It's dreadful to drive around the town, I had a nightmare with malfunction GPS and drove right across piazza pitti and made 3-point-turns in narrow lanes with Volvo XC60 full-size car, almost hit-n-kill several pedestrians [ :) not really ]in that crazy night.
In florence, or maybe just like in every other old Europe city, every route needs to be planned carefully to avoid Limited Traffic Access Zone (ZTL). Painful lesson to learn from.
However travel on foot is much easy and pleasant!
The David (the original is in the Galleria dell'Accademia) by Michelangelo
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
Giambologna(1579–1583) 's Rape of the Sabines
The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation
The Medici lions are two lion sculptures placed around 1600[1] at the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, and since 1789 displayed at the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The sculptures depict standing male lions with a sphere under one claw, looking to the side. The Medici lions have also been copied, or strongly inspired new sculptures, in many other locations.
Wives are happily shopping while husbands are feeling a little bored
Galleria degli Uffizi, also known as the Uffizi Gallery, Italy's top art museum
Inside Palazzo Vecchio
Inside Palazzo Vecchio
Inside Palazzo Vecchio
Inside Uffizi Gallery , just before "No Photo"
The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River.
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