Bronze doors of the Battistero di San Giovanni

Firenze Day 2

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January 19th 2008
This day was amazing, flat out amazing. First thing we did was go see David at the Academy. There were a lot of other sculptures and paintings of Madonnas and such from the 1500s and such, but David was the main event. He was beautiful. The marble was a rich white color. The detail was ridiculous. I loved the veins in his arms. He was immensely large in actual size.When I first saw him I wan ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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