Hotel Machiavelli

... , seems very relaxed and organized. He is from Essaouira and has a degree in Eng Lit. Jolly dinner together at the Hotel Guynemer. Ten Australians, a Slovene & an American (who has been working in Iraq). Personalities jelled quite well.... 21 Oct ...

... that was home to the Medici family and later Napolean. Crossed the Ponte Vecchio and then rang back along the river towards the Hotel. On the way a fellow runner spotted me studing my map and suggested I head down towards a park which I had come across ...

... streets hundreds of years old where once walked, just like us, Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci, Raphael, Galilieo, Lorenzo di Medici, Machiavelli, Petrach, Bocccacio, Giotto, Botticelli, and on and on and on. Right then and there it gripped me tight and ...

... churches, a museum, a walled city, a farm/ winery for lunch, and a 2nd winery in the afternoon that was the home of Machiavelli.  Considering other tours I had found online were upwards of 75 Euros each, I was excited about this tour and I felt it ...

... me and swore I would, though but a mortal, one day have my vengeance. Surely this system of streets had been designed by Machiavelli himself. And yet, the temptation -- how hard could it be to go straight, make a left, then make another left? It made ...

... to Amanda, Cory's sister. She is taking art history courses in college and we are about to see the tomb of Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Galileo. The plan was to see the Cappella a dei Pazzi but by changing the plans for the wedding paperwork we have ...

... ;Basilica di Santa Croce . Everyone who was famous in Florence is memorialized here. Mike... here. Galileo... here. Fermi... here. Machiavelli... here. Rossini... here. Dante... here. You get the idea? As a Church it's not the prettiest but a a ...

... , Michelangelo), Church of Santa Croce (Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Rossellino, Michelangelo; tombs -- of people like Machiavelli, Galileo, Michelangelo; Pazzi Chapel), Accademia (Michelangelo's David).  I cannot even begin to describe how ...

... would be able to recognize quality if we saw it. It was amusing to visit the Basilica of Santa Croce where such notables as Dante, Machiavelli, and Rossini are buried. Later, three of us got thoroughly lost trying to find our way back to the hotel. In the ...

... 1 ½ hours walking around the city and ended up at Santa Croce where the memorials to Galileo, Michelangelo, Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli and Rossini (and several others) are located. We also spent some time viewing the sculptures of Michelangelo (both ...

... of this amazing city. We went straight to Sante Croce, a church that houses the remains of Michaelangelo, Galileo, Dante, Machiavelli... there were obviously many important people buried in this church in the floor and around the walls! We then walked ...

... Duomo. We then went to the Church of Santa Croce (no relationship to Jim) and saw the amazing tombs of Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Gallileo, and a memorial to Dante. They were setting up the stage in the Piazza for the European MTV awards show ...

... discovery for me), Julius Caesar’s Commentaries, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Boccaccio, Tacitus, Plato, Plutarch, Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and more recently, the autobiography of US Grant, works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Balzac, F. Scott ...

... is underrated. 8) Visit some of the smaller churches in Florence:  i) The church of Santa Croce is where Dante, Machiavelli, Rosssini, Michelangelo and Galileo are buried.  Behind the church is Florence's leather school where you can see and ...

... deeds with the joyful simplicity of their founder”. The funeral momuments in the church include: Rossini, Dante, Machiavelli, Galileo and Michelangelo In the museum there are great paintings. One particularly memorable piece is 'Giudizio ...

... the Church of Santa Croce (Holy Cross) where we see the burial places of Michelangelo and Galileo. There is also the tomb of Machiavelli. There is also an empty tomb that is a memorial to the poet Dante. I really liked it here. When Michelangelo died in ...

... , the principal Franciscan church here. It is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, including Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli. There is a straw market and a flea market where bargains can be had … but not on the designer ...

... the dome of the cathedral (the Duomo); the view from the cupola was amazing; visited Santa Croce where Galileo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and about 300 of Florence's most influential citizens are buried, shopped on Ponte Veccio; climbed to the Piazzelle ...