Nearly every street in Florence is brick or stone. We must have walked 3-4 miles today.
In the last couple of days we saw michealangelo's David. The sculpture is unbelievable. His hands are enormous. The artist sculpted veins and intricate muscles.
We also visited the Duomo, a large church in the center of town. It was built starting in the 1200s or 1300s and took nearly 2 centuries to complete. The structure has green, pink and white tiles in a geometric forms.
Today we visited the city's only synagogue, a sephardic community of about 1000 lives here. The synagogue is moorish
In structure but has an organ inside. We learned that the city's jews lived in a ghetto for nearly 300 years, longer than the US has been a country! They were not given citizenship until the mid 1800s.
We spent the rest of the day walking around including the famous ponte vecchio bridge.
Tomorrow it is on to wine country on a tour. We were going to rent a car but it would be insane to try and try in this city, chaos reigns on the road.
We have some technical glitches with this blog that is why there are no pictures. But I am working on it. Stay tuned...you should also be able to post comments now.
Bono sera!
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Wow, I am delighted that you are having such a wonderful time.
ReplyDeleteImagine, walking in Florence, with all the gorgeous art, food,
wine, leather goods, gold jewelry...Florence has to be one of
my favorite places, and one day, if I am lucky, I will have a chance
to walk the Ponte Vecchio.....
Love every minute,guys....
Love, Phylls
Great Fun, Sore Feet
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to to see the photos
ReplyDeleteStar in Marietta
I finally got it to work in windows
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see pics of michealangelo's David.
-Star and Ted, Marilyn