The palace is a collection of Florentine art from early Renaissance on. Don having a little rest after the 14th to 18th centuries and before the modern art!
We walked around for three hours.
To recover, we found a park along the river in which to eat our lunch -- more wild boar sausages, pecorino, and salami with fennel.
Without plates we had to make do with a plastic bag to lay out our feast which also included tomatoes, lettuce and basil!
Check out the new bag.
After picking up our washing and eating a gelato we headed off to Piazza del Duomo, for a look inside the cathedral this time.
The Baptistery is made of white and green marble and has its famous golden (actually bronze, in any case replica) doors called the Gates of Heaven showing stories from the old testament.
Inside there are brilliantly colored mosaics showing old testament and new testament stories.
The gilt dome above practically glows, even without artificial lighting, and makes life down below feel very drab, by comparison. I guess that's the intent!
Next we visited the cathedral. As noted in a previous post a couple of weeks back, its facade matches that of the baptistery.
However inside, though huge and spacious, it was surprisingly plain and empty in comparison to many of other cathedals we have seen.
Although the famous dome is of course spectacular.
After a gelato and a rest, it was off to see a performance of Rigoletto, albeit with cut down cast and orchestra at St Mark's Anglican church.
Full throated singing from 10 feet away!
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