Cosimo I and Eleonora of Toledo

When Cosimo I (not to be confused with Cosimo the Elder) was born in 1519 the Medici had already run Florence for quite a while.

My Florence

It’s sometimes easy to take all the beautiful sites in Florence for granted. They’re just there.

Food in Florence

Everyone knows how important food is to an Italian. This is even more true in Florence. If you’ve ever had dinner with a Florentine, you know that at the dinner table