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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 20, 2015 at 3:39 pm
You had me at "archaeology"
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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 21, 2015 at 2:54 am
Marvelously beautiful city. We were there for 2 days. Could have spent a month and not seen it all.
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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 21, 2015 at 2:59 am
Ah! Been there last fall, fantastic! Unfortunately, the Palace was closed so we could only admire it from the outside. But the Uffizi took up all the time anyways.
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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 21, 2015 at 3:58 am
Aww, and I thought this was going to be a thread about ancient spinach.
No matter. I've never made it to Florence. Milan, Rome, and (once) Taranto. Italian provincials are lovely, generous, warm hearted people. Romans could give Parisians lessons in pointless snobbery.
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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 21, 2015 at 10:28 am
(October 21, 2015 at 2:59 am)Alex K Wrote: Ah! Been there last fall, fantastic! Unfortunately, the Palace was closed so we could only admire it from the outside. But the Uffizi took up all the time anyways.
By the time I got to the Uffizi I was museumed out.
I don't actually remember a ton about Florence - I remember that my hotel room had a pretty view of the Duomo dome, I remember seeing San Lorenzo, one of my favorite interiors, the stairway of the Lorentian Library, to die for, I missed the Medici Chapel because there was a huge line, climbing the dome, and then walking around the shopping district eating gelato with the grad students I was palling around with.
Oh, and this dinner we had...
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RE: Florentine Archaeology
October 21, 2015 at 11:21 am
I always found that the "House Wine" in Italy was pretty good.
