“After two decades of living around the world, the Dayan family arrived in Florence at a moment when they could finally choose where they wanted to put down roots. From navigating Italian bureaucracy and buying a house, to learning the language and becoming part of the local community, they share what it really means to relocate to Florence and the challenges they are conquering. Meet the Dayans; Tatjana (German) and Alejandro (Argentinian), on the threshold of their Tuscan house in Florence,...

After a childhood in Northern France, Anne-Sophie spent fourteen years in London, before coming to Italy with a love of the language and the dream of a different way of life. More than ten years later, that dream has taken her to Trentino and, eventually, Florence. Some hopes came true; others needed adjusting. After navigating bureaucracy, work culture and Italian social circles, what does Anne-Sophie know now that she didn’t when she arrived? Anne-Sophie looking stylishly summery at the...

I expected another quiet walk in the hills above Florence. Instead, I stumbled across three unsettling stone carvings hidden beside a woodland path on a boundary rock: one of a naked woman or angel, two grotesque faces with gaping mouths, and no obvious clue as to who carved them or why. The first one was of a woman lying down, or a fallen angel. At the entrance to Fiesole woodland stands a line of enormous boulders. The first one is a beautiful carving of a woman (or fallen angel?), along...