Florence

With this year's Tour de France starting in Florence, it's the perfect opportunity to celebrate the city's cycling hero: two-time Tour de France winner, Gino Bartali.

Italy's fight against overtourism now includes stopping tourists from lingering on bridges.

Writers and poets shaped its style and vocabulary over centuries, with beauty and sound as some of their primary considerations.

Florence is a boot camp in the power of seeing properly, by narrowing our field of view in order to expand it.

While a Florence restaurant was forced to close due to Covid, it was able to keep one part of the business open in the form of 17th-Century buchette del vino, or “wine holes”.

Known by few and accessed by even fewer, the Vasari Corridor echoes with the footsteps of dukes and tyrants, and lays claim to one of Europe’s most exclusive art collections.

In an effort to relive his days as a university student in Italy, the Thirsty Explorer finds that the land of espresso is not as familiar as it once was.

BBC Travel reader Gustavo Saraiva is interested in paying a visit to Tuscany’s romantic capital city in the springtime. Our Facebook community offered their advice.