Villa Nencini Volterra
Borgo Santo Stefano 55 Volterra, Tuscany, Italy
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... of alabaster and the tools they use to shape it. He said there were three colors of alabaster: white, grey, and brown. Brown is the most expensive type of alabaster and white and grey aren’t as expensive.
Then we saw two demonstrations of how they sculpt the alabaster. The sculptor made a vase and an apple for us. Then we all got to shop for souvenirs. After that we split into two groups. One group stayed behind and the ...
Volterra
... alabaster covered Duomo/cathedral, which was my favorite because it had Gregorian singing going on throughout the church, very neat alabaster art (they can make everything out of that stuff!), old old old buildings, coats of arms everywhere, and an Etruscan arch that was from 400 B.C., supposedly the oldest one in the world. It kind of looked like any other arch, just maybe a bit more eroded. But we looked and oohed and ahhed and did ...
Firenze
Got in around 7pm, and ate my picnic dinner on the steps of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. The following day, I walked through the old city, up to a ...
Fortress with a view... entry one felony!!
We arrived from Lucca just in time for a sublime sunset... it was like the sky was on fire!! See photos!!
I was a bit pooped so I opted to stay in the scoobs reading and relaxing while Kim headed into the village to scope it out.
Next morning started with a beautiful sunrise which was quickly replaced by some storm clouds. Fortunatly the storm passed over without parting with a drop of rain and we had sun again when we both ...
Florence, days 2, 3, and 4
... gave us a birds eye view of the city, and the basilica, so we weren’t very sad about it. The stairs up the tower were windy and marble, and we could definitely feel the way the tower was leaning when we were hiking up and down the stairs. It was also extremely hot, so that walk was a workout!! We learned in Pisa that nobody is sure who the architect of the tower is, which is strange, since almost every other building in Italy was ...



