Arezzo
Travel Blogs from Arezzo, Italy
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Arezzo
... started walking in the direction of a tall tower we saw, assuming that it would be near the centro storico (historic center) of Arezzo. After a long climb uphill, and several turns, we came upon Piazza del Duomo, and there was the duomo in front of ...
Arezz continued
... up our hire car, the mighty Fiat Panda, and with some trepidation set off on the wrong side of the road into peak hour Arezzo traffic! After the adrenalin subsided a little we found ourselves, well we still don't know where we ended up, let's just call ...
Under the Tuscan Snow
... rest of the way up to Massa. Shoot, that wasn't brief was it? Sorry. Okay, so now. We are in Arezzo, a city in the middle of Italy where Life Is Beautiful was filmed. We are living in an apartment here for 2 weeks and are attending an Italian ...
Ahh Tuscany...
... imagined it to be. My parents and sister have stayed here, and it was very different from what I thought they described. I imagined Arezzo to be a sleepy village, but it's actually a bustling little town.The villa, however, was exactly as I'd imagined. It ...
Rossi country
... day - but at least we had the lovely villa to come back too! Oh, something that I had forgotten about our drive back to Arezzo - roadside prostitutes! We're driving down the road and we see this young girl on the side of the road, in a rest stop, talking ...
Arezzo and Anghiari
We took the train to Arezzo early yesterday morning and walked around the town for a few hours, which was a really small "city" with some beautiful churches, nice caffes, and a really huge park called Parco il Prato. We had some trouble finding the park ...
Ciao Italia
... although she couldn't remember much english, I emerged unscathed sans mohawk! We spent the last day wandering the streets of Arezzo in the raiin and discovered new nooks and crannies, it's that sort of town where there are more locals than tourists ...
DECEMBER!!!!!!
It's DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited I can't sleep at night and I wanted to just point out how exciting everything is right now so that you can all lie awake at night, sleepless and excited as well! It's not Novemblah anymore!! It is finally the ...
Arezzo & Florence
Today we hopped on the train to Florence, for those unfamiliar with the Italian rail system, make sure you validate your ticket by having it stamped in an obscure yellow machine on the platform before you board.Fortunately we had read about this, ...
Cortona
... a meeting place for Hollywood stars. Cortona has very narrow and steep streets, purrfect for pets. Finally we arrived back at Arezzo and after booking a haircut for myself tomorrow (the hairdresser doesn't speak English so that will be exciting) I am ...
Back on deck in Arezzo
We have finally found an internet cafe, after a lengthy search! After successfully boarding the train for a two hour ride to Arezzo (Rome's Stationale Termini was a challenge!), we arrived at our new digs “Casa San Martino”. After a confusing ...
Road trip through Tuscany!
... , and after a halfhearted attempt to talk him down farther, we say okay and fork over the cash. From our drive in, Arezzo seemed a thoroughly modern Italian town, with factories and car lots all over the place. But a few minutes' walk from our ...
Arezzo and Cortona - Under A Tuscan Sun
... very Tuscan... so Tuscan indeed that the Academy Award winning Benigni film 'Life Is Beautiful' was partly filmed here in the Piazza Grande. Arezzo is a city famous for frescoes in its churches. It is relatively small for a city of 90,000, but it is an ...
We Have Arrived in Tuscany !
... is near Arrezzo, in-between Florence and Siena. After three fun-filled days at EuroDisney, we left early yesterday (November 02) for Italy. Our weather while at Disney had been nasty -- cold (3 degrees), very grey, and very, very wet (at times ...
Nutso to be in Arezzo!!
... ; Where the heck is that? If it's not next to the Uffizi museum then I'm not interested! We continue driving towards Arezzo (thank God for the GPS unit in the car) and catch glimpses of a spectacular sunset. We get to the hotel and ...
arezzo, pas si inspirante
Arezzo, la ville qui a suposement inspirer michelange !! 500 ans plus tard, on se deman de bien ce qui a pu l'inspirer! Puis c'est roberto bellini qui a fait son fillm "la vita est bella" dans les cantons a l'extrerieur des murs de la ville. C'est vrai ...
Arezzo surprises galore!!!!
Arrived in Arezzo around 3pm, found the information center and arranged a B&B for 70 Euro for the night. (about 30 meters from the info center). Took to the streets for the sights not knowing what was in store. There seemed to be a parade taking ...
Day 3
... I had to fly from Charlotte to Toronto, Toronto to Rome, take a train from the Rome airport to downtown Rome, then a train to Arezzo. Needless to say, it felt like two days of traveling. I was a walking zombie when we finally arrived. I ...
Arezzo: A Day of Favorites!
... the award-winning and B-C fav - "Life is Beautiful." Having just been to Lucca, we had high expectations and got more! Arezzo quickly became my favorite Tuscan "city." It has very few tourist/shops and just felt very real. We came ...
Performance
Hi there, So, its been five days since my last entry. With that in mind I'm probably going to do two different entries. This is the first one: So, Monday night the 15th, we had our spacing/tech rehearsal. Now in the states we would have ...
The hunt is on!
... city have grown over the centuries – some of the original old walls remain while others have been rebuilt in recent years. Arezzo was a major farming center and was one of the most important cities in the ancient word, together with Rome and Capua. ...
The Art and Arezzo
... haven’t had much time to go exploring or anything but this weekend will definitely be the start of a grand adventure. The city of Arezzo is surrounded by a giant fortress wall, no joke. So to enter the city you have to walk through the walls. But ...
Roma, plus sunshine in Tuscany
... we were home and pretty knackered. Well worth it though. After that, Thursday was always going to be a quiet day. We headed into Arezzo for a low key look around, yep it’s just another ancient city. Chilled out back at the house, then at about 5:30 ...
Ciao Arezzo!
... explained in my earlier blogs that I came here as part of a summer study abroad program for college students, that lead into the Arezzo Festival. So, kids from the U.S. came here for five weeks to study either dance, film, or theater. My ...
First Day Out
After finally getting some rest in and settling down we headed to the next city over, Arezzo. We were told there was an antique market and Jousting event. We took the bus over and got dropped off right in the center so walked around to no where. None of ...
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