Church of Santa Maria Novella Florence

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Hoy nos levantamos tipo 7 y media y después de desayunar nos tomamos el bus 7 hasta la Stazione de Vicenza. LLegamos justo para un tren Regionale a Padova donde dsp cambiamos de tren a Firenza, el viaje dura casi 2 horas y media en total y bajando hasta Firenze vimos nieve en las montañas de Bologna. Por …

I am excited to be in Italy. I have always longed to somewhere in Europe and now here I am.

"I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew"
Frances Mayes- "Under The Tuscan Sun"

We meet our tour manager Rosi Tremsberger and her husband Wolfgang, who is to be our bus driver. The rooms being …

This morning I woke up with a sore throat. It began during my visit to the Uffuzi and, considering they were regulating the air, I had just assumed it was a dry throat; this morning I realised otherwise as I was hoarse and it felt infected. Seems a mundane point to make in a travel blog but I do so intentionally because it actually leads to a …

Hello, again, Blogonauts! Gosh, it has been a couple of days since I've slipped behind the wheel of this blogmobile. There's so much ground to cover! So strap yourselves in ... I'm taking you for a fast spin through history's symbolic art pieces that have come to define Florence. Sunday's railway journey from Venice to Florence was notable only in …

Surprise! On a le Wi-fi à Florence!

C'est nouveau au Locanda Dei Poeti depuis 2 mois.

Nous sommes arrivés en train à Florence à 13h40. Nous avions des billets en première classe c'était très confortable et nous avions même droit à un goûter gratuit pendant le trajet.

En débarquant, nous avons marché de la gare Santa …

le samedi 4 mai 2013

Aujourd'hui, c'est une journée de transition. Nous quittons Rome afin de nous rendre en Florence (Firenze). Je dois admettre que le système de transport en commun italien est impressionnant. Nous quittons notre appartement avec nos valises pour prendre le métro du Colisée à Termini; un trajet très simple! Une fois …

They say life is not about the destination, but the journey. Well, if that's the case I think my mom and I have had a pretty fulfilled life! After bad weather and miscommunications in Charlotte we ended up getting to Philadelphia late and missed our connection to Rome. After quite a fiasco dealing with the airline, we got on a flight... 2 days …

Salutations, avid readers! Manayach here once more from the fair city of Florence. Sorry we're behind by a day or so, as is our nature, when we have free wifi freely available we tend to lag on posting. So! The day before yesterday, where our story left off, we went to the Galleria della Academia, where they keep Michelangelo's David. However, …

Monday, July 12, 2010 – Florence

Here we go, fourth trip across the Atlantic. How lucky am I? As I sit here on the flight from Chicago to Brussels, watching the sunrise over the clouds, I realize what an amazing journey this is going to be. Already, I have been impressed by the areal beauty of Des Moines when we first took off, the …

Les Italiens ici semblent un peu plus accueillants. On s'est meme fait apostrophe par un Florentin sur la piazza Santa Croce qui nous a dit avec le sourire: "Bonjour touristes! D'ou venez-vous?". Dominique et moi etions vraiment surprises par cette approche, mais quelques jours plus tard leur attitude, en general, est redevenue la meme, soit peu …

... the same category as paintings: seen one church seen them all. Well not quite - but almost. Today we saw..... Church of Santa Maria Novella: No photos allowed - this is starting to piss me off! Big frescos on walls - lots of gigantic paintings by ...

... goes early so it is not crowded. Its a great experience. Too scary for me, so I don't join him. Visit Church of Santa Maria Novella (5E). There are turtles holding up part of the column outside. It has several astronomical devices. Has a fantastic ...

... replaced by Masolino, who was replaced by Fillipino Lippi. We then crossed the river again and went to the Church of Santa Maria Novella for Masaccio's ground breaking Trinity, Giotto's Crucifix, and the grandest thing of all, to me anyway, ...

... the main ideas and themes in the painting. I chose a fresco painted on the wall of the Tornabuoni Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella. It was called "The Birth of Mary." It was interesting to see first-hand some of the paintings we had talked ...

... sooo precious! Tuesday & Wednesday: were pretty uneventful. I went on two "field trips" on Wednesday one to the Church of Santa Maria Novella and the other to the Scuola del Cuico- Leather School.  They were both quite interesting and I really ...

... , so we will save the interior of the Duomo until another day.  We set out toward the church of Santa Maria Novella, with its graceful curved and shaped green and white facade and then headed toward the market stalls down the street ...

... Santa Maria Novella. We met in the lobby, spoke for about an hour and then I took her to the Medici Chapel and Church of Santa Maria Novella. She was a very good traveler, listener, and loved the tour very much. Then lunch at Grotto di Leo. She told me ...

... to the eye-popping exterior) The Duomo Museum (church sculpture by bunches of folks, including Donatello) The Church of Santa Maria Novella (medieval frescoes & early Renaissance paintings) The Church of Santa Croce (tombs of Michelangelo, ...

... crust (will add pics of this also!).   Delicious. After our late lunch we headed back to see the Church of Santa Maria Novella .  The inside included;  tombs of Florence’s great rulers, art from medieval  times, stained ...

... and felt like i might be falling... but i wasn't. The afternoon's events felt like a race against time. I squeezed in the church of Santa Maria Novella and is museum, the Basilica of San Lorenzo, the Baptistry and the interior of the Duomo. I have to the ...