Rent or Buy a Cell Phone

A cellphone is one of these things, for the very simple reason that the majority of the times if you have no way to communicate at cheap rates, whenever you want, you will have to be rely on others to put you through with the right person and complete the call successfully.

Let's take a restaurant reservation while you are in Siena or in Florence, for example. Do you know which one is best? Do you know where to look up the number?

Thanks to the yellowpages service (pagine gialle), you will have all the info necessary to chose your restaurant, to localize it, and to reserve it.

There are so many companies that will sell you a phone for as little as 50 euros with 10 euros of outgoing traffic included, voicemail, international SMS and MMS capabilities already included, and totally free incoming calls, from wherever in the world. The companies in Italy are TIM, Vodafone, Wind, Insim, Fastweb, PosteMobile, 3...you name it! Moreover all cellphones in Italy are unlocked, so when you go back home you can use it with your own sim card! All Mhz bands are usually included nowadays, so the phone will work wherever in the world.

THE LEGEND OF THE REVERSED BALCONY

Florence, like all the medieval towns have a lot of legends about curious and strange events that have occurred in the past times.
Florence, like all the historical towns, has many charming and unknown little corners.
Sometimes those little corners are the subject of the ancient legends, like in the case of the legend of The Reversed Balcony, that show the irriverent character of the Florentines and the Tuscany people in general.
In the centre of Florence in via Borgo Ognissanti number 12 there is a balcony, at the first floor, that was built with all the classical elements, the supporting corbels, the volutes and the balustrades ... that are assembled all counter wise.
The building with this balcony is dated to the 16th century, and seems to have been built in that curious way on a request of the stable's builder, for a revenge with the Duke Alessandro De' Medici. Seems, in fact, that the Duke at the moment of the project proposal, rejected the project cause of the prominents of the balcony, at the time there was a law that forbade the contruction of balconies all over the city. It is said that the builder presented the project more times with only few things modified between one time to another, leaving the balcony almost unchanged, and it is said that at least the Duke wrote on one of his responses: "yes on the contrary". The builder, it is said, applying the answer of the Duke, ordered to his architect to build the balcony upside down. Finally when the Duke saw the balcony, it is said, would liked to punish the constructor .... but as Florentine .... probably .... apprecciated and approved his presence of mind ....