HARMONYZE: FLORENCE, the city of magic

Hello everyone!

How are you? I'm at home now and I'm a bit sad because my trip is ended too soon :(

I'm happy anyway: these days have been very intense, I have seen a lot of monuments, portraits, sculptures and now it seems that my eyes have been fulfilled with art and magic.

I have already written about my first day, so now I'm going to describe the rest of my beautiful trip.

On August 12th, I woke up at 8.30 am, I had breakfast and then I left the hotel to start the real adventure: I had planned to see a lot of things on that day and, luckily, at the end I saw them all. In the morning, I visited the Brancacci's Chapel with the Masaccio's frescoes "Expulsion Of Adam and Eve from Eden" and the Masolino one "Temptation of Adam".

(Masaccio's Expulsion of Adam and Eve)

Then I kept on walking and I reached Pitti's Palace with the astonishing Boboli's Gardens (I also met a cat wondering around the tree-lined roads): there were also an exhibition of some ancient objects made with porcelain and some others made with lapis lazuli.

(Pitti's Palace)

I had lunch and in the afternoon I visited the Brunelleschi's Dome

the Giotto's Bell Tower

the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

and the Battistero (I bought an ice cream: in general, I climbed a number of steps not far from a thousand, so I deserved a dessert).
Before dinner, I also had enough time to visit the Arnolfo's Tower and the museum of Palazzo Vecchio (this museum made me think back to the time when I went to London for the first time: I had the same sense of wonder which kept me speechless).

On the following day I went to the Medici's Chapel, which has some Michelangelo's sculptures, and to the Gallery of the Academy (where you can find the famous David of Michelangelo).

I visited the Museum of Anthropology and I also reached the Dante Alighieri's house, but I didn't enter in it.

Then it was the time of shopping (I bought just a pair of shoes); I also found the Hard Rock Café, where I took a cup of tea, and I reached the San Lorenzo's Market (with tons of leather bags, leather wallet, leather rucksacks, leather jackets...).

On August 14th I came back home.

In only few days, I managed to see a lot of important places: I enjoyed a full experience, absorbed in a city full to the brim with culture.

Walking inside Pitti's Palace and Palazzo Vecchio you can imagine how it would be to live surrounded by frescoes, precious objects and famous artists.

Climbing the Brunelleschi's Dome, instead, you can understand the genius of Brunelleschi and the hard work behind the construction of such a masterpiece of architecture and engineering, in addition to the breath-taking view of Florence.

Crossing the Boboli's Gardens you can feel a sense of peace, especially if you can arrive in its higher part and you can look at all the trees and the hills around it.

I hope to come back soon, because I would like to see a lot of other places, like Uffizi's Gallery, the Michelangelo's House, Santa Croce...

I put here some other photos ^^