Six Western European travel: Florence

In Italy in the four days of the time, so there are more opportunities in Italy highway rest stop point on the edge of the table. In addition to using currency compared to the proud, there is another strange. Import is real imports, forward-only. Generally there are fast food sold in her left hand, pizza, etc., right hand self-service food. At the edge of the opposite or fast food will have a supermarket. The supermarket is open, you can feel free to get something, its exports to the other side of the entrance, but also the export of the House. That is, whatever is enter buy Take Away, buffet, or into the supermarket shopping, the toilet, to go out and have to wear from supermarket inside a big circle around the past. Buy food first into account billing, with Taiwan to counter for receipt. The gate of the Tabernacle, the left one is located between fast food and supermarkets, there is only one cashier, is responsible for your side of the pizza, but also to your side of the mineral water, usually the side a staged a debt, but also handle it well. I buy pizza when not sure name, just give him money, with which he sold to me, good in Italy was originally the home of pizza, not what is good and so on, but also decent, eat pizza to rubber less of a chance.

In fact, from Venice to Rome, our buses have been in Florence, that is what we think the line is not very reasonable arrangements, may be a travel agency for time considerations.

North-South line Florence for Italy, traffic hub of its advantageous geographical location to its ancient beginning easier development, but also easier to capture by the enemy and aggression. The Romans soon established a resident here and took a name Ferenczy (Firenze), the mean is doomed to flowering prosperity. 13th century and early 14th century, Florence is Italy's most important cultural and economic center, 15th century and 16th century Florence became the center of humanism and Renaissance, many great people during this period, such as Michelangelo, etc.

Our tours all personnel in Michelangelo square photo, from here you can overlook the panorama of Florence.

Compared to Rome, I felt better in Florence, perhaps because there is no such a mess in Florence and Rome. As with Rome, Florence and also to many square (Piazzale). We took some time in some of the main Plaza, room looked as originally placed at Michelangelo's masterpieces and David (David) statue of monarch Plaza (Santa Croce). Now David original has moved into the Museum, in its original location on a copy. In the Holy Cross in the square next to the Church of St. Cross, for his three great figures of the commemoration of the Tomb. One is the Michelangelo, the other two are Galileo and Dante. The other three are Catholic Saint square square, Cathedral Square, etc.

Florence gave me the impression that visitors with Rome, a gentle beauty, maybe the Renaissance and humanism of the legacy left by here.

I walked across the Arno River in Florence, the Roman Empire had already existed in ancient bridge across the River quietly. Bridge in the middle of the street with no different, and this is the bridge of chic. Bridge above the House, built by hawkers selling souvenirs on the deck. In these days of travel, I gradually found a small discovery: almost all cities will have a river, or through, or as with wrapping. London's River Thames is not to say that Paris Seine is also famous throughout the world. Shanghai Huangpu River, Rome, Florence, there are Tevera Arno. And will soon travel to Lyon and Marseille and between the famous Luo River (Rhone) through which, like a yudai connection Lyon, Marseille, and injected into the Eastern Mediterranean. Water facilities contribute to the city's commercial and agricultural development, not to mention the fact that the River would have meant that the origin of civilization. Maybe it was relying on the only access to the city by the aura.

2000 April 15