Here's Joe at the Colosseum in Roma (AD 72). Although we've been here a couple of times, we still go back. It's amazing.
Civita Bagnoreggio is a small town in the Tuscan hills south of Firenze. The only access to the town is via this bridge built in the early part of the 20th century.
In the town of Civita Bagnoreggio.
The Campanile (belltower) in the main piazza at Siena.
Piazza del Campo in Siena.
Stained glass in the Siena Duomo.
The Duomo in Siena; construction began in 1136.
Crowded via Casato di Sotta in Siena.
Volterra, another of the small towns in Toscana that we visited.
The Medici Chapel and the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Firenze, built to honor the many generations of the Medici's that ruled Firenze during the Rennaisance: Cosimo (il vecchio), Lorenzo (il magnifico), Giovanni, Lucrezia, etc.
Firenze, looking north towards Fiosele from the top of the Duomo.
Inside the great Duomo in Firenze, built to hold more than 20,000 people.
Firenze: the Baptisty (foreground), the Duomo and Campanile, and Brunelleschi's great dome (background).
The Duomo dwarfs the rest of Firenze, seen here from Piazzale Michelangelo south of the city center.
The Ponte Vecchio over the Arno, the oldest bridge in Firenze.
Michelangelo's tomb inside of Santa Croce (Firenze was his home).
The Torre Pendente (The Leaning Tower) in Pisa. Construction began in 1173 and the tower began leaning almost immediately.
Stained glass inside the Duomo in Firenze.
Inside the main train station (La Stazione Centrale) in Florence
The Duomo in Florence (1359), is the fourth largest cathedral in Europe (behind St. Peter's in Rome, Notre Dame in Paris and the Duomo in Milano).
Inside the Duomo in Florence.
The distinctive architecture and marble stone of the Duomo in Florence.
A massive statue of Neptune in Ammannati's Fontana di Nettuno (1575) in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
Michelangelo's famous statue of David, symbolizing triumph over tyranny, stood in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence for more than 350 years until it was moved in 1863 to its current location in the Galleria dell'Accademia. A replica stands in the piazza today.
Giambologna's famous statue, Rape of the Sabine Women (1583), stands in Piazza della Signoria outside the Uffizi in Florence.
Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
In Florence. Looking north along the Arno River from the Ponte Vecchio, towards Piazzale Michelangelo.
Galileo's tomb in Sante Croce.
Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce.
Machiavelli's tomb in Santa Croce.
Inside Sante Croce in Florence.
Stained glass windows inside Sante Croce in Florence.
Piazza della Repubblica in Florence.
The Tuscan town of Fiesole, in the hills above Florence.
The house where Frank Lloyd Wright lived in Fiesole in 1910.
The Roman Amphitheater in Fiesole, dating back to the 1st century BC.
The Roman Amphitheater in Fiesole, dating back to the 1st century BC. Look closely and you'll notice not one, not two, but three Joe's taking in the show!
More Roman ruins in Fiesole, dating back to the 1st century BC.
The Duomo in Fiesole.
The Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Few tourists actually cross the Ponte Vecchio to see what's on the other side...the area of the city called Oltrarno (translation: other side of the Arno) is really terrific.
The Ponte Vecchio as seen from the Ponte Trinita.
Local artists and students gather along the Ponte Trinita to sketch the Ponte Vecchio in the late afternoon sunlight.
