Michael Angelo

... (that should look very familiar to anyone who read the Rila Monastery entry). This seems to be a favoured image of St Michael for hundreds of kilometres around and I was surprised to find out that it was actually him. After descending past ...

... little Italian restaurant, where I had the best pesto sauce that I have ever tasted!  This may have been because this restaurant also played Michael Buble’s “Crazy Love” CD in the background, but I really can’t tell for ...

... . This was around the time of A.D. 139. Then the name was changed after Pope Gregory 'saw the Archangel Michael' - then it was renamed Castel Sant'Angelo and got a new statue on top. It is really an interesting building. The bridge is decorated with ...

... mais bien sur les portables ne marchent pas a l'aeroport. Montons dans le premier shuttle, direction l'agence afin de leur dire que je dors a Michael Angelo, Ok pas de soucis, ils nous disent que le vol sera vers 10h et qu'il faut les appeler vers 7h pour ...

... we did not get a personal invitation from the Pope, we still had a lot of fun. We saw sculptures and paintings by Michael Angelo, Rafael, Bernini and many other famous artists. Some the pieces of art we observed were the paintings on the walls and ...

... ladies. He was most informative and very entertaining. I was the only one in the group who answered the question about Michael Angelo's picture of Adam. 'What anatomical error did Michael Angelo make?" He had a belly button.   The vatican ...

... and see Medici tombs by Michael Angelo.  Then we visit the Basilica di San Lorenzo and see the libraries designed by Michael Angelo.  The basilica also had an art exhibit of books describing mythical animals written in the early 1500s.  ...

... disappointed in that the Sistine Chapel, was a humane Zoo. However we did get plenty of time to view the work of Michael Angelo. The other outstanding feature was the Hall of Maps which would be well over 100 meters long. Spent yesterday morning at the ...

... we were in Florence. We then went grocery shopping, had a siesta, and ventured back up to see the view of Florence from Michael Angelo's staircase at night. That night we met an American Mexican friend from Cali, named Fernando who went with us to this ...

... stuff in our room and began exploring!! We walked along the Fume Almo River that runs along the whole city all the way to Michael Angelo's staircase which led us up to the most incredible view of the city! Jess and I decided this was our proposal spot so ...

... taken, but I can tell you this... its breath-taking... The art on the ceiling and the side walls look absolutely surreal! The men Michael Angelo painted look like 3D figures, ready to pop out of the walls and share with you the story of their particular ...

... started to cry.  It was amazing and even though I didn't get any pics, I will never forget what I saw.  You see Michael Angelo's artwork of the chapple in pictures and on tv, but until you see it in person you just don't understand how amazingly ...

... in San Crisofano called Camping Internazionale. It is quite pretty. We did a walking tour around Florence, Santa Croce, Tombs of Michael Angelo, Galileo and Memorails to Michavell and Leonard Di Vinci. Then it was time to hit the streets for some ...

... a ton, and we wanted to move through relatively quickly. Probably an hour and a bit later we walked into the Sistine chapel and saw Michael Angelo's famous painting on the ceiling of the chapel. It was hard to be in awe when we have seen so many amazing ...

... gal...too visual overload for me, but i will say that the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museum was pretty cool.  Michael Angelo painted 9 scenes across the entire span of the the ceiling in that room.  He really was an amazing artist.  ...

... of all of the queues but also explained many of the things within the Basilica which we would never have known otherwise. We saw Michael Angelo’s sculpture; he was 21 when created it out of marble and signed Mary’s chest to prove it (it is ...