Our secondi day in Firenza required some adept adjustment of the agenda, as our morning scheduled tour of the Doumo Tower, a pretty good stair climb by the way, guide never showed. So we shopped! The leather goods here are well renowned for craftsmanship or is that craftpersonship? Any how the ladies got these fantastic gloves, which will contrasts nicely to the Northface utilitarian types mostly seen in our chilly days.
Gelato is also always welcomed between audio corny jokes on Rick Steves walk around Firenza tour.
The Duomo was to be one of the largest churches in Christendom and the scale of the buildings reflected the region’s status, as a flourishing center of the Renaissance, both artistically, commercially and militarily.
Inside the Duomo Cathedral
In the afternoon we went to the interestingly named Museum of Science, which is actually the home of Michelangelo’s masterpiece David, as well as many more of his famous works and he was prolific indeed.
Michaelangelo made a series of statues called The Prisoners, the concept was to render images still entrapped in the stone, so to some extent it looks unfinished but they are actually completed.
This one was very moving statue of Mary grieving as she holds her son’s lifeless body.
The powerful Medici family were major benefactors for the artists. He is pictured here second from the left with a natty yellow bowtie.
We ended our tourist day being guided through the town accompanied by Rick Steves and his audio tour. The river Arno is spanned by a commercial bridge Ponte Vecchio.
Oh one more picture of the ceiling at the Museum of Science, too good to pass up posting.
Oh Oh one more thing to post the wonderful land of Gelato no relation to Geppetto.
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