Frigid Morning in Florence

Florence is unspeakably beautiful. A lovely bus ride from Livorno to Florence took us through a most beautiful part of Tuscany. I was surprised that the ancestral villages of Vinci, and that of the Bonaparte family are less than five miles apart. From a point overlooking Florence we saw the old city square, the Church of Santa Maria della Fiore, and the Church of Santa Croce all in one view. I was particularly impressed that this last church contains the graves of both Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.Read more