Italy 2012

These are some of the photos I took during our vacation in Venice and Florence in July, 2012. It’s hard for me to believe that it was only ten days — three days in Venice and a week in Florence!

All the photos are also in my Flickr set, which is arranged chronologically. (It’s 512 photos, so I recommend that you not try to view them in one sitting!)

I’ve also compiled a “greatest hits” slideshow that is a bit more manageable.

Photographs

Venice

• Sunset over Venice
• Old Man with Rosary
• Recipe: Azzime Dolci, Unleavened Cookies in Venice
• Venice in the Rain
• Winged Lion, Symbol of Venice
• The Decayed Beauty of Venice
• Piazza and Piazzetta San Marco
• The Quiet Side of Venice
• Horses of San Marco
• Burano Lace Museum
• Colored Houses of Burano
• Murano, Island of Glass
• Doge’s Palace
• Inside the Doge’s Palace
• Jewish  Ghetto
• Grand Canal
• Lido
• Venice at Night

Florence

• Sunset over Arno River
• Duomo at Sunset
• Duomo
• Giotto Campanile
• Michelangelo’s David
• Il Papiro – Paper Store
• Piazzale Michelangelo
• Basilica of San Miniato al Monte
• Pitti Palace
• Inside the Pitti Palace
• Boboli Gardens
• Porcelain Museum, Boboli Gardens
• Three Grottoes in the Boboli Gardens
• Buontalenti Grotto, Boboli Gardens
• Basilica of Santa Croce
• Return to Piazzale Michelangelo
• Palazzo Medici Riccardi
• Ponte Vecchio
• Living Leonardo
• A Closer Look at the Ponte Vecchio
• Santa Maria Novella

San Gimignano

• “Manhattan of Tuscany”
• Snapshots
• San Gimignano 1300: Medieval Tuscany in Miniature
• Palazzo Comunale
• Torre Grossa

Siena

• Halls and Horses (Piazza del Campo, Siena)
• Siena Snapshots
• Siena Cathedral
• Inside Siena Cathedral
• Piccolomini Library, Siena Cathedral

Videos

• Burano Lacemaker
• Guitarists in the Venetian Ghetto
• Grand Canal of Venice
• Musicians at Piazzale Michelangelo (scroll down to bottom)
• Classical Guitarist Tadeusz Michalski, Piazza Uffici, Florence
• Accordion Player at Siena Cathedral
• View from Torre Grossa, San Gimignano