An hour’s journey back in time to be welcomed by the river sheltered from the crowds of the city, while Florence flows along the sides of the boat, overwhelming.The clatter of the perch meets the water, and the noise of the center slipping away.A unique point of view to be amazed by the city you love and capture views that you had never seen. What can you see from the boat? Our tour starts at the Ponte alle Grazie and covers the whole navigable part of the Arno between the Pescaia di San Niccolò and that of Santa Rosa, the two waterfalls that regulate the flow of the river since the Middle Ages. We glide quietly next to the Uffizi and the Vasari Corridor to admire from under the Ponte Vecchio and the part of the city more dense of history, stately buildings and austere towers. We pass the Church of the Saints Apostles and Palazzo Corsini, we salute the rams that watch the river from the Santa Trinita Bridge and we go along the neighborhood of San Frediano, where the church of San Jacopo Soprarno shows us the apse on the water’s surface. We then approach the Ponte alla Carraia and return to our boarding, at the height of the Palazzo della Borsa.

In the realm of Italian pasta, the story of an ancient company that has been an expression of excellence and food craftsmanship since 1840. Visit of the company in the working cycles as well as a light lunch.

At Formello, near Rome, there is a 7,000-square-metre building containing over 15,000 period garments and over 300,000 costumes arranged according to type and period. The former were passionately collected by Umberto Tirelli and diligently added to by Dino Trappetti; the latter were made by the Sartoria that Tirelli himself founded. Together with the collection of sketches, designs and preparatory drawings in the company’s possession, these five decades of art at the service of the theatre, cinema and opera are virtually unrivalled. Faithful to the principles that inspired its founder, the company has expanded and has never ceased to fire the imagination of outstanding costume designers like Lila de Nobili, Piero Tosi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Gabriella Pescucci, Milena Canonero, Maurizio Millenotti, Ann Roth, and their followers today like Carlo Poggioli, Alessandro Lai e Massimo Cantini Parrini…