Ristorante Al Giglio
30124 Venezia – S. Marco 2477/78
Phone: 041 5232368
Fax: 041 5225700
Places to Shop
Marina e Susanna Sent (Jewelry)
Near the Peggy Guggenhiem museum. This shop carries many one
of a kind art and jewelry pieces and jewelry pieces that are ART!
A must see for jewelry lovers who like special pieces.
Fondamenta Serenella, 20
phone: 0415274665 email: sent.snc@tin.it
Gualti - Wearable Art, Amazing Jewelry
Dramatic Sculpture jewelry / art to wear. Gorgeous, light weight,
one of a kind pieces that are masterfully crafted and imagined.
Dorsoduro, Rio Tera Cana, 3111
Venezia, Vaporetto: Linea 1 CA Rezzonico
Phone/Fax: 0415201731
www.Gualti.it email:
info@gualti.it
Gianni Cavalier (Hand crafted Picture Frames)
Maker of fine frames in the heart of San Marco. Extraordinarily
hand crafted. Over 20 years in operation producing amazing frames
the old fashioned way. Pricey, but well worth it if you treasure
quality.
S. Marco, 2863/a
phone/fax: 041 5238621
Calle dell'Avogaria
1629 Dorsoduro 041 296 0491
www.avogaria.com
Email: info@avogaria.com
Vino Vino: Calle delle Veste
16
Reasonably priced.
Antipasto bar - restaurant upstairs. Great wine list.
2007A San Marco Phone: 041 241 7688
www.anticomartini.com/vinovino.htm
Libreria Della Spada
Via della Spada
Phone N.19-21/r 50123 Firenze
Email: spada@libreriadellaspada.com.
www.libreriadellaspada.com
Falenafoto (Fotografo in Venezia)
http://www.falenafoto.it/
S. Marco 3710 Venezia
tel. 0415226376
Florence Top
Florence (Firenze), Italy
The
Medici family moved into Florence during the Middle Ages attracting
goldsmiths and artists to sell to the powerful family. These
craftsmen exist even through this day.
Visit
Florence's world-famous art museums, shop in the amazing fabric and
jewelry stores
and
enjoy Tuscan cuisine in traditional trattoria's..
Spend sometime on Ponte Vecchio
or "Old
Bridge"
shopping for jewelry and other great Italian finds.
With a car you can travel into Umbria
and visit slightly less crowded cities excepting Assisi.
To See
Bargello
sculpture museum
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Houses Michelangelo's second
Pieta, Donatello's Mary Magdalene, and other
significant sculptures by Donatello and della Robbia.
Live like a Local.
Take a pre-dawn to post Jog around town and
watch the businesses open.
Attend the afternoon
vespers in the crypt of San Miniato where Benedictine monks sing Gregorian
chants.
Every afternoon at
4:30.
Check hours
first. Many of the museums and restaurants are only open during very short
hours, or one certain days.
For the museum lovers,
get to the Uffizi and the
Palazzo Vecchio area, and the Duomo.
Florence needs time on its own.
It is a good centre to visit Pisa and Lucca by train (check
train times on
www.trenitalia.it
). Pistoia (23 miles north west of Florence) and Prato (11
miles north west of Florence) are two towns much neglected
by tourists.
San Gimignano and Siena
can be more easily reached by bus (Tra-in or Sita)
and many hotels will arrange conducted coach visits
with a guide.
Places to Eat
Enoteca Baldovino
Great food in a casual atmosphere. Indoors or outdoors seating.
Great house wine by the carafe! Romantic dining outdoors yet
casual enough for hanging out with your friends.
Via San Giuseppe 18R (Piazza S. Croce)
phone: 055 2347220
www.baldovino.com email:
info@baldovino.com
Maso
Mediterranean restaurant with nice atmosphere and good food.
Via Maso Finiguerra, 10
Phone: 055 212106
Beccofino restaurant
Piazza degli Scarlatti 1R (Lungarno Guicciardini) Florence
Phone: 055 290 076
Via Borgo Pinti 12/r - Florence - ITALY -
Tel.-39-055/24.13.41
La Giostra is intentionally difficult to find.
Outside the front door there is no sign. The street on which it
is found is far away from the typical touristy routes. Yet it is
only a few hundred meters from the Duomo, in the very center of
Florence, in Borgo Pinti at number 12, near to the San
Piero arch. In short, it is not a place for tourists, it is more
a place for travelers. On foot: five minutes from the Duomo
going along Oriuolo street. Ten minutes from Repubblica square
by taking Corso street, Borgo Albizi street and crossing the San
Piero arch. By car: follow the ring-road avenues (from north to
south) toward Donatello square (English monumental cemetery),
follow the indication for D'azeglio square and then take Borgo
Pinti street. An alternative is to leave the car at the
Parterre parking-lot (Liberty square) and then take a taxi. By
taxi: ten minutes from most of all central hotels, cost: not
anymore 10 euros.
