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Villa Gamberaia, built in the Tuscan style by the Florentine gentleman-merchant Zanobi Lapi in the early 1600s, is located on the hillside of Settignano, overlooking the city of Florence, Italy and the surrounding Arno Valley. [Fig. 1 View from the upper terrace] [1]
At one point, he worked at the trattoria Buca Lapi. [2] He cites Luigi Veronelli (for food) and Beppino Lapi (for wine) as being his main influences. The latter taught him all about wine during the 1966 flood of the Arno. [3] He launched the Enoteca Nazionale, then a collection focused exclusively on Italian wines, in 1972.
The Ponte Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo]; [1] "Old Bridge") [2] is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy.The only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during World War II, it is noted for the shops built along it; building shops on such bridges was once a common practice.
Il tumulto dei ciompi by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri (1829–1844). The Ciompi Revolt ([ˈt͡ʃɔm.pi], CHOM-pee; Italian: Tumulto dei Ciompi) was a rebellion among unrepresented labourers which occurred in the Republic of Florence in Tuscany, Italy, from 1378 to 1382.
The presence in the villa of Charles VIII of France is documented in 1495, [3] just before he was about to enter Florence with his army. Villa Pandolfini remained substantially the same until the 17th century, when Filippo Pandolfini [4] made some alterations: constructing a large terrace on the main facade towards the Via Livornese, and the ...
Niccolò Lapi (Florence, c. 1667–1732) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany. Ceiling in San Michele Visdomini. He is described as a follower of Giordano, [1] He painted for the church of San Jacopo Soprarno, the church of Santa Maria dei Candeli, and the church of San Michele Visdomini.
Cappella dei Principi ("Chapel of the Princes" in English) is the mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and their families and is part of the museum complex of the Medici Chapels of Florence, adjacent to the Basilica di San Lorenzo.
Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's little hole" from Italian . [ a ] The chain of 81 establishments [ 2 ] (76 company-owned, 5 franchises in UK) [ 3 ] has been a subsidiary of Planet Hollywood since 2008.