by Cortona Mia | Dec 4, 2016 | Blog in English |
The Italian town of Cortona, 70 miles south east of Florence, is a standard-issue slice of Tuscan loveliness, with hilltop location, picturesquely crumbling palazzi and alfresco antipasti, not to mention the Britons in Boden scanning estate agents’ windows. What’s... 
by Cortona Mia | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog in English |
Antique Market in Arezzo On the first Sunday of every month, and the Saturday before, when its Piazza The Antique Market in Arezzo is considered one of the best antique fairs in Tuscany and was the first market of its kind to be established in Italy in 1968. It’s held... 
by Cortona Mia | Jan 10, 2016 | Blog in English |
From the Florentine.net Discussing “la dolce vita” with the author Oonagh Stransky January 10, 2016 – 8:35 In 1996 Frances Mayes published Under the Tuscan Sun, a memoir about buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona. It... 
by Cortona Mia | May 20, 2015 | Blog in English |
European travel: A grand tour of Italy From “Herald Sun” Magazine Beyond olive groves and vineyards, tall pines stretch graciously across the plains. Swallows swirl over red-tiled rooftops, church towers vie with cypresses as focal points, and broad fields merge into... 
by Cortona Mia | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog in English |
The hill town of Cortona rises above the Val di Chiana, its white marble and stonework reflecting the sun like some great beacon. This Etruscan town’s origins actually predate recorded history, but its storied existence has long been a focus of commerce, pilgrimage,... 
by Cortona Mia | Jun 25, 2010 | Blog in English |
IT was love at first sight. Henry James was 26 when he crossed the border from Switzerland and made his way, on foot, down into Italy — “warm & living & palpable,” as he wrote ecstatically to his sister on Aug. 31, 1869. The romance kindled that day lasted...