Tulip Inn Mirage Hotel Florence

... we finished it just in time to take in the Florentine Hall of Fame in the square outside the Uffizi. There are sculptures of all the heavy hitters from the Renaissance including Macchiavelli, Dante, Galileo, Donatello, Michelangelo and on, and on. It was like an outdoor walk through an intellectual Cooperstown. <br><br> We finished our walk at Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful bridge with its own incredible history (including being the only ...

... was a full hour and nicely walked us through the entire structure. (Note to travelers: you can buy tickets to the Colosseum at the bottom of Palatine Hill and there isn't a line! It's a little secret!) The tidbits of knowledge Rick provided were fantastic: we saw the remnants of the elevators used to lower and raise set changes/people/animals on &amp; off the main floor, the thumbs up/down the crowds used to vote on whether someone should ...

... close to some artworks and then to stand well back and have a good look at them. You can't always do this if there are swarms of people crowding in front of each work. Especially the very famous/popular ones. And in the Uffizi there are ridiculously famous artworks in every room! It is insane how much amazing art they have in there!<br><br>I have visited the Uffizi before, when I was ten, but I don't really remember it at all, so it was like seeing everything for the ...

... companions in Carozza 10 helped me to bring down my heavy backpack from the train rack, brought my shoes out from under the seat, and put the backpack on my back. I said a jolly "grazie" and "ciao" to them. First thing I did, I popped into the small tourist office in the station and got charged 1 euro for a map (this is the first place in Italy where the official tourist office charges you, and it may be the only one). <br><br> Outside SMN station, I surveyed the ...

Rented an apartment in a villa which was at the top of a mountain (like most villas in Tuscany), however, our journey to the top was not on a paved road which made for some challenging driving. The villa was really nice with its own pool and great view over the countryside. The owners also provided fabulous meals in their other ...

... and he from Poland- and we chatted for a while and they talked me in to having a lemonchello for an after dinner drink from which I am starting to feel the results. He grew up in New Jersey near where I did. <br><br>When they left this really good looking man (probably in his 50's was walking down the street and came up to me and started a conversation while I was eating.) He and a business buddy ended up sitting right behind me at the next ...

... sculpture you don't realize how large and impressive it is until you are staring it in the face. Jen is on photo duty because she can do the stealthy Paparazzi pics. She gets busted a couple times but keeps going and in the end gets some great shots. There is not much else in the museum that impresses us and frankly I kind of think some of the Bellini stuff we saw in Galleria Burghese may have been more impressive than even David. After ...

... gang in front of me, I found out we could buy tickets at the Archaeological museum around the corner and wait in a shorter line, so off I went! David was beautiful! One piece of marble, so detailed, and smooth looking. I loved watching the people around the statue, crowds of tourists, tour guides with their microphones and flags, young and old sitting and sketching, and then the people like me - eyes &amp; mouth wide open in amazement.

  Hello, all!  I should really just be calling this a food blog, because every time I sit down to write, that's all that comes to mind... We left Padova (my parents and I -- they're here visiting!!) this morning to go to Firenze.  When we got here, we got a very ... regular lunch, whatever, and went to the Galleria dell'Accademia, which is where the David by Michelangelo is, most famously ...

... un aspetto particolare. Qui c'è lo stesso passaggio verificatosi quando la geometria euclidea fu superata dalle geometrie lobacewskyane o iper-euclidee o non euclidee; c'è lo stesso passaggio di quando Copernico scoprì la non realtà delle teorie tolemaiche. Aspetti della ricerca epistemologica,Filosofia della Conoscenza,Filosofia della Scienza, nella scienza stessa. Il tentativo di assorbire integralmente la filosofia nelle scienze trova la sua principale ragion d'essere negli ...