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The Rape of the Sabine Women |
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In the Loggia dei Lanzi in Piazza della Signoria. |
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Benvenuto Cellini's statue of Perseus |
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Yet another amazing candy store on Via Calimala near the Old Market |
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The Ponte Vecchio over the Arno River |
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Blurry shot of the fountain just inside the courtyard of the Pitti Palace |
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Clearer image of same fountain featuring a swimming cherub |
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Overlooking Florence inside the Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Garden) |
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Huge fountain just outside the Pitti Palace |
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Looking into the Boboli Gardens from the Pitti Palace |
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Looking back towards Florence halfway up the Gardens |
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Looking back towards Florence at the top of the Gardens |
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Classic Tuscan view out the back of the Gardens |
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Pitti Palace Below with Florence as a backdrop |
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More the Florence panorama |
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The Fountain, at the back of the Pitti Palace near the exit below the Boboli Gardens |
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It is traditionally known as the Bacchino (Little Bacchus) though the actual mythological reference is more probably to the satyr Silenus. This chubby little satyr astride a particularly unhappy tortoise was modeled after Cosimo I's favorite dwarf and court jester, Pietro Barbino (il Morgante). |
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Weird sort of winged monkey fountain by Pietro Tacca in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata |
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Santa Croce - burial place of the Florentine greats |
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Look at the narrow streets and sidewalks |
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Looking down into the valley behind Fiesole
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Tuscany is still green. |
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Roman bath archway framing Fiesole Campanile
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Playing spot the lizard |
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This site (and others) around Italy are infested with little green lizards. |
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Beware of Falling Sign |
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This one is at the pools in the bath |
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2000 seat Roman Theatre at Fiesole |
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This place had a wonderful museum that showed the Etruscan, Roman and Lombard settlementson the site. |
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Villa "La Petraia" |
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Formerly a castle of the Brunelleschi family, in 1575 it passed to Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici it houses a series of frescoes by Volterrano depicting the pomp of the house of Medici. |
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The View from the Garden |
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The building overlooks an Italian-style garden laid out by Tribolo, who also designed the famous fountain of "Fiorenza emerging from the water" sculptured by Giambologna. Nurseries, hothouses and basins are scattered throughout the "terraces", with their geometrically patterned boxwood hedges. |
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Another Panorama of Florence |
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