Duomo

This is the baptistery across the street. The doors were designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti and are so beautiful. They've been dubbed "The Gates of Paradise".

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A Weekend Away

February 2nd 2008
I am just sitting finishing up my lunch and realized I haven't updated recently! This last weekend went by pretty quickly. School and the work that comes with it seems to move thing along pretty swiftly. Anyway, last weekend the girls upstairs and I traveled outside of Rome and visited Florence (or in Italian, Firenze). It is a beautiful city! It's much, much smaller than Rome, so it wasn't h ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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