Trattoria Garga' Firenze
This is one of the best restaurants. RESERVATIONS a
must. Not far from the Arno River. Modern Art on the walls, small, intimate, noisy,
and a local haunt. Not inexpensive...but worth it.
La Cucina del Garga/Trattoria Garga
Via delle Belle Donne, 3,
50123 Firenze, Italia
phone / fax: 055 211 396
www.garga.it/trattoria-1.html
email: garga@fol.it
Il Latini
Hours: Tues-Sun 12:30-2:30pm and 7:30-10:30pm
Via del Palchetti 6r
off Via della Vigna Nuova
Reservations strongly recommended
Phone: 055-210-916
www.garga.it/trattoria-1.html
Places to Shop
Lebreria Della Spada
Amazing book store with a lovely selection of books on fashion.
Via della Spada n. 19-21/r 50123 Firenze
phone: +39 055 219777
www.libreriadellaspada.com
email:
spada@libreriadellaspada.com
General Florentine shopping hours
are daily from 9:30am to noon or 1pm and 3 or 3:30pm to
7:30pm -
mid-afternoon riposo
La Rinascente is open from 9am to
9pm.
Markets --
Haggling is accepted and expected at most outdoor
markets.
Premiere Florentine market is the San Lorenzo street
market, filling Piazza San Lorenzo, Via del Canto
de' Nelli, Via dell'Ariento, and other side streets.
Antiques along the Via Maggio and other Oltrarno
streets. Also the less glitzy, Via de' Tornabuoni (Via
Cerretani down Via Roma).
March through
October, most stalls are open daily about 8am to 8pm
depending.
Mercato
Centrale indoor food market (between Via
dell'Ariento and Piazza del Mercato Centrale).
Downstairs you'll find meat, cheese, and dry goods. Oone
stall devoted to tripe aficionados, a second piled high
with baccalà (dried salt cod), and a good cheap
eatery called Nerbone. Upstairs is devoted to
fruits and veggies - eggplants, yellow peppers, mounds
of artichokes, and pepperoncini bunched into brilliant
red bursts. The market is open M-S from 7am to 2pm and
Saturday also 4 to 7:30pm.
The cream of the
crop of Florentine shopping lines both sides of the
elegant Via de' Tornabuoni, with an extension
along Via della Vigna Nuova and other surrounding
streets. Here you'll find big names like Gucci, Armani,
Ferragamo, and Mila Schön ensconced in old palaces or
modern minimalist boutiques.
Interesting costume
jewelry. Angela Caputi,
www.angelacaputi.com) Via S. Spirito, 58/R Tel. +39
055 212 972 or Borgo SS. Apostoli, 44/46 Tel. +39 055
292
Cinzia,
Borgo San Jacopo 22r (tel. 055-298-078), is a grab bag of
hand-knit, usually bulky wool sweaters offered by an elderly
couple who've been sending their creations around the world for
more than 30 years.
Luisa Via Roma, Via Roma 19-21r (tel.
Tel. +39.055.90.64.116
Via Roma, 19/21r
Monday – Saturday 10:00am–7:30pm
(CET)
50123 Florence, Italy
Sunday 11:00am–7:00pm (CET)
www.luisaviaroma.com
Famed gathering
place for all the top names in avant-garde fashion, including
Jean Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana, and Issey Miyake.
Rome Top
Rome, Italy
Places to Stay
Hotel Abruzzi
The hotel is good, but the location is incredible. All rooms
overlook the beautiful piazza surrounding the Pantheon. Major sites of ancient
Rome are within walking distance. Near fabulous
restaurants.
www.hotelabruzzi.it/eng/index.php
Places to Eat
Dal Bolognese
Reservations required
Location: Near the Spanish Steps & Piazza del Popolo off
Metro: Flaminio
Piazza del Popolo 1-2
phone: 06-3611426
To See
The Shopping
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Milan
Milan is a great place for shopping of all sorts
from the extraordinarily expensive fashions in the
Via Monetnapolenone area to the more affordable
prices in Ticini and Navigli. Visit Peck's for
excellent food purchases.
Milan is about 2 hours
and 40 minutes from Venice. There are several
express trains daily. See schedules at
www.trenitalia.it
Jewelry: A moderately priced boutique
is Milan-based Mario Buccellati, Via de' Tornabuoni 71r
(tel. 055-239-6579), which since 1919 has been making
thick, heavy jewelry of high quality.
