I have spent the last four days working in Florence and making contact with the wonderful staff of the Passion for Italy Florentine hotels. I must say I think that Florence is taking over number one stance rivaling Roma as my favourite city in Italy.!!I always judge this by the number of time your breath gets taken away e.g. when you turn a corner and there in your view is the most amazing building of sublime architecture and sculpture!! This has happened to me many times this week...
Sometimes I find it overwhelming and very emotional. Such beauty and such creation by amazing human beings who have built these incredible structures in the past. ( Yes I know they had slaves and yes those slaves were very good)!! All I can say is thank God for the Medicis and co who decided to put their money into wonderful art instead of war!!
If you are a lover of culture, architecture, art exhibitions and classical music then Florence is the place for you.. Home of the renaissance man and woman – there is so much to see and so many beautiful shops to browse through. I walked around the whole city today - each area has its charm or its famous must see museum or statue and yes the queues at the Ufizzi have not changed - always a mile long so please book our Ufizzi Guided Tour – it is worth all the tea in china or should I say all the paintings in the Ufizzi as queuing for that long - your legs are already tired before you go in. The Galleria Ufizzi is a very large museum with thousands of paintings so it is wonderful to have guide to explain what they are and to gain information about the periods and the artists.
