Today has been beautiful. I don't have much time to post about today but I will say that our first trip to Florence could not have been better. Gorgeous weather, new friends, incredible places and awe-inspiring vistas. I'll post pictures later cause the internet here shuts off at 11 so we can get good sleep. I miss everyone but I can't imagine being happier anywhere but here. I LOVE ITALY!!! And it hasn't even fully set in that I'm here!! It'll only get better. <3
Molly
Later:
Pictures!!
Allison and I on the train to FLORENCE for the first time!
The Medici chapel
Ethan and Sara in one of many piazzas
Sara and I in front of the Duomo, or church of St. Mary of the Flower(Santa Maria de la Fiore). It's probably the most distinguishable marker on the landscape of Florence. You can tell it's Florence when you can see the dome!
Daniel on a crowded street
The facade of the Duomo. Most people thing it's called the Duomo because it sounds like dome, but Duomo actually means house of God, or a religious meeting place. These decorations weren't completed til the 1800's, so most of what you see is relatively new.
Another view of Brunelleschi's dome (The duomo). He completed it in a very short amount of time due to his genius in architecture.
This is a picture of the inside of the workshop in which all the repairs of the marblework on the Duomo have been conducted. Some people say there have been so many repairs and replacement of pieces of marble that the facade doesn't have any of it's original pieces!
Dante's church. Dante as in Dante's Inferno. We talked about the two loves of his life, Beatrice and Gemma.
Crazy man performing selections from Dante's Inferno outside the Museum of Dante.
A beautiful piazza. I think this was in the Piazza de la Repubblica.
The David used to stand in front of this building!
We climbed up SO FAR and got to see some really incredible vistas of the layout of the city from the rose gardens that are across the Arno River and outside the old walls of the city.
Maggie, Allison and I in front of Florence! (Firenze in Italian.)
MORE steps. We were almost dead by this point in time.
Cemetery of the church of San Miniato, a martyr who was likely beheaded in Florence's amphitheatre before the time of the Edict of Toleration, so sometime in the 4th century.
A fresco on the wall of the church
Me and Kristy outside San Miniato
Me and Kyle! He's our assistant director/part-time tour guide. And he's hilarious!
View of the Arno River from the Ponte Veccio. It's a huge partially covered bridge with beautiful stucco arches that's lined with jewelry vendors.
Me and Sara on the Ponte Veccio
Jewelry stores on the Ponte Veccio
We touched the pig, which means we'll come back to Italy someday!
No comments:
Post a Comment