Kurt and I dined at the outdoor restaurant looking at the
beautiful Santa Croce Basilica, a church and burial place of some of the most
illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli and Rossini. Cloud
cover was a blessing and the rain held off for another hour.
Historic Florence is small. We walked 10 minutes and were back to the
Duomo. We visited the Duomo museum with
a huge silver altarpiece of detailed and precise craftsmanship. We saw the Michelangelo pieta with the less
defined faces of Mary and Jesus. It was
very moving. As we finished in
Florence, the rain came. We had time to
slip inside a little, quiet church. It
was peaceful and good to be away from the ever present cigarette smoke.
We didn’t need to worry about rain
or sun. There were vendors everywhere
selling umbrellas or sun glasses and sun hats. We had one umbrella we shared. It was a wonderful day.
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