Giambologna's famous sculptures of birds. Watch or be watched.

Second floor of the Bargello museum. Rooms are filled with various types of art from various decades and more often centuries...makes a great visit for those with attention deficit of the "artistic" kind...here there's a taste of everything at every turn.

Rains of Florence, but the clouds are opening up...

April 16th 2005
Planned to go to Pisa today. Woke up at 10 to the gentle sound of rain on my roof. I open the shutters and peer at the steady sheet of drizzle. Just what I thought. Back to bed. This seems to be happening every Saturday I decide to break from my sleepy, dreamy rest. Well, I'm up. And I've got an entire day ahead, and a working umbrella. THE BARGELLO An hour later, however, I dec ... 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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