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Oh Florence, where do I begin?\u00a0 We got up extra early this morning and took a private bus to the train station.\u00a0 Unlike other public faculties in Rome, bus drivers do not mess around if you are late!\u00a0 Luckily we were not.\u00a0 We then took a train to Florence.\u00a0 More on the train later on the way back, as I did not have a window seat here.\u00a0 One of the poorer experiences was at the station, where you had to pay a euro just to use the restroom.<\/p>\n

However, Florence, otherwise known as Firenze, was one of the best experience!\u00a0 It’s much more lively and modern than Rome, and it is the home of Early Renaissance.\u00a0 The churches are much more lavishly decorated to the point that they were nearly Gothic.\u00a0 There was one with a huge dome known as the Santa Maria del Fiore.\u00a0 Many artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Da Vinci intermingled here, sometimes even in competitions with one another.\u00a0 One notable contest involved Brunelleschi (rediscovered 3D perspective in 2D art), Ghiberti, and Donatello.\u00a0 Ghiberti won, and designed beautiful bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery, creating a relief of New Testament scenes on the north doors, and later Old Testament scenes on the east doors.<\/p>\n

\"Bronze<\/a>
Bronze Doors Ghiberti sculpted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My favorite thing to see in the main square is the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s main hall where major executions were held.\u00a0 Savonarola, who falsified prophecies, was burned in front of it and Fransisco De Pazi, who staged the assassination of the Medici family during mass, was hanged naked off of the Palazzo.\u00a0 Many statues also decorated the area, including a copy of Michelangelo’s David.<\/p>\n

\"Palazzo<\/a>
Palazzo Vecchio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Basilica of Santa Croce was where we went to after the Palazzo.\u00a0 We got to see the tomb of Michelangelo and Dante!\u00a0 Dante Alighieri is one of my favorite authors with Inferno, so it was so cool to see his tomb, even if he is not yet buried there.\u00a0 When we continued our walk after this we saw a church without its facade.\u00a0 I can’t believe how plain it looks without all the aesthetic details!<\/p>\n

\"Dante's<\/a>
Dante’s tomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Church<\/a>
Church without its facade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We then went to the leather market.\u00a0 Markets like these highlights the mass immigration coming into Italy, and many of those immigrants were of African or Middle Eastern descent.\u00a0 They all speak a lot of languages, which I suppose is necessary to make a living in a tourist-heavy area.\u00a0 The leather came from cows in Tuscany, and many of the food in Florence, as we found out during lunch, are Tuscan specialties.\u00a0 Also during lunch, we realized American 70’s music was not only popular in Rome.\u00a0 It is a very strange penchant of modern Italians.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time for my favorite part!\u00a0 The Medici Summer Palace, the Palazzo Pitti, was simply fantastic.\u00a0 Later used as a base for Napoleon, this palace has a lot of Baroque and Rococo influences.\u00a0 So many paintings lined the place, and Professor Hesting confessed that this was even better than the Uffizi!\u00a0 Many people can say they saw David, but we can say we saw Napoleon Bonaparte’s bathroom!<\/p>\n

\"Napoleon<\/a>
Napoleon Bonaparte’s bathroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had free time for ourselves after this, which was spent looking at very expensive stores that lined Firenze.\u00a0 There was one sweets store with a chocolate waterfall behind the counter!\u00a0 We had dinner once we got back together, then it was time to go back to good ole Rome.\u00a0 The train ride back was insightful.\u00a0 I noticed many small communities along the way that were fairly spaced out.\u00a0 I wonder what it must be like to live in such rural areas between the bustling cities of Rome and Florence, and what sort of lifestyle the inhabitants conform to.\u00a0 I wonder if there are schools in the small towns or if students need to take the train to another town.\u00a0 Once there was a shack in the middle of nowhere, and I pictured the thought of someone down on their luck having to live there, or perhaps choose that lifestyle as a form of religious devotion, or perhaps it was simply an abandoned stable…\u00a0 Sometimes the most thought-provoking things can be found in the minute details of this world.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a>
Chocolate waterfall at a Florence sweets shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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