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Where to Eat
Optimum level restaurant with a well lit dining room with another small room off the kitchen with a crackling fireplace. In summer one can enjoy a meal outside in the fresh air on the large terrace. When you enter find a display of breads and delicatessen meats similar to an old time restaurant.
The menu offers a selection of dishes with of fresh water fish like rice with shrimp, river fish like marinated eel or meat dishes like the succulent Florentine beef stew made with red wine. Other enticing main dishes include sautéed pigeon, baked spinach flan with liver and Marsala wine, and sautéed rabbit with sun dried tomatoes.
Interesting hors d'oeuvre like beans with tripe or a pecorino cheese baked flan with wood scents are also on the menu. Numerous pasta dishes like "gnudi" or gnocchetti (little potato dumplings) prepared with ricotta and spinach and topped with butter and pecorino cheese or spaghetti with mullets are just two of the unique selections that the menu offers. Finish off your meal with one of the home made desserts like zuppa inglese or a chocolate delight.
A selection of vintage wines is also available to accompany any dish.
The cost of a complete meal is roughly € 40,00.

Address: Via di Rimaggio, 22 - Florence Italy
Tel. 055.630076 / Fax 055.633335
Closed for lunch on Wednesdays and Thursdays and for three weeks in August.
All major credit cards are accepted


ACQUERELLO RESTAURANT
Located on Via Ghibellina, main street where from the Bargello Museum is found, this restaurant offers a Sardinian cuisine.
The new manager, Luisella, has elaborated an alternative cuisine to that of the classic territorial dishes. Fish and meat specialties are prevalent in this restaurant. For starters try the marinated anchovies and continue with a plate of "malloreddus", typical pasta dish in the shape of tiny dumplings or "taglierini" (long thin noodles) with seafood and shellfish.
For those who prefer fish, try the "Villa di Quartu" shrimp dish while for meat or poultry lovers the pork prepared with Sardinian cream or chicken breast with Oristano white wine. For dessert, Sardinian torroncini (nougat) or seada (fried pastry) with honey might entice your taste buds. One can also order, with advance reservations only, a dish of exquisite fish soup or grilled lobster "Santa Tennera". To accompany your choice of dinners, island wines like Vermentino of Gallura or Cannonau are available. The cost of a three course meal is roughly € 30,00.

Address: Via Ghibellina, 156/r - Florence Italy
Tel: 055.2340554
Closed on Thursdays
All major credit cards are accepted

BUCA DI MARIO RESTAURANT
Buca di Mario Restaurant opened its doors in 1886. It was in that year that the owner, Mario Corsini, only served "pappa ribollita" (Tuscan bread soup ) with a glass of wine; today the restaurant is one of the most distinctive in Florence with an environment whose characteristics have remained unaltered through time and whose menu proposes flavors of an authentic Tuscan cuisine with dishes like the classic "Ribollita" (Tuscan bread and veggie soup ), "Pappa al Pomodoro (chunky tomato stew), Passato di Fagioli with faro (crushed bean and wheat soup) and Florentine "Ossobuco" (marrowbone steak) with beans.
To accompany your dinner choose a quality vintage wine like Brunello or Chianti classico.

Address: Piazza degli Ottaviani, 16r - Florence Italy
Tel: 055.214179 / Fax: 055.2647336
All major credit cards are accepted

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Florence Events
Madonna in concert
Madonna in concert
From 16/06/2012
To 16/06/2012
Madonna in concert in Italy! Only two dates, and one of them is Florence!
Hour: 08:00 pm
Where: Stadio Artemio Franchi
Viale Manfredo Fanti, 4, 50137 FLORENCE
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
From 10/06/2012
To 10/06/2012
The Boss will be on stage in Florence for his 2012 Italian tour.
Where: Stadio Artemio Franchi
Viale Manfredo Fanti, 4,
50137 FLORENCE
Hour: 20:00
At Palazzo Strozzi exhibition "Americans in Florence"
At Palazzo Strozzi exhibition "Americans in Florence"
From 03/03/2012
To 15/07/2012
An exhibition in Florence to tell the New World with 32 paintings by American artists who lived in Florence and Tuscany from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War.
In Florence, the exhibition "A little craftsmen, some pioneers'
In Florence, the exhibition "A little craftsmen, some pioneers'
From 15/03/2012
To 09/09/2012
Until 9 September at the Exhibition Area in the offices of the Savings Bank of Florence held a show the result of a long process of reordering of the photographer Pier Luigi Esclapon de Villeneuve.
Exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in Florence on dinosaurs
Exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in Florence on dinosaurs
From 01/03/2012
To 01/09/2012
Large predators live in the Botanical Garden, popping up among the branches of old trees, and the Museum of Paleontology.
We can see the show animals that are the fruit of the most modern and accurate anatomical and ecological research, combined[...]
Crystal: mineral exhibition to the Specola
Crystal: mineral exhibition to the Specola
From 28/03/2012
To 30/06/2012
The exhibition 'crystals. The finest display of minerals in the world 'will remain open until June 30, 2012 to Florence.
The collection consists of over 500 specimens, was collected by physicist Alberto Giazotto.
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
From 23/03/2012
To 18/08/2013
From 23 March 2012 to 18 August 2013 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence exhibitoni of the spring of the Renaissance by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand.
Trip to Puglia
Trip to Puglia
From 14/04/2012
To 18/10/2012
From April 14 to October 18, 2012 at ilPlus Florence in Florence, the exhibition will be held in Puglia Travel Addamiano Christmas.
The exhibition is part of the International Artistic conceived and directed by Carlo Franza.
Art and Tourism to Florence
Art and Tourism to Florence
From 18/05/2012
To 21/05/2012
From 18 to 20 May 2012 in Florence's Art & Tourism, the first international fair dedicated to cultural tourism.

