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| We arrived in Milan on a very cold November morning. This is La Duomo in the main piazza, city centre. Every steeple has a "much larger than life" statue perched on top. Note the gold embossed Virgin Mary in the upper right corner. | The street outside our Milan hotel, day one | We didn't stay in Milan for long, too cold! The EuroRail train to Florence was a treat and fast! | |
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| Next stop Florence and of course the incomparable "David" in the Gallery of Accademia. The second pic gives you some idea of the size of this piece. The detail is truly amazing. | Gallery after gallery FULL of wonderful art works | ||
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| Lots and lots of churches with fabulous art works, paintings, embroideries and sculpture. | |||
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| Street mime. We saw a lot of them in Florence | Fine art works basically littering the streets |
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| These are outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, considered one of the finest art galleries in the world. Many of these are replicas but that certainly takes nothing away from them as they seem, at least to my untrained eye, to be as well done as the originals, many of which we saw. | The Ponte Vecchio, a famous bridge in Florence. Very expensive shops (mostly jewelry) from end to end | ||
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| Inside the Uffizi Gallery | Another view of the Ponte Vecchio, from the Uffizi |
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| The tourist police | Bikes & scooters everywhere! |
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| Typical street market | Pitti Palace, Florence | Boboli Gardens, Pitti Palace | Modern sculpture, brass! |
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| I can still hear dogs barking | Ceiling frescoe, Pitti Palace | Siena - we stayed in a convent. Clean, pleasant, inexpensive | |
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