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CIAO ADRIANO
8 DAYS IN TUSCANY AND UMBRIA THE 2007 DOM PARADOX A TOUR FOR NICK (DOM P'S SON) AND JACUI October / November 2007
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DAY EIGHT
Wednesday 7 November - Florence North and South
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The Florence meat and produce markets.
San Marco – Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455 (60)) and Fra Bartolomeo (1473 - 1517 (43)) paintings and frescos, frescoed Friars’ Cells (especially the Annunciation in Cell 3). Portrait of Giralomo Savanorola ((1452-1598 (46)) who was a friar then Prior here for over a decade, and for a short time the ruler of Florence, before being executed by hanging then burning in the Piazza della Signora, Florence, on 23 May 1498 as a fitting encore to his earlier bonfire of the vanities in the same place. Michelozzo’s (1396 - 1472 (76)) beautiful slender columned library (Europe’s first public library). And in the refectory / bookshop a large Last Supper fresco by "the Last Supper painter" Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - 1494 (45)).
Piazza della SS Annunziata and the façade of the Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446 (69)) architected Spedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) – the first distinctively Renaissance façade and building. Brunelleschi was the architect of the dome of Florence's Duomo - built without internal support, and still the largest masonry dome in existence.
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (originally by Michelozzo and sadly closed on Wednesdays)
Lunch at Trattoria Mario.
Santa Maria Novella (Dominican). Masaccio’s (1400 - 1428 (28)) groundbreaking "Trinita" fresco, now over 600 years' old. Huge fresco cycles in the east end of the church by Giotto, Ghirlandaio and others - also an Annunciation. The convent buildings with the huge convent chapter house (Eleanor of Toledo's "Spanish Chapel") but the best part out of bounds because the Carabiniere "own" it. Sadly, the façade, the only worthwhile facade of the four major Florence churches, is still under scaffolding.
San Miniato church and sweeping views of Florence in the late afternoon sun.
A Chianti sunset to remember.
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The "towers" from L to R: Palazzo Vecchio, San Lorenzo, Baptistery, Giotto's Duomo Campanile, Badia Fiorentina, Bargello, Brunelleschi's Domo Dome.
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The "towers" from L to R: San Lorenzo, Baptistery, Giotto's Duomo Campanile, Badia Fiorentina, Bargello, Brunelleschi's Domo Dome.
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Castellina is located near the "i" of "Chianti"
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