Hello from Florence! So on Friday I was in Venice. It was amazing, of course! Everything it's cracked up to be, if not more. The main thing I did all day was get lost :) I got off the train and wandered aimlessly before coming across something I'd been told to see - the Scuola di San Rocco (St Roch, who I learned alllllll about in Montpellier, where he was born). It has a whole lotof Tintoretti paintings in their original settings, whichis pretty cool. Me and my audioguide spent quite a while in there! The ground floor has lots of great paintings, but it's the upper hall you go to see - it's completely covered, walls and ceiling, with them! And if it's not paintings it's gilding or amazing wooden carvings around the lower walls.
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