Il fuoco di Firenze

I will concede – Firenze is a way more cool word than the English plain old “Florence.” And furthermore, Florence was an unbelievably amazing city. I hadn’t anticipated anything other than love for it, given all that I knew about its history, architecture and art art art – many of my friends who had been to Italy told me it was their favorite Italy destination.

As expected, I took many photos. So, I’ll chunk it out in two or three posts perhaps. Though, some of what I shot is already in my Street Art and More Street Art (Clet Abraham art) posts. So pop over to those as well for some Firenze love 🙂

For this round, I’ll just dare you to not jump on the first plane out, with a look at my favorite highlights.

 

Lovely Ponte Vecchio

Bargello. 2 Lions, 15th century

Many a street view of the eclectic skyline and Duomo.

Pappardelle with wild boar.

Duomo at night, the view from our hotel tower (formerly a castle!)

“Truth for Giulio Regeni”, a PhD Italian Cambridge student murdered in Egypt.

Duomo

Sunset view, Arno River, Ponte Vecchio. vantage point

Florence mercato centrale, spaghetti with truffles for lunch

Another pretty Duomo view

Ponte Vecchio reflection, Arno river

Florence view from hotel/castle tower

Restoring the Bargello ceiling. What a cool therapeutic job to have!

Restoring the Bargello interior ceiling

Duomo view

The best tiramisu we had, next to our friend Marco’s 🙂

Duomo view

Lovely pastries

Street art

Bargello courtyard. Loved this space. Dates back to the 1200’s, and was a prison in the 18th century.

Fancy Pants Vespas

Michelangelo’s David – as much as it’s pretty much one of THE main tourist attractions – was truly just stunningly beautiful artwork.  I was teary eyed upon first seeing him.

 

Lovely.

David. All 17 feet of him.

Beautiful bum. Seriously.

Really just amazing detail. I have zero sculpting ability, and can’t say much more than that!

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