Firenze

We've done a lot of stuff in the last two days. Unfortunately, the Accademia Museum and the Uffizi Museum didn't allow any pictures. You'll have to trust us that everything in those two museums is worth seeing. After seeing those two museums Kate and I had a great dinner. The next day we decided to do a small view tour of Florence including going to the top of the Domo! Here are some pictures we took over the last two days:

Cool fountain in front of the Uffizi Museum.

This sculpture is called the 'Rape of the Sabine Women'.   The sculpture is on a perfect axis.  You can walk around it and allways feel the same balence in it.

Davinci!!!

We started our walk the next day across the Ponte Vecchio bridge.

Lots of people and jewelry stores.  We walked through the crowds and headed toward the old Firenze city walls.

Here's the old south entrance to the city.  We were happy to find out that we were alone in exploring this section of the walls.

Kate in some old olive groves next to the wall.  Again, no other people were around!!!  From here we headed to Michelangelo Plaza.

The steps up to the plaza. The steps are actually set up to perform the stations of the cross. The bottom is the first station and there's a church at the top where it ends. The metaphor is pretty easy to get here.

View of the Domo from the top.

Bronze David. 

Kate heading up the passage way.
From here we headed to the Domo to go to the top.

It's not that far up...

We made it!!!

What a view!!!

Time to go back down.

All in all it was another couple of great days in Florence. We are enjoying the food and wine. We plan to do a specific food and wine post soon. We have enough pictures and information to share now. Hope everyone’s ok back in the States. Arrivederci!