Florence Rick Steve tour

This morning we drove from Bologna to Florence, checked into our hotel and went on a Rick Steve audio tour of the highlights of the center.

We admired a famous Florence cathedral with its huge magical marble facade and an enormous dome. We didn’t go inside the cathedral, but we went inside the church Orsanmichele and admired its outside statues, then walked to the Vecchio Palace and saw a a copy of famous Michelangelo David and other amazing sculptures inside a loggia especially built for displaying these statues. We then walked across the river on the famous Vecchio bridge, which is lined with the jewelry shops. Interestingly, in one of the window displays I noticed famous Russian anti-sglazit dulya and learned that these were popular good luck charms called figa (another name in Russian as well!) in Italy in the 1950s.Read more