What a fantastic day of art and culture in Florence, or Firenze as the locals call it! This city is totally over-crowded with tourists, but well worth the effort to shuffle past thousands of people all visiting Firenze for the same reason as us. Our motorcycle free day started out with a three hour tour of the city centre. This was interesting in parts, but our tour guide was boring for most of the time. There is only so much about the Medicis that I can take, and after a while - one building’s architecture was just like the next. Firenze is beautiful with the magnificent Duomo at its centre. We crossed over the Ponte Vecchio bridge to see the Royal Palace, and came back to look at the outside of the Uffizi Gallery (I thought our guide had said “Graffiti Museum”!) I didn’t realise that this is where some famous Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Raphael paintings are held. Our tour ended in the Accademia Gallery where Michelangelo’s statue of David is located. Nothing prepares you the magnificence of this statue - I along with everyone else, stood in awe looking up at one of the world’s most famous statues. Amazing!
For lunch we moved away from the tourist spots and enjoyed Coccoli and an aperol spritz at the La Petite restaurant. Later we went back to the Uffizi gallery and to our surprise the queues were quite short, so we went in to see Botticelli’s Birth of Venus painting, plus many more magnificent pieces of art. By the end of the day we had culture overload, but we were so thrilled to get to opportunity to see this art in just the one day we had here.
Some photos of the day:
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