This particular one was roped off, but many of the crypt tops are worn completely down from centuries of people walking on them. Much of the floor at Santa Croce is like this, so you sort of have to walk on them.

A day in Firenze

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September 25th 2014
Geo: 43.7687, 11.2569One of my favorite movies has long been "A Room with a View" from the novel by EM Forester. It stars an impossibly young Helena Bonham Carter as a British expat who falls in love in Florence. When we were in Italy in 1994, we never made it south of Siena so I had yet to see Florence.I checked online and found that a day trip there from Rome is pretty easy. We ... 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