The Chianti Region in Tuscany is one of the most outstanding in Italy
second to none with a beautiful countryside, some of the best wines in the
world, and a historical background dating back hundreds of years. Chianti
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where you will be able to "unwind", forget your routine and relieve
the stress. Our Hotels are strategically positioned in the Chianti countryside:
you'll easily be able to reach Siena and Florence for daily excursions,
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by our staff. If you are interested in a unique holiday experience, you'll
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worldwide. We look forward to hearing from you and above all wish to see
you soon at one of our hotels and residences. In 1859 the Lorreines left
Florence for good. After the second War of Independence and after Tuscany
joined the Savoy Reign of Unified Italy, Florence is the Capital of Italy
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. The historical city centre underwent intensive urban renovation (which
the Middle classes deemed necessary for prestige, but also for speculation,
disguised beneath a humanistic and historical formula) which completely
destroyed the Old Market buy
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day Piazza della Repubblica rebuilt on this site, (twice the original size)
and marks the destruction of the organic connection of a thousand years
of urbanistic stratification, substituted with an anonymous geometrical
layout of buildings, amongst which some monuments have been left intact,
emerging with no connection to the buildings around them.During the buy
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after the French Impressionist period which similarly opposed naturalism).
Fattori, Lega, Signorini, Sernesi, D'Ancona, Borrani, supported by the theorists
Cecioni and Martelli, who used to frequent the Michelangelo coffee house
in Via Larga, gave birth to a new conception of painting based on the "macchia"
technique (literally "stain"): in other words the coloured blobs
of light and darkness that the eye percieves. This was also an answer to
the new scientific theories on light and colour that were emerging.Giuseppe
Poggi's urbanistic planning was aimed at giving the town an international
aspect. Old walls were demolished to make way for new residential areas
and a great deal of classical and pre-renaissance-styled villas and stylish
palaces, not altogether without a certain monumental dignity, (for example
the buildings along the Arno). The town houses built in long orderly rows
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; imitate in miniature, just like the 18th Century houses did, the style
of the suburban villas.
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international lines of 'metal architecture', such as the San Lorenzo market
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along the Viale dei Colli. There are various theories as to the origin of
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to an Etruscan family of the area, or perhaps a winegrower from the hills
above Florence.What is more certain is that the name was well established
by the early fifteenth century, although the wine known as Chianti in those
days was almost certainly a white wine. As late as the 1960's there was
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red wine. By the early 1900's the wines of Chianti had become very popular
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