F lorence is a place that invites us to awaken to the oft-overlooked beauty in the present moment & slow down to see the world with the eyes of an artist. 

your time here will be an embrace the small beauty of the present: a pause for the sound of ringing bells, a stop for a creamy taste of homemade gelato, or to notice how the fragrances of the fruit cart vendor and the scurry of modern life mingle in a life lived atop ancient roman relics & unfold under renaissance arches.

​in these ordinary-extraordinary moments, you will taste how italy can transform the mundane or seemingly incidental detail into a wordless beauty that seems to make the present moment merge with the timeless.

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to wander & wonder is our approach.  you are on a treasure hunt, engaging your curiosity to discover the secret messages left behind by generations of artists & artisans' hands. we'll weave through florence's narrow medieval streets & glimpse through open doorways into quiet green courtyards while observed from up high by ubiquitous madonna frescoes gazing down from street corners as they have on passersby for centuries. you'll discover the little-known treasures and meanings "hidden in plain sight" all around you.

entering two of florence's world-renown museums, you'll discover that the forms frozen in cold marble before you seem to come alive as if still under the chisel-wielding hands of michelangelo, and the shapes and colors painted by the medieval hand of giotto or the renaissance brush of davinci speak to you, and you find that you understand their language. you become part of this ancient dialog between art and life, and all at once, you feel  "there & then" in the "here & now".

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accompanied by a passionate artist & expert art history/fine art professor, you touch what has called hundreds of years of travelers like yourself, along with artists,  poets,  philosophers, and pilgrims alike, here to feed the soul.