From the diary of Echino. Guess which city I was ...
Let's go back to playing with city children. This time I am talking about a wonderful Italian city that was in the past also the capital of Italy. Have you already guessed?? I can not believe ... Well, take a look at the photos, I think it's worth it.
Queued to visit the Uffizi there are only hundreds of people, but also the birds, I do not think they are interested in Botticelli, Michelangelo, Giotto, da Vinci, I think are more interested in the crumbs that fall to the tourists.
You should not have time to get bored visiting this city, but if you happen to join the children playing football on the banks of the Arno.
Teatro del Sale is no ordinary theater, a restaurant is quite nice. To eat there you must be a member and pay a € 10 card. and then you book. It 'definitely a dinner theater, Fabio Picchi, chef with a white beard and mustache often seen on TV, appears at the window of his kitchen to view and announces in a loud voice ranges. If the food remains in danger of being scolded, as the mother at home, but the really nice thing is that we do not scold children, but adults, even those separate. Eh, eh! A hoot! The food is good, really. One advice, the courses are many, not the beginning because abbuffatevi then there is no place for meat and dessert. After dinner, it clears faster, you take away the dishes and turn their chairs to the stage where he starts the show that lasts 45 min.
's a nice place for us kids!
This photo is of the Old Palace. The town hall of this city, is also within assolutissimamente to visit in the first place because they let you take pictures - as the museum is FORBIDDEN - without flash of course, to avoid damaging frescoes and paintings, but at least you can do. And why for us little guys is the Museum of the boys with many laboratories and could you also happen to talk to the person in Vasari, architect, painter, art critic and so on and so forth, or the Duke Cosimo I. Well, maybe not quite the originals because they have lived in 1500! :-D
Yes, I know I'm not really typical of this city, but these were so beautiful and colorful ice cream that I wanted to photograph them. There is also a delicious wafer biscuits you preparing for the ice cream and you can eat: with chocolate, jam or ice cream. SLURP! They have only one defect is 5 €. one, then my appeal goes to the Lords of traders: okay that tourists should be plucked like a chicken, but do not overdo it! :-)
The following is a Florentine, a T-Bone who is eating it all blows up. We were at the restaurant of the Latins because everyone says it's typical and it's worth it. Shall I tell you the truth? I do not particularly like, it seemed more an assembly of steak: a customer out in the other. I think there is better in this beautiful city.
A visit off the beaten tourist track, the library deserves Marucelliana, let children bring from your parents because it is Stradella. Apart from the fact that is ancient and you breathe the dust of a thousand years, but take a stroll in there and look at the ancient tomes or the very old doors round is really nice. You do not need more than 5 or 10 minutes and I think it is really worth.
The Duomo or Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is a must-visit, with its beautiful dome. It 's all colored with beautiful white marble, green and red, Carrara, Prato and Maremma. No, we're in Milan, and yes, of course, this is also a cathedral, but without needles and therefore not is Milan. They started building in the thirteenth century. and was finally completed only in the nineteenth century. Do you realize what an enormous construction site has been? Maybe people do not get angry much of the past for work in progress. :-D
to climb the dome, do some 'training because there are 463 steps.
No, not the tower Pisa. Yes, it seems that hangs, but it's just the idea that gives this picture. This is the Campanile of Giotto. It bear his name because he died a few years after receiving the task of designing and having managed to build only the first piece below, I really have not understood. Perhaps because Giotto Giotto? Here too, it takes training to climb the steps are 414. I counted them one by one.
It 's a city full of bridges crossed by the river Arno. What? You have not yet guessed the name of the city. But by ... I kidding. Do not believe it!
This is a beautiful fountain, is called source or Piazza del Nettuno and was designed by Bartolomeo Ammannati. Well of course with a a name like that could only be good at school and in life.
A view of the dome. No, not Rome, the Pope because I have not seen around the city, so it can not be Rome, even if there is a dome.
Among the many bridges that there Ponte Vecchio is full of people, we all want to see it really is a nice bridge. There are many jewelry stores, to tell the truth to me I care very little gold, but I liked the bridge the same.
you know what the rustication? Go find on the internet, while I'll show you in the picture below.
The facade of the Duomo. Do not miss the Baptistery, is right there in front of the Duomo, is octagonal and has three beautiful bronze doors and a wonderful coverage pyramid.
Michelozzo In the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio, there are columns decorated with stucco work by Vasari. Yes, in short, is a bit 'different from the courtyard of my house, maybe this is why the mother did not allow me to play hide and seek here!
Inside Palazzo Vecchio bring a headrest so you stay for most of the time to head up like chickens when they drink. Well, just look up 'that's nice on the ceiling ...
But the room Maps is what I liked most. In here you study the geography and not too happy to even a bit boring '. And do not tell anyone, but behind one of these cards there is a secret passage where you can enter. That cool!
If you want to go to sleep in a bed and breakfast, I recommend that Mr. Walter, a short walk from the Duomo, costs 65 € per night for 2 persons and the morning breakfast in your room you the door for his lady wife. It's called Panarea and if you book directly from him to avoid paying the 5 € Agency.
This is the place where they filmed the scene in the movie dell'accoltellamento Room with a View. There is also the Hospital of the Innocents and a church that does not seem much from the outside but the interior is very nice.
Ah, if you get in the car, I recommend not parked in front of Palazzo Pitti, the firemen are tired to much and this is what happens to your car. :-D
Now I want to open a small parenthesis on padlocks. I do not know if Moccia has taken inspiration from those already there were around or if this trend is born after the book Three Steps Over Heaven, but I can say that is nonsense pazzeschissima?? Now, the monument to Cellini does not seem the appropriate place where he vows eternal love and on which attack a stupid lock. I say to you, kids that I hope will be a bit 'smarter than lovers of today: a love that lasts no more if you attach padlocks everywhere, serves only to make a messy city that does not deserve to be. And if you are so stupid to attack them in dangerous places like this down here, then perhaps it is better to do boyfriend in a hurry to change.
goldsmiths' shops on the Ponte Vecchio for me are almost more beautiful when they are closed, doors that look wonderful.
You guessed it true the mysterious city? Write the name from me that I forgot, I only remember that begins with F.
Unfortunately, on a weekend I could not see more, but we'll be back for sure.
