Pisa today!
Today we woke up ready to head to Pisa. We checked out of our hostel and headed for the train station which was nearby and boarded a train around 8:30AM. Pisa is actually a pretty small city, only a 30 min walk to the Piazza Duomo where the tower, duomo, and a bevy of other landmarks dot the soft soil that evidently produces its tilt.
This thing looks like it could fall over if you blow on it! We got some great pictures, attended mass in the duomo (which had awesome frescoes and paintings), and visited the baptistry and Caposante, which is an ancient Roman burial ground. There was a lot of devastation left after the bombing of WW2. Many frescoes were destroyed, but it is still considered a prominent artistic destination in Pisa. After that, we headed back through town, grabbed some gilato, and boarded a train back to Florence.
We didn't have enough time to visit Santa Maria Novella in Florence, so we visited it before it closed at 5PM. Being just across the street in Florence from the train station, it was an easy landmark to hit. They had some very nice tombs in there of the Medici family as well as wonderful frescoes by Fernando Lippi. There is also a famous frescoe claimed to be the first to experiment with 3D aspects of depth. It looks like this:
*Image coming soon*
Nice quick stop after that at McDonalds for dinner before heading back to Orvieto. I miss ice and ketchup! American cheese actually sounds good as well. Fries taste the same luckily. What an exhausting 3 days, great things seen and many streets conquered.
Class tomorrow....boo!
This thing looks like it could fall over if you blow on it! We got some great pictures, attended mass in the duomo (which had awesome frescoes and paintings), and visited the baptistry and Caposante, which is an ancient Roman burial ground. There was a lot of devastation left after the bombing of WW2. Many frescoes were destroyed, but it is still considered a prominent artistic destination in Pisa. After that, we headed back through town, grabbed some gilato, and boarded a train back to Florence.
We didn't have enough time to visit Santa Maria Novella in Florence, so we visited it before it closed at 5PM. Being just across the street in Florence from the train station, it was an easy landmark to hit. They had some very nice tombs in there of the Medici family as well as wonderful frescoes by Fernando Lippi. There is also a famous frescoe claimed to be the first to experiment with 3D aspects of depth. It looks like this:
*Image coming soon*
Nice quick stop after that at McDonalds for dinner before heading back to Orvieto. I miss ice and ketchup! American cheese actually sounds good as well. Fries taste the same luckily. What an exhausting 3 days, great things seen and many streets conquered.
Class tomorrow....boo!
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