Day Three in Florence

Day three was filled with more art, churches, and palaces. We started at the Museo Bagello, toured just the inside of the Duomo, over to the market for lunch, on to Santa Croce, and then to one of my favourite places, the Palazzo Vecchio for their map room.

It is hard to put into words how beautiful and ornate each of these places is. Just take a look at the pictures… The map room was particularly interesting. It seems that the sentiment was that those who can map the world, control the world. They had a fairly inaccurate map of the new world with the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, and Texas. Florida was shrunk and Cuba looked huge. I liked that.Read more