. “So great is the force of the beautiful and the true,” Alfieri wrote about Siena, “that I felt almost a lively ray suddenly brightening my mind, and a most sweet flatter...

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For the first time in its history, the historic Garden of Villa La Quiete opens its doors to the public. A secret place, a precious 18th-century treasure chest hidden in the greenery of the Castello district in Florence, the garden represents one of the most authentic testimonies of the Medici landscape, which has remained intact over the centuries...

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The past few months, Convivio, has been honored to present a series of lectures on the history of Italy through the work of Dr. Joanne Ferraro, a notable historian, and Professor Emerita of History at San Diego State University.  We are excited to announce the next installment of our Colloqui Discussion Series. On June 5, 2025, Convivio Society inv...

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