You’ll need to brush up on your Italian to use this site as it is available only in Italian for now. Tuscany, as we all know, has much to offer tourists and adventure goers. This site has put together a wealth of information on the most interesting things to do in Tuscany. The section dedicated to culture includes: monuments, museums, churches, abbeys, monasteries, forts, castles, medieval festivals and fairs. For accommodation, there is a list of farmhouses, apartments, and bed and breakfast homes that includes contact info and prices. You can even do a search based on the area you are looking for, such as: Argentario, Chianti, Costa degli Estruschi, Maremma, Mugello, and San Gimignano. The most interesting section is dedicated to Tuscan food and wine which includes Tuscan recipes and information on local products like meat, wine, olive oil and cheese.

“In Your Life” is the name of this website, in both Italian and English, that promotes accommodation all over Italy. Under Tuscany you can look for farmhouses, bed and breakfast guesthomes, country houses, villas, castles, apartments and health spa centres. There is also a lot of information about art and culture with descriptions of cities, museums, exhibits, concerts and festivals. Under gastronomy, there is a list of restaurants along with local dishes and their recipes. For those of you who love nature, sports and health, there is a detailed list of where you can go horse-riding, hiking, and mountain biking as well as a list of health spas, parks, nature reserves and archaeological sites.

If you are planning a visit to Florence, the city hall has a number of helpful pages including the ones dedicated to public museums (with the addition of two private ones). You can find descriptions of the museums, the collections on display in the museum and the structures themselves such as Palazzo Vecchio and Santa Maria Novella. Other information on each museum is also included: hours, prices, maps.

Firenze Musei (translated into Florence Museums) is in charge of managing various services within Florence’s network of public museums: museum shops, ticket offices, booking services. Florence’s network includes thirteen museums that own and display about three hundred thousand works of art dating from prehistory to the 20th century. The events sections contains an updated list of all running exhibits at the museums. The site also offers a interesting section dedicated to itineraries within the museums and galleries. After registering, you can even shop online. Finally, you can find good descriptions of the museums with more info on their collections and contacts.

Andrea Tirinnanzi started up the art gallery Firenze Art in November of 1999 to promote contemporary artists and their work. There is a long list of permanent artists and for each one it is possible to view a biography, some of their works of art and some reviews. If you are interested in purchasing artwork all you need to do is fill out an online form and somebody will contact you to complete the purchase. Other sections contain information on exhibits, contacts and how to
exhibit your work.