Grain Market (Loggia del Grano) Florence

OMG.....this trip has been sooooo amazing, it's becoming overwhelming. We spent the day in Florence, Stuart's ready to sell up and move here and we've shopped up a storm!!!



Florence is beautiful, but without a doubt, it's most beautiful treasure is David. Michelangelo's David, the finest specimen of a man ever to emerge from a …

... in the valley they were about to settle.  We saw a grain market that had been turned into a cathedral, but kept the grain market upstairs - so the columns were hollow to allow the grain to be moved up and down.  We learned about the Medici ...

... Duomo, I again took my friend's advice and headed to Orsanmichele, a small church that had been converted from a grain market into a church between 1380 and 1404. The inside was magnificent. I only got one picture before being told that ...

... was originally placed.  It originally sat on the side of the OrsanMichele. The OrsanMichele was converted into a church from a grain market after a painting of the Virgin Mary appeared on one of the inside walls and protected people from the ...