ITALY: TUSCANY AND ROME
OCTOBER 2005

 

Volume One: Florence and Pisa

Volume Two: San Gimignano, Siena, Greve

Volume Three: Rome

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Volume One: Florence and Pisa

 


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Saturday, October 1

Medici Chapel and Tombs

 
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Bapistry and Cathedral ( Doma S. Maria del Fiore) 


                       Baptistery Ceiling                               Baptistery Door                                      Baptistery Door Panel


    

Doma (S. Maria del Fiore)
  
Lunch Break


Piazza della Signoria


 

 

 


Fountain with Neptune

 



Ponte Vecchio

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Ponte Vecchio View

 

  

 

 

 

 

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Sunday, October 2  (Art Tours in the rain)

Acadamy Gallery


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Santa Croce

 

 

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Uffizi
 


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Monday, October 3

Pisa

 

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Volume Two: San Gimignano, Siena, Greve

 

Tuesday, October 4

San Gimignano



Hotel Pescille         View from hotel window
 


Views from Montestigliano Estate (south of Siena)

 

    

Ecco La Cucina / Chef Gina Stipo

    


Visiting San Gimignano


    



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Wednesday, October 5


Visiting Siena

 

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Scenic Tuscany


Monte Oliveto Abbey
 


Vineyard Visit
Tenute Silvio Nardi
Brunello di Montalcino

 

 

  

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Thursday, October 6


Visiting Greve in Chianti (more wine tasting)

 

    

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Volume Three: Rome

 

Saturday, October 8

St. Peters Square / Vatican City


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Courtyard of Vatican Museum                                  Laoocoon Group (1st Century / excavated 1506)
 

Egyptian Marble / Nero's tub                                    Contstantina's Sarcophagus

 


Ceiling Hall of Tapestries

 


Ceiling Hall of Maps
 

Papal Gardens Views
 

Exiting Museum for visit of St. Peter's Basilica
   


 
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Spanish Steps in the rain

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Sunday, October 9

Visiting Ancient Rome


 

 

                                                                                              Forum view from Coliseum
  

Lunch Break
  

Walking the Roman Forum

 

 

 

  

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Spanish Steps in the sun


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