Category: monuments
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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
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 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)
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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Kasbah at Telouet, Home of the Pasha of Marrakech
On our way to Essaouira from Ouarzazate, we took a detour on P1506 to see Telouet Kasbah, but passing Ait Benhaddou (a United Nations Word Heritage site which regrettably we did not stop to explore). To accompany your reading, highly recommended is Stephen Micus’s quiet contemplative Nomad Songs published by ECM. We arrived at Telouet…
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Volubilis, an archaeological gem
While we were staying in Fes, we took a day trip to Meknes and Volubilis. Meknes, one of the imperial cities of old Morocco, did not make much of an impression on us but Volubilis is a gem. First, let’s put on some Morocco traditional music made with an Oud – a type of lute.…