Firenze: Strike Edition

A few days ago my class took a trip to Florence, or Firenze, to look at stuff from the Renaissance. This being Florence, that ended up being quite a lot. We were going to take a reasonable bus at 8.50, but unfortunately there was a strike organized (to lengthen the weekend, so say our professors) starting at 8.30 so we instead had to meet at 7.50. Regardless, we took a 9.00 bus. Oh, Italy. How I will never understand your sense of timing.

We started at the Galleria degli Uffizi, home to several famous works of art including the Birth of Venus, which you will find on a bottle of Botticelli Olive Oil. Cultural value, indeed. After a lunch on the Piazza della Signoria, we continued on to visit a number of churches, including Santa Maria Novella, Santa Maria della Carmine,

Brancacci Chapel. If you took Nemerov's course, this should seem familiar.

and also some notable areas like Palazzo Pitti and il Ponte Vecchio, bling capital of the world.
did you think I was kidding?

Finally, we ended the day at the Duomo of Firenze, which is climbable. So team Glimmers, as we call ourselves thanks to the word choices of our professor, scaled the Duomo. Hard? Yes. Awesome? Absolutely.

I can see for miles and miles