At the fair, organized spaces of the Fortezza da Basso, will take part in museums, cities, art galleries and tour operators[...]
Ice cream festival in Florence
Ice cream festival in Florence
From 23/05/2012
To 28/05/2012
From 23 to 27 May 2012 in Florence will host the ice cream, for the third annual Ice Cream Festival.
The event will have three different locations: The Village of Emerging Masters Gelato and Gelato in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, the Village[...]
Florentine Musical May
Florentine Musical May
From 04/05/2012
To 11/06/2012
The 75th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens on the theme of travel: From Central Europe to South America. It 'a festival that recalls, with its theme, in Amerigo Vespucci five hundredth, and the tour that will take place just in Latin[...]
Madonna in concert
Madonna in concert
From 16/06/2012
To 16/06/2012
Madonna in concert in Italy! Only two dates, and one of them is Florence!
Hour: 08:00 pm
Where: Stadio Artemio Franchi
Viale Manfredo Fanti, 4, 50137 FLORENCE
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
From 10/06/2012
To 10/06/2012
The Boss will be on stage in Florence for his 2012 Italian tour.
Where: Stadio Artemio Franchi
Viale Manfredo Fanti, 4,
50137 FLORENCE
Hour: 20:00
At Palazzo Strozzi exhibition "Americans in Florence"
At Palazzo Strozzi exhibition "Americans in Florence"
From 03/03/2012
To 15/07/2012
An exhibition in Florence to tell the New World with 32 paintings by American artists who lived in Florence and Tuscany from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War.
In Florence, the exhibition "A little craftsmen, some pioneers'
In Florence, the exhibition "A little craftsmen, some pioneers'
From 15/03/2012
To 09/09/2012
Until 9 September at the Exhibition Area in the offices of the Savings Bank of Florence held a show the result of a long process of reordering of the photographer Pier Luigi Esclapon de Villeneuve.
Exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in Florence on dinosaurs
Exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in Florence on dinosaurs
From 01/03/2012
To 01/09/2012
Large predators live in the Botanical Garden, popping up among the branches of old trees, and the Museum of Paleontology.
We can see the show animals that are the fruit of the most modern and accurate anatomical and ecological research, combined[...]
Crystal: mineral exhibition to the Specola
Crystal: mineral exhibition to the Specola
From 28/03/2012
To 30/06/2012
The exhibition 'crystals. The finest display of minerals in the world 'will remain open until June 30, 2012 to Florence.
The collection consists of over 500 specimens, was collected by physicist Alberto Giazotto.
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
From 23/03/2012
To 18/08/2013
From 23 March 2012 to 18 August 2013 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence exhibitoni of the spring of the Renaissance by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand.
Trip to Puglia
Trip to Puglia
From 14/04/2012
To 18/10/2012
From April 14 to October 18, 2012 at ilPlus Florence in Florence, the exhibition will be held in Puglia Travel Addamiano Christmas.
The exhibition is part of the International Artistic conceived and directed by Carlo Franza.
Art and Tourism to Florence
Art and Tourism to Florence
From 18/05/2012
To 21/05/2012
From 18 to 20 May 2012 in Florence's Art & Tourism, the first international fair dedicated to cultural tourism.

At the fair, organized spaces of the Fortezza da Basso, will take part in museums, cities, art galleries and tour operators[...]
Ice cream festival in Florence
Ice cream festival in Florence
From 23/05/2012
To 28/05/2012
From 23 to 27 May 2012 in Florence will host the ice cream, for the third annual Ice Cream Festival.
The event will have three different locations: The Village of Emerging Masters Gelato and Gelato in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, the Village[...]
Florentine Musical May
Florentine Musical May
From 04/05/2012
To 11/06/2012
The 75th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens on the theme of travel: From Central Europe to South America. It 'a festival that recalls, with its theme, in Amerigo Vespucci five hundredth, and the tour that will take place just in Latin[...]