Florence Street Food Tour: Discover "Wine Holes", Tuscan Flavors & Renaissance Culture

Highlights

• Private Licensed Tour Guide
• Wine Tasting & Local Delicacies
• Unique "Wine Hole" Hunt

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Palazzo Medici Riccardi

   15min

   In 2016 it was discovered, during restoration work to the ancient Renaissance palace, in one of the ancient doors that give on u via Ginori a historic "wine-box" reappeared and buchette - also known for their form tabernacles of wine - are a testimony of Florentine life. They served for the direct sale, from the producer to the consumer, of the wine, of which in the Florence of the Renaissance and of the following centuries there was a great consumption. The citizens "knocked" at the little holes obtained at the entrances of the palaces of landowners who made available the products of their estates, they delivered with the necessary money the traditional empty fiasco and they got it back filled full by the cellars. A daily practice, with all the qualities that today are said of the "zero kilometer": genuine wine, coming only from the vineyards and certain estates, without mediations and taxes.

2. 2

   Piazza Del Duomo

   15min

   The buzzer of the Naldini del Riccio palace opens directly into the wood of the large entrance door, in an unusual way (only 9 cases in all of Florence) and practical. It measures 32x20.5 cm and must have seen a number of flasks pass through, in that central and privileged position in which it is located.

3. 3

   Stop 3

   15min

   On the facade of Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni Vivai is one of the prettiest little holes and better preserved in the city. At the moment it represents a unicum of its kind, framed by a sort of portal of a Renaissance palace, with its original little door. Not far from a stone plaque indicates the time and the period for the sale of wine. Opening 31x19.5 cm.

Before you go

Location