AN INSIDER'S POINT OF VIEW
The Guidebook "A Great Reason for Every Season. Florence – Events & Specialities Guide (and the Italian version "Stagione che vai, Firenze che trovi – Almanacco di Eventi & Specialità Fiorentine") is focused on the reasons why it’s worth to explore the city in different seasons of the year through the voice of the Florentine producers and events organized in the city all year around. A guide to the events organised in a city like Florence, is basically a guide to the products which the land offers in each season. This book explains how this process keeps us all active for 365 days a year and how the unceasing efforts of craftsmen and other producers are focused on achieving excellence in all fields. The writer’s aim is to give the reader a series of pointers so that everyone can experience his or her own personal Florence city. Florence is not a dream, but a real place with real people who have worked their way out of history and into the 21st century. Dreams are personal and I never thought I could give you a present of a dream, but I can give you the information you need to make Florence a real place which you can explore, see and feel for yourselves.
The Guide is written in English and in Italian, in a pocket book format (11X16 cm), with a useful and retro graphic design with boxes and frames, which helps the client in a concrete way to access the information about art & handicraft, food & wine, nature, sport & well-being, events and historical parades, top tips to live like a real Florentine.
Even the people who have contributed to the project are all Florentine producers or citizens because it is these people who are truly able to give genuine advice or suggestions being as they are true Florentines and passionate connoisseurs of the reality in which they live.
It is important to convey to you that this guide is not a list of tourist facilities/accommodation, but rather genuine suggestions that we believe to be of quality and unique. Each topic included is the fruit of our work and most careful research and not at the request of restaurants/ hotels, businesses, in this we believe that it offers the best service to the tourist by not serving as paid advertising to the structures mentioned.
The Guidebook 'A Great Reason for Every Season. Tuscany - The Events & Specialities Guide (and the Italian version "Stagione che vai, Toscana che trovi – Almanacco di Eventi & Specialità”) is an extensive guide and almanac containing precise locations and dates pertaining to the vast world of hand made products and traditional events throughout the region of Tuscany. Don't keep to the major tourist trails, important as they are, but get on to the minor roads is the theme throughout the book. You'll be amazed at what you find and you'll have a lot of fun will finding it .
Divided season by season, the guide is focused on the important aspects that make Tuscany unique: art & handicraft, food & wine, nature, sport & well being, festivals and traditional parades, everyday aspects of life that Tuscans live year round. This guide gives a helping hand with meeting the people, seeing the things they create, sample the food, wine and products they dedicate their lives to. You'll experience the beauty of the Tuscan countryside – its colours and scents, the birds in the morning and the owls in the evening, the sun's reflections on the sea, the drama of thunderstorms, the warm summer breeze and the icicles glinting on the boughs….
This is the bottom line: Tuscany is not a mere dream, but a real place with real people who have worked their way out of history and into the 21st century all while retaining the values of their ancestors. It is important to convey to you that this guide is not a list of tourist facilities/accommodation, but rather genuine suggestions that we believe to be unique and of the utmost quality. Each topic included is the fruit of our work and most careful research and not at the request of restaurants/ hotels, businesses, in this we believe that it offers the best service to the tourist by not serving as paid advertising to the structures mentioned. Those who have contributed to the project are all Tuscan producers or citizens because it is these people who are truly able to give genuine advice or suggestions being as they are passionate connoisseurs of the reality in which they live.
The Guide is written in English and in a handy pocket format (11X16 cm), with a useful and retro graphic design with boxes and frames.
Communicart is a marketing agency based in Florence dealing with the promotion of the Tuscan region, especially in the areas of hospitality, craftsmanship, food & wine, events. Our pay-off is "an insider's point of view" because we have set out to promote unique estate and create offbeat maps and guides together with these authentically Tuscan owners, producers and operators, who have shared their priceless advice and trade secrets.