Flo

View from Vanessa's balcony. Close up the Duomo can be seen - now that it has been cleaned - as a monument to hard work.

The bars in this grate, outside the Ospidale deli Innocenti, are spaced far enough apart to permit passage of a baby but not an infant. Until about 1875 mothers unable to care for their child could leave it here for the nuns to look after.Read more