Category Archive: Italy

Venice is a land of magic. I walked into a huge square area and noticed something that I’ve always thought it was a fantasy and it only existed in films. There were hundreds and hundreds of birds gathered in this large square. They were tweaking, playing with each other, and even playing with people. Quite […]

  I hopped onto the water taxi with my suitcase and sat in the very back of the boat where the roof was opened so that I could see a whole new world. The boat took off a few minutes later and traveled through a narrow canal where I saw the typical European old charming […]

On the way to Venice, we stopped in Bologna, a city that tried to overpower other cities, but failed to do so. I walked through a continuous hall of arched colonnades. It seemed forever and went on for miles. Eventually, I reached to the center town of Bologna. In this center, there is a massive […]

Florence is rich in architecturally beautiful cathedrals and churches. Il Duomo, Santa Croce, and San Lorenzo are all very unique religious function places, but they share a few similarities. First of all, Santa Croce and San Lorenzo are churches and Il Duomo is a cathedral. All of these religious places have very symmetrical interiors, but […]

  Toward the outskirts of Florence, there is a beautiful river with buildings lining up on the side. There is a big well-known bridge, Ponte Vecchio. There are many jewelry shops on this bridge, and this area is one of the biggest pick-pocket areas which means we have to be careful with our wallets and […]

Palazzo Rucellai is a Renaissance Palace designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and it shows the modernized ideas of the classical arts from the Ancient Roman and Greeks. When I looked at this palace, I thought of a building that I recently saw in Rome. This building resembles the Colosseum because both […]

I was standing in front of a giant sculpture that I have always seen in pictures in books throughout my life. This statue was beyond more incredible than I imagined. It was much more incredible than the images in the books. Not only that the muscles are well sculpted, but also the veins running through […]

Do you ever wonder what a church looked like without a façade? San Lorenzo church was a perfect example of a church that had no façade. This church originally had a plan to have a façade built by Michelangelo. According to the sketch plans by Michelangelo, it would have been the best architecture structure in […]

Florence is gorgeous. This city is surrounded by same usual beautiful green mountains that I have been seeing for the past few days. Florence is actually located in a valley unlike most towns in the Tuscany region which are located on the top of the mountains. The buildings having typical designs that we would see […]

I sat on the bus and gazed out the window forever. I saw gorgeous mountains and curvy hills. The bus was driving through the curvy roads of the outskirts of the Tuscany region. We were heading to Florence from Rome, but stopped in two cities, Pisana and Siena. This region seemed beautiful. The mountains were […]