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Pietro Tacca's bronze Porcellino (Museo Bardini). Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, [1] following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in ...
The region is also noted for its meat. The Cinta Senese pig is unique to this region and produces pork of superior quality. Wild game is a common feature on local menus, including rabbit, pigeon, venison, and, especially, cinghiale (wild boar). Greve is home to one of Italy's oldest and most renowned butcher shops, the Macelleria Falorni.
Statue of Michele di Lando, Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence. The loggia was built around the middle of the 16th century in the heart of the city, just a few steps from the Ponte Vecchio. Initially, it was intended for the sale of silk and luxury goods and then for the famous straw hats, [1] but today mainly leather goods and souvenirs are sold.
Enoteca Pinchiorri is an Italian restaurant in Florence, Italy. The owners are Giorgio Pinchiorri and French-born Annie Féolde. The chefs are Annie Féolde, Italo Bassi and Riccardo Monco. In 2008, the restaurant was voted 32nd best in the world by the British Restaurant magazine. [1]
Italy's agriculture minister said it's important that a health problem doesn't morph into "an economic and social" one. Italy is sending soldiers to stop wild boars menacing its $8.8 billion ...
Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Hercules and the wild boar of Erymanthus - Ferdinando Tacca.jpg. Ferdinando Tacca (1619–1686) was an Italian sculptor and architect, active during the Baroque period in Florence.
Annunziata, Florence. For Giambologna's equestrian statue of Cosimo de' Medici in the Piazza della Signoria , Tacca contributed the bas-relief panels on its base. Taking his inspiration from a famous marble copy of a Hellenistic marble boar ( Il Cinghiale ) in the ducal collection at the Uffizi , Tacca set himself the task of surpassing it: the ...
Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical literary café in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence. [1] When opened in 1896, the cafè was actually called "Fratelli Reininghaus". It was named "Giubbe Rosse" (Red jackets or coats) in 1910, after the red jackets which waiters used to wear every day.