Street-food tour among the wine holes in Florence

Street-food tour among the wine holes in Florence

Florence, as the cradle of the Renaissance, is known all over the world for its gastronomic excellences! How to combine culture and good cuisine? With this original tour of Florence

designed around the city's historic shops and the San Lorenzo food market which includes a sort of treasure hunt to search for the so-called "buchette del vino". These small openings served, in the past, for the sale and mixing of wine. Thanks to several stages you will have the opportunity to meet some ancient Florentine families who had planned the opening in the facades of their palaces. Art and culture will alternate with special tastings: a glass of Chianti red wine with the typical Italian bruschetta, a thick slice of bread topped with a few drops of 100% Tuscan extra virgin olive oil, local salami, ham and cheese, a "Pappa al Pomodoro" "take away or a Ribollita soup and some typical cantuccini biscuits to dip in the sweet wine of Vin Santo!

Itinerary
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Stop At: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Via Camillo Cavour 1-3, 50129, Florence Italy

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.


Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Piazza del Duomo, 50122, Florence Italy

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.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, Piazza di Santa Trinita, 1, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

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.

Duration: 15 minutes