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If you want to go to the beach during your holiday to Tuscany, you want to be sure that you’ll have a wonderful experience. A Blue Flag Awarded beach or marina is guaranteed to provide you with just that.

This is an eco-friendly award that is given to beaches all over the world that comply with regularly maintained high standards in cleanliness, high water quality, great facilities and environmental awareness. To date, Tuscany has over thirty beaches that have earned this prestigious award.


The concept of this Blue Flag eco award originated in France in 1985 and has since become a global reference for tourists who want a pleasurable seaside experience on their holidays.

Tuscany’s Blue Flag beaches are located along the coastal provinces of Lucca, Pisa, Livorno and Grosetto. Of course, there’s a huge range of gorgeous seaside accommodation along the coastline, including luxury villas in Forte dei Marmi town in Lucca province and apartments overlooking the sea. A visit to any Blue Flag beach along here is sure to enrich your holiday experience!

A holiday to Tuscany that includes a trip to the artistic city of Florence wouldn't be complete without a visit to the splendid Galleria degli Uffizi in Piazza della Signoria!

This glorious building houses some of the most famous art and sculptures created by the masters of the Renaissance, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Sandro Botticelli.


Tourists wishing to stay here for a few days have a superb selection of stylish apartments to rent in Florence city or spacious luxury villas on the outskirts with excellent commuting services available to travel into Florence.The Galleria degli Uffizi was commissioned in the 16th century by the Medici family and can rightly be declared as a masterpiece in itself! It houses an incredible collection of artwork dating from the Middle Ages until the present day.

Visitors can enjoy embarking on an elaborate guided tour of the Gallery which seems to visually describe the history of Florence itself. There are forty five rooms open to the public; each one dedicated a singular or group of artists, sculptors, architects, scientists or literary masters.

A holiday to Tuscany wouldn't be complete without a visit to some of the the 14th century artworks created by the famous painter, Leonardo da Vinci, many of which are located in art galleries in Florence city!

This talented Renaissance artist helped to put Florence on the map during the ‘Enlightened Era’ and tourists are guaranteed to enjoy a wonderful cultural experience as they follow in his footsteps! Those wishing to spend some of their holiday to Tuscany in or around the city of Florence have plenty of stylish apartments and comfortable holiday villas to rent, where they can relax after a few days of stimulating art appreciation.

Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in the charming town of Vinci in the province of Florence. Visitors can enjoy a guided tour around a lovely museum here called ‘Museo Leonardiano’ which contains some of his many inventions, drawings and notes. Also worth a visit is Casa di Leonardo, the farmhouse nearby where he was born and raised.

Discover the fascinating stories of the man renowned as Italy’s best storyteller called Giovanni Boccaccio and the story of the famous Renaissance painter called Piero della Francesca. Both men were pioneers in their fields of expertise and contributed much to Italian cultural heritage.

Visitors wishing to tour around sites where their work is housed would be well situated by staying in a lovely holiday rental near Florence, Italy where most of it resides. There is a lavish selection of luxury apartments and holiday accommodation available to choose from.

Giovanni Boccaccio was born in either Certaldo or Florence in 1313 and became a massive influence in storytelling during the 14th century. His most famous literary work is called ‘Decameron’ which mean ‘ten days’.

It tells the story of a group of three men and seven women who flee from Florence during the dreaded Black Plague as it sweeps unmercifully through the city. It’s a collection of one hundred tales involving these characters and offers those who read it, a unique insight into what Florence was like in the 1300s.

If you have a passion for history and the arts then your holiday to Tuscany wouldn't be complete without including a fascinating trail in the footsteps of Italy’s famous writer, Dante Alighieri! He is referred to as ‘Il Sommo Poeta’, The Supreme Poet or as ‘The Father of the Italian Language’.

His enormous contribution to establishing Italian as a language in its own right as well creating one of the greatest literary masterpieces in the world has earned him a worthy mention as one of Tuscany’s finest creative masters.

Tourists wishing to spend their Tuscan holiday here have a lavish selection of stylish apartments and luxury villas in Florence to choose from.

There is so much to do and see here relating to the intriguing life and work of Dante as well as many other masters of the arts which are mentioned in related articles.

Weave around the sites in the city of Florence where Dante was born! It was here that he firmly established his name in the literary world and fell deeply in love with the creativity of this Renaissance city.