Secret Florence: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Secret Guides) - Softcover

Niccolò Rinaldi; Paola Maresca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 236195897X ISBN 13: 9782361958978

Verlag: Jonglez Verlag, 2025

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Let Secret Florence guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Florence guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and secret places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Florence guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

Inside Secret Florence guide:

• Visit a church in a prison
• Learn how Florence became the centre of hermetism during the Renaissance and where you can still find traces of it today
• Escape from the crowds of tourists to visit little-known artistic masterpieces
• Head off to hunt for the 34 plaques displaying quotes from the “Divine Comedy”
• Fill up your tank at a vintage service station
• Have your children count the number of bees sculpted on the monument to the glory of Ferdinand I
• Look for the last wine distributors of the Renaissance
• Notice the minuscule windows designed to let children look out quietly onto the street
• Visit superb private gardens that even the Florentines don’t know about
• Learn how the purple colour of the Fiorentina football team is connected to the pee of a Florentine crusader in Palestine …
  

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Florence offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Florence well or would like to discover the other face of the city.

The definitive insider’s guide to Florence.

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Niccolò Rinaldi, born in Florence in 1962, was the UN representative for information in Afghanistan, adjunct secretary general, european parliament deputy, and elected in the Central Italian Collegiate (which includes Florence.) He has written travel books and corresponding works on central Asia, Africa, and florentine travelers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jonglez Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 236195897X
• ISBN 13: 9782361958978
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 6
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Jonglez Verlag; info@jonglezverlag.com; ; 25, rue du Maréchal Foch; Versailles; 78000; Frankreich