Ariston Florence
Via Fiesolana 40 Florence, Tuscany, 50122, Italy
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Fresh air and half the traffic of Rome
... and interpret it is completely overwhelming. Our untrained eyes recognised many of the artworks including Botticelli's Birth of Venus. We have a print of the painting in our hotel room.
We wandered the streets of Florence with so many tourists out and about it is such a lovely atmosphere. We enjoyed a lovely dinner near ...
Still alive
... you first go through a hallway with a lot of unfinished pieces by Michelangelo. This gives you a respect for all the effort that went into these sculptures. First they are chiseled into the vague shape. Then, bit by bit, they are sanded into their proper forms. I have no idea what they used for sandpaper in 1504, but I can’t imagine it was a simple process. Plus, marble is hard. I’m impressed that David only took 2 years ...
School begins
Yes, I am actually taking classes while here. My alarm clock went off at 7:00 a.m. and I was in class at 8.
My professor has very high expectations on me for the independent study class as well as the Public Relations strategies class I am taking.
After class today I explored Florence with Steve. We went to the Duomo and took pictures and spent time enjoying the beauty of such an ...
The Day of the 3 Davids
... man’s treasure! After seeing David, we continued walking around the gallery, seeing plaster molds of numerous Roman emperors and sculptures, as well as a section of the museum that housed paintings portraying famous love stories. Most were from the Bible, and ancient Greek and Roman mythology. So cool to see how an entire story can be portrayed in one picture with four to five different scenes.
After the ...
Florence: Uffizi, Art, and Enchantment
... view from the top of that hill from magnificent, you could see every single building, especially all the major ones like the Duomo, from that view, it was awesome (although nothing compared to the view from the top of the Duomo, which I would come to find out later).
So anyway, after a long day driving to and back from Venice on Friday, we FINALLY were able to spend an entire day in Florence, and boy was it worth the wait.
The one thing ...



