Category: monuments

  • Monteriggioni, a defensive outpost of medieval Sienna

    Monteriggioni, a defensive outpost of medieval Sienna

    This is the second of a series of three posts on the small villages we visited in Tuscany, Italy. The first post about Castellina in Chianti is here. We took a 2-week long driving tour from Lausanne, Switzerland to Tuscany by way of Turin (Torino), the Italian Riviera (Genoa, Cinque Terre), and Florence. Before we…

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  • Roaming around Tuscany – Castellina In Chianti

    Roaming around Tuscany – Castellina In Chianti

    This is the first of a new series of three posts on the small villages we visited in Tuscany, Italy. We took a 2-week long driving tour from Lausanne, Switzerland to Tuscany by way of Turin (Torino), the Italian Riviera (Genoa, Cinque Terre), and Florence. Before we turned around, we explored several Tuscan villages. If…

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  • The Piazzas of Florence, Part 2 of 2

    The Piazzas of Florence, Part 2 of 2

    We are concluding this long series of posts on Florence with more photos of the public squares or plaza … Part 1 is here. If you are just joining us, you can see some highlights here: il Duomo, David by Michelangelo, Birth of Venus by Botticelli, Ponte Vecchio. If you like to join us on…

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  • The Piazzas of Florence, Part 1 of 2

    The Piazzas of Florence, Part 1 of 2

    To give a sense of what the city of Florence looks like, we have gathered here a selection of snapshots of the many piazzas of the city. Florence has a compact city center (centro storico) of medieval origin made up of a network of piazza (plazas or squares) which are connected by via (streets). Almost…

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  • Piazza della Signoria, Florence

    Piazza della Signoria, Florence

    Piazza della Signoria is in the center of Florence, and is considered the most important piazza for citizens and visitors of the city. We walked past this piazza almost every day while we explore the city. If you have just started here on our blog, this is a post in a series which tracks our…

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  • Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)

    Road Trip from Lausanne to Tuscany – First stop: Turin (Torino)

    After the pandemic faded in Europe, we took a road trip from Lausanne (in Switzerland, where we lived) to Tuscany. The 2-week long round trip took us across the Alps, south to the Mediterranean Sea where we made stops along the Ligurian coast before heading inland towards Tuscany. The towns where we stayed overnight were…

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