I've only shown a few of these pictures online before this, which is kind of a shame, because I really like the pictures... so I decided to post this memory post.
I visited Italy, Cattolica (a small coast town in the east coast of Italy below Venice) on August 2007. I was in the town very little because I had booked every trip possible during the week. I visited Firenze (Florence) for a day, Venezia (Venice) for another day, the Frazassi caves for half a day trip and small vinyard in Toscana the other half and spend a night in a beautiful homestead in Toscana, eating a festious Italian meal. Yum.
What a trip! ^___^
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| The view from the balcony of the hotelroom at night. Ocean and more ocean and warm, salty ocean wind. Ah! |
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| The beach close to the hotel (you can just see the hotel at the end of the beach). I only visited the beach when it was already closed because it was way too hot and crowded for my taste in the middle of the day. |
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| The Frazassi caves, HUGE caves with these stalagmites and stalactites in caves that went on for miles and miles and miles. ... 42 miles, if I remember correctly. |
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| The air was almost Nordicly cold in the caves, which I absolutely loved. I also seem to have no claustrophobia, because I loved those caves. ^__^ Then again, the caves were pretty big. The biggest one is so big you could fit the St. Peters basilica in it. It was HUGE! |
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| Firenze, at the Piazza Della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio with the Michelangelo's David's (replica) statue and Bartolomeo's Bandinelli statue. ♥ |
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| View from the Piazza Michelangelo on top of Firenze. The view was just incredible! You can see the famous Pridge Ponte Vecchio and the church Santa Maria Del Fiore. |
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| Another picture from the Piazza Della Signoria, one of the MANY statues on the square. The cote where most of the statues were, is called Loggia Dei Lanzi and this statue is Perseus by Cellini. I completely fell in love with this statue, so much so that I had to buy a small replica of it to take home. ♥ |
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| Galileo's tomb in the Santa Croce church. The whole church was full of these incredibly beautiful artistic tombs. Also Michelangelo and Dante are buried in the church but I didn't get photos of their tombs because taking photos was really difficult, flashes were not allowed inside the church. |
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| A close-up of the HUGE and magnificent church Santa Maria Del Fiore, one of the most known churches in the world. If you are interested of architecture, this building is one you should look into, it's history is so thrilling. |
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| Santa Maria Del Fiore from a little farther away. You can almost see half of it. It's so HUGE that you cannot get a picture of the whole church from this close. |
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| The cote Loggia Dei lanzi from the Piazza Della Signoria. You can just see Perseus on the left hand corner and the many other wonderful statues there were... and all the people. There was no place in Firenze where there would not have been a huge crowd. =D |
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| A close up of one of the statues in Loggia Dei lanzi. "Hercules fighting the centaur Nessus" by the sculptor Giambologna. |
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| View to the beauuutiful hills of Toscana. We drove hours along roads in this view. Unfortunately I have a really bad travel sickness so I wasn't really enjoying the trip in a car. XD |
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| The view to the hills at the village where the Italian meal was served. It was just so breathtakingly beautiful. ♥ |
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| City of dreams. Venice. This is a view to the famous Rialto bridge. The whole immensely huge bridge is full of little stores. |
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| View to the city itself from the canal that leads to the city. We arrived there with a tourist boat (the trip was woooonderful!). The big building in the middle is the doge's palace. |
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| A square where the gondola's takes on passengers. There was a gondolier singing here and it led people to this place. It was almost magical, like a jump to the past. |
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| One of the many many many canals in the city. It was so beautiful I took several hundred pictures just like this one. |
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| And another canal and another condola. The whole city of Venice is set on water, on top of this marshland and has no roads, instead there are these canals that you can travel on in the condolas, or by the small walkways that crisscross the city with little bridges over the canals. ♥ |
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| View from the Rialto bridge, to the "main canal" of the city. This was the place where in ancient times there goods were brought into the city. |
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| The huge and beautiful church of San Marco at the San Marco square in Venice centrum next to the doge's palace. |
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| The famous bridge of sighs. The building here used to be a prison, where the prisoners were sentenced to live for the rest of their lives. When they were walked into the building, people could hear their sighs of desperation from the bridge, that is how it got it's name. |
