The Gates of Paradise on the Baptistry

As Master Builder of Florence my buddy Giotto commissioned many of the big names in art to decorate the Baptistry. Brunelleschi, DiVinci, Donatello and Ghiberti all contributed. It is Ghiberti's bronze depictions of biblical events that have become the most famous. He spent 21 years working on it.

Day Four (Tuesday)

June 27th 2006
On our previous stay at the Hotel Palazzo Vecchio we were given a beautiful room on the ground floor. I remember the air conditioner being almost too cold. This year with me being in a single room and having a gigantic suitcase I of course had a room three flights up. Worst of all, it had no a/c. Well, it had a unit but it basically just blew in th ... read more

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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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