Today in Florence!
Author: get back, laurettadimmick
Coffee and treats in Florence
Every chance I get, I stop in at Gilli’s, a bar/pasticceria on the Piazza della Repubblica in Florence. Stepping in the door, one enters an Old World establishment at its very finest. I love it!
























Deck the palazzo! Florentine style.

Ah, Firenze! You bewitch with your endless wonders!
Palazzo Corsini
Jingle bells, in Italiano!
The color black according to Coco Chanel
Quando troverò un colore più scuro del nero, lo indosserò. Ma fino a quel momento, mi vestirò di nero (Coco Chanel)

“When I find a color darker than black, I will wear it. Until then, I’ll wear black.”
Stir a little French into your wardrobe
And learn a little something at the same time!
In Italy, real men iron
2 designs for evening by Balmain, 1960s


Walking through Florence’s historical center, I spied…
This sign in marble. The sign of a gone but not forgotten Florentine business.
This evocative old surviving street sign for this long lost business in the heart of Florence, announces “Antica Cascina di Dario Peruzzi.”. Translated it advertises this “old farmhouse,” which served (or sold for takeaway) milk, cream and butter and “a bar room” of coffee and milk. I wish I could time travel in for a moment or two to see what like was like inside this lost business. Dario Peruzzi, whoever you were, I remember you.

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