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    Florence in Two Days
    Florence in Two Days
    Florence in Two Days
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    Florence in Two Days

    By Enrico Massetti

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    This guide covers a short two-days visit to Florence, Italy.

    There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions for you to use during your visit.

    The guide is ideal for use on your smart phone or your tablet, it contain active links to the web sites of train and air travel companies, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets.

    It has also listing of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at walking distance from the location where lunch or dinner are planned.

    There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEnrico Massetti
    Release dateSep 28, 2014
    ISBN9781312543218
    Florence in Two Days
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    Enrico Massetti

    Enrico Massetti nació en Milán, Italia, donde vivió durante más de 30 años, visitando innumerables destinos turísticos, desde las montañas de los Alpes hasta el mar de Sicilia. Ahora vive en Washington, Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, visita regularmente su ciudad natal y disfruta recorriendo todos los lugares de su país, especialmente aquellos a los que puede llegar en transporte público. Puede contactar con Enrico en enrico@italian-visits.com.

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      Florence in Two Days - Enrico Massetti

      Florence in Two Days

      Enrico Massetti

      Florence in Two Days

      Enrico Massetti

      Copyright Enrico Massetti 2014

      Published by Enrico Massetti at Smashwords

      All Rights Reserved

      ISBN: 978-1-312-54321-8

      second edition

      Introduction.

      Florence is the cultural capital of Europe since 1400, when the Europe's towns were rural and crude, while Florence practiced the art of civilized living. Today Florence is geographically small, but culturally rich, with more artistic masterpieces per square mile than any other place on earth.

      Florence is located in Northern Italy, conveniently reachable from Rome, Venice and Milan.

      Map of Florence

      The center of Florence is small and compact, and can very easily be covered on foot.

      Plenty of things to do before going.

      These are the few things you have to do before to make this visit possible:

      Make Accademia reservations for mid-morningof the second day, you can do it online at http://www.uffizi.com/accademia-gallery-florence.asp. The Accademia is a must-see, although it shouldn't take more than an hour of your precious time. Michaelangelo's David is worth the admission and you can take as little as 30 seconds of looking or 30 minutes of studying the sculpture. The other pieces in the museum are nice, particularly the other Michaelangelo sculptures.

      Make you hotel reservations

      Make your train and/or air reservation

      Unfortunately to visit the Galleria degli Uffizi you would need to spend a lot of time waiting in line, even if you make an advance reservation you still would have to wait for hours. It has therefore not been included in this itinerary.

      The morning of the first day:

      a view on Florence

      View of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo.

      Before starting to see Florence one should first look down from the top of one of its grey stone towers at the red sea of roofs lying between the hills, scattered with villas, cypresses and olive groves. The natural setting of the city is superb.

      We start our visit to Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo, the most famous observation point of the cityscape of Florence, reproduced in countless postcards and a must-see for anyone visiting the city.

      San Miniato

      San Miniato

      The old town can be appreciated in its entirety from the surrounding hills, especially from Forte Belvedere, from the Piazzale Michelangelo with the Romanesque Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, which offers one of the most beautiful views of the Arno valley.

      From this point go up the monumental staircase of San Salvatore to San Miniato, with its facade of inlaid polychrome marble; this is more than decoration, it is color serving to express the architecture; the serene beauty of this façade is a foreshadowing of the Renaissance.

      Frescoes by Spinello Aretino

      In the interior this quiet expression of beauty in marble is

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