We went to two main museums in Florence: the Uffizi Gallery and The Gallery of the Academy of Florence. There were several famous works there, which we took pictures of (even though it was against the rules)!
This painting, The Birth of Venus, but Sandro Botticelli was commissioned by the Medici family of Florence and is now kept in the Uffizi Gallery. I thought it was interesting that there was a stone replica beside the painting so that blind visitors could also experience it.
And of course, Michaelangelo's David statue, which was in The Gallery of the Academy of Florence. It was so lifelike - we were amazed!
During our last day in Italy, we took a trip to Siena, which is also a city in the area of Tuscany, famous for its medieval cityscape, among other things. This is a picture of the Duomo in Siena, also very detailed and covered with marble panels like the one in Florence.
This is the Piazza del Campo (Campo Square) where we sat to eat our lunch. It was sunny and beautiful, filled with other people eating and feeding the many pigeons in the square.
View of another church on our hike up a small hill to get a better view of the city.
And the Siena Duomo from far away.
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