{"id":683,"date":"2012-10-16T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:52:54","slug":"day-5-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/2012\/10\/16\/day-5-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderOur first port of call is Livorno. The cruise offered several opportunities to explore various Tuscan towns such as Pisa, Lucca and Siena, but for us, it was a no-brainer. We signed up for the bus ride to Florence, an hour and a half inland. We only had five hours of free time to wander Florence before we had to get back on the bus, but there was no way I was going to miss the opportunity to introduce my husband to the city where I lived for my junior year. Florence is a beautiful dreamworld, and it was simply mind-blowing to take this five-hour journey to my past. This is my handsome husband in front of il Duomo, Santa Maria del Fiore, one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world.<\/p>\n

Brian was not completely unfamiliar with Florence – three of my paintings in our house are of three of my favorite things to see in Florence, including one that we saw a copy of in Williamstown, MA (see photo). Plus, we had been to an exhibit on the Gates of Paradise in NYC a few years ago, so he had become familiar with those gorgeous gilded panels before seeing them in person.<\/p>\n

We had an incredible lunch before making a dangerous but inevitable venture in the nearby\u00a0 mercato nuovo. Can’t go to Florence without buying leather, so we did.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderWe wandered and explored some more, then all too soon, it was time to go. I knew it would be hard to leave, but it was harder than I thought. Fortunately, our tour guide read my mind, and added a little extra treat to our visit. We got back on the bus, then drove up a nearby hill to Piazzale Michelangelo – the best place to get an incredible view of the whole city, and especially its spectacular cathedral. Not enough time for us to go up there on our own, although I had really wanted to, but I was extremely happy that the bus took us up there on our way our of town.<\/p>\n

We got back on the boat just in time to enjoy a spectacular sunset before dinner.<\/p>\n

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Our first port of call is Livorno. The cruise offered several opportunities to explore various Tuscan towns such as Pisa, Lucca and Siena, but for us, it was a no-brainer. We signed up for the bus ride to Florence, an hour and a half inland. We only had five hours of free time to wander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,67],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-churches","category-italy","tag-honeymoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}