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Valentine’s Day gifts: The Promise of Florence
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Give the promise of Florence this Valentine’s Day. Help local businesses from across the miles by selecting a specialty gift. Here’s
The Florentine’s pick of the crop for the
Tuscany lovers in your life. Many ship internationally and have English-friendly online shops.
Indulge in Florence-crafted confectionery by Urzi Cioccolato, a quality chocolatier owned and operated by Maria Antonella Urzi and her husband Francesco Montrone. The via Gioberti store and lab was founded by Antonella’s father in Scandicci over three decades ago and moved to Florence a couple of years back out of a need for larger premises. The first firm in Italy to care about the complete production of chocolate, from cocoa beans grown in San Salvador, Ecuador and São Tomé to finished bar, the decadent goods have found their way to Fifth Avenue boutiques and into the homes of royalty an