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Castles of Tuscany - Navigated via an index, slide-out menu and interactive maps. Readable history and photographs for each of the many castles or walled towns.
Fondazione Studio Marangoni - The center promote the study of contemporary photography in Tuscany; courses of all, exhibitions and workshops with well-known photographers.
Opificio delle Pietre Dure - Established in XVI century, this laboratory is widely known for the production and workmanship of semiprecious stone furnishings and conservation of ancient artefacts.
Antique Tuscany - Rare antique collectibles and faithful reproductions of the Tuscan and Italian ancient handcraft tradition objects and instruments. Original unique pieces perfectly restored. Terracotta and pottery also available.
Giovanni Fattori - Overview on the works of painter who made known the Tuscan landscapes.
Sardar K. website - Art gallery with some nice watercolors and prints of Tuscany.
Holy Wood - Recording studio, media library, artistic research center, a workshop of arts in a farm of Chianti.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Arts and Entertainment I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. 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(Mike Kaup) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Arts and Entertainment Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Arts and Entertainment "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Arts and Entertainment "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen Arts and Entertainment "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Arts and Entertainment Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Arts and Entertainment If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Arts and Entertainment "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Arts and Entertainment I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Arts and Entertainment The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Arts and Entertainment The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld Arts and Entertainment I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. 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