Your guide, your questions, your Florence — from the Accademia's early quiet to a family enoteca that doesn't take walk-ins.

Art historians who know the David's chisel marks, its asymmetry, and why the prisoners beside him were never finished.

The Medici, the guilds, the rivalry behind Florence's greatest masterpieces. Your guide makes the Renaissance feel personal.

Early entry means the David in near-total quiet, with time for everything beside him that most visitors walk straight past.

Bistecca from the butcher the restaurants use, Chianti from a family barrel, lardo di Colonnata still cured in marble.