Firenze!!

Ok, quindi, la settemana scorsa e stato fantastico. La settemana era piccolo perche andaremo a firenze per la ultimo tre giorni. Mi e piachuto che siamo andati a Firenze perche quella citta ha tantissimo archittectura. Per questo entra scrivero italiano e inglese insieme, invece scrivere italiano prima e dopo inglise, va bene? Ok…

So, this last week was really amazing. The week was short because we were going to Florence for the last three days of the week. I liked that we could go to Florence because that city has so much amazing architecture to see. For this entry I will write Italian and English together, instead of writing Italian first and then English, ok?

Quando siamo arrivati, siamo andati a la posta alta vedere la Chiesa di San Miniato al Monte. Quella Chiesa e tanto vecchia e e cimitero dalle persone famose nella historia di Italia. Dopo, siamo andati a Piazzale Michelangelo. Quella Piazza a grande ma non in centro di Firenze. Ma da qui, abbiamo potuto vedere la citta da sopra…guardate…

When we arrived, we went to a high place to see the Church of San Miniato al Monte. This church was very old and is also the cemetery for many famous persons in the history of Italia and Florence. After, we went to the Piazzale Michelange. This place was big but not in the center of Florence. But from here, we could see the whole city from above…look at this…

la chiesa di San Miniato al Monte, lots of persian influence in this structure

from the piazzale michelangelo

Dopo, siamo andati in centro di Firenze, abbiamo visto la Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore prima. Mama mia, come grande e fantastico. Siamo andati indentro e abbiamo imparato come e fatto. So dalle mie clase di archittectura, che il architteo era Brunelleschi. Anche, il giorno prossimo, siamo ascendati il duomo. Questa Chiesa e il quarto grande chiesa nel mondo. Posso dire piu cosi, ma penso che I fotografie possono parlare per loro…

After, we went to the center of Florence, we say the Cathedral of Santa Maria of the Flowers, first. Wow, so big and fantastic. We went inside and learned how it was made. I know from my architecture classes that the architect was Brunelleschi. Also, the next day we went up the dome to see out.This church is the fourth biggest church in the world. I can say more about it, but I think that the photographs can speak for themselves.

the redone facade of St Mary's, its stature is phenominal

inside you can begin to fathom the scale

the dome of Brunelleschi covered with frescos, Filiberto told us that this was a shame, because the original idea of the church was to be done in the renaissance movement, and these frescos don't follow those ideals

outside showing the apps and transepts of St. Mary's, you can see the scaffolding around it obviously, this is because Italia has workers that regularly maintain the facades of important structures

the view of florence from the dome


Filiberto and I (with my new juventus scarf) sitting atop florence

deep in thought

Abbiamo visto tanto, per l’esampo, abbiamo visto il lavoro di Michelangelo, Caravaggio e l’altra artiste di Italia. Anche abbiamo visto i construzioni importanti dalla historia di Firenze. Ma c’era qualcosa che mi non e piachuto di Firenze. Firenze ha molti gli studenti americani. Dappertutto, puo vedere un American. In questa citta, possibile ogni persone puo parlare in inglese e in italiano. Era difficale parlare in italiano perche le persone di Firenze volgiono parlare veloce perche loro stanno lavorando, quindi, parlano in inglese perche e piu veloce, non mi e piachuto quello.

We saw so much, for example, we saw the works of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and other artists of Italia. We also saw many important buildings from Florence’s history. But there was something I didn’t like about Florence. The city has so many American students. Everywhere, you can see Americans. In this city, almost every person can speak both English and Italian. It is difficult to talk in Italian because the people of Florence want to talk fast because they are working, so they talk in English to be more swift, and I didn’t like that.

the river that runs beside the old city and some of the cool structures that exist on it



an important piazza in florence with replicas of many well done sculptures

Ma, totalle, Firenze e una citta magnifico. Dopo, io ed I miei amici siamo andati a Bologna e Modena per poco tempo. Abbiamo visto qualche construzioni fantastico, ma non abbiamo capito come hanno fatto.

But overall, Florence was an awesome city. After some friends and I went to Bologna and Modena for a short time. We saw some fantastic building, but we didn’t know how they were made, so it was difficult to really appreciate how awesome those places were.

the church in bologna that was halted because it was going to overtake St. Peters insize, Michelangelo was workign on the facade, you can see how it abruptly stopped

i was fascinated with the idea of the arcade in bologna and modena, here you can see the arcade sits right next to the street, providing shelter and nice means to bring the user into shopping space

my first encounter with bocci, these guys were playing for about four hours before the game started in Modena.