Thursday, September 2, 2010

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In September Italians return from their vacations. Many festivals take place the first Sunday in September as summer comes to an end. You’ll still find small food festivals throughout Italy during the month where you can usually sample inexpensive regional food.

Here are just some top September events worth attending:

Venice Film Festival, a huge international film festival on the Lido starts in late August. International Film Festivals in Italy

Palio di San Rocco in Figline Valdarno (definition of palio) in Tuscany. The palio includes five days of medieval competitions with jousting, archery, and a horse race during the first week of September.

Read more about these and many other September Festivals in Italy.

Looking for festivals in Italy for other months? Check Festival Listings by Month.

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Ciao Bambino: Traveling to Italy with small children CAN be done! Ciao Bambino takes the hard work out of finding the perfect accommodations & activities that cater to you and your young ones, so that you may enjoy your holiday in Italy.


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Toscana Hus welcomes you to a vast array of exquisite holiday homes in Italy.  Based in Tuscany and offering a charming selection of our holiday houses concentrated in the Siena and Florence areas of Tuscany.


logocastello~For many, no dream is more enticing dream than to own your own home in Italy. Castello di Casole makes this dream an infinitely closer reality, for not only does it offer what are surely Tuscany’s most remarkable villas and surrounding estate, but also the choice of whole or residential interests ownership. At 4,200 acres, Castello di Casole is an estate of epic proportion. Vineyards and orchards of olive trees pattern the hillsides. Dotting the estate are restored Casali farmhouses each with dramatic glass-tiled private pools. Two grand cypress-lined lanes ascend to a historic castle, soon to be an intimate 5-star boutique hotel with suites created in the grand and authentic Tuscan style. At the hotel there will be fine and casual dining rooms that open to terraces and a pool along with a world-class spa and fitness center will be inspired by the region’s fragrances and natural approach to diet and exercise.

For more information, please visit Castello di Casole. or contact them at 866-963-5005 or in Europe at +39 0577 967511.

Whether it be in whole ownership or through the residential interest program or a memorable stay in the 5-star Hotel Castello di Casole coming soon…this is Tuscany…past, present, perfect.

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Palazzo Tornabuoni welcomes you to the ultimate experience of living la dolce vita in Florence – A home away from home where nothing quite like it exists anywhere in the world. A residence of distinction – offering whole ownership opportunities with unique contemporary comfort – perfectly blended with the finest 15th century elegant charm Florence had to offer. Palazzo Tornabuoni captures perfectly the spirit of Florence in its balance of effortless traditional elegance and contemporary flair. Palazzo Tornabuoni combines the exceptional service of Four Seasons, with the finest historic and cultural aspects of Florence, Italy.

Palazzo Tornabuoni…Welcome to Florence…Welcome Home.

Visit the Palazzo Tornabuoni website for more information.



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