A Day in Florence

This week we went to Florence for a day. Italians call it Firenze. We saw the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. It is the cathedral there. It’s also call Il Duomo.

We saw the inside of the dome and it has Jesus, angels, and saints. I thought it was very beautiful. Filippo Brunelleschi designed the dome.

We climbed 458 stairs to the top of the dome. We also climbed the cathedral tower. It was 412 stairs up. That’s 1,740 steps (up and down)!

We went to lunch close to the cathedral. After we ate lunch, we went to the DaVinci museum. We got to build things and interact with stuff like turning wheels and pulling ropes.

The machines in this museum are copies of the real ones that Leonardo DaVinci invented. 

After we went to the DaVinci museum we went to the Palazzo della Signoria. There were a lot of statues like the model of David by Michelangelo (the real one is in a museum). I didn’t like seeing the naked statues.

Then we took a long walk to the Ponte Vecchio bridge which is a bridge that has buildings on it. It used to be called the street of gold because it was where all the gold was sold. There are still a lot of jewelry shops on the bridge. 

Next we tried to go to Boboli Gardens, but is was closed because they were repairing it from a big storm. This is a picture of us eating gelato before finding out we couldn’t see the gardens.

I got limone, nutella, and menta flavors. It was yummy.

Our last stop of the day was to Il Porcellino. It is a bronze pig. You can see me rolling a coin down it’s tongue for good luck. 

I was very tired at the end of the day. We ate pizza for dinner then took a train home.