Pictures - Florence

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Cosimo Medici, first duke of Urbino and the founder of the Medici dynasty	His son, Lorenzo the Magnificent, founder and patron of the Florentine renaissance.	A replica of Michelangelo's David in its original location. (The original is now in the Accademia.)	Ghiberti's Doors of Paradise.
A small waterfall on the Arno.	Giotto's belltower, which I climbed.	A young Florentine in the Medici palace.	One of the ubiquitous Florentine lions.
The Uffizi palace.	Cafe Rivoire, where I drank an interesting hot-chocolate-like concoction on chilly mornings.	The courtyard at the San Marco monastery.	Crowds and crowds of tourists, everywhere.
Sculptures in the grotto where Michelangelo's workshop once was.	Inside the Medici palace. You can see their famous six-ball shield just over the statue's head. And pretty much everywhere else you look in Florence.	The Ponte Vecchio bridge, which is the only bridge not blown up by the Germans during WWII.	The view from the table where I ate lunch one day, staring down a narrow medieval road at the belltower.
The Trebbio cross, erected in the 13th century to mark some atrocity committed against the Moors. This was directly outside my hotel window.	Florentine skyline. Look at the narrow, windy streets and you'll see why I spent so much time here getting lost.	Secret passageway of the Medicis. Supposedly this runs throughout the town for about a kilometer, linking their palazzos to all the critical buildings of their day.	Lorenzo's library - fabulous place, one of my favorite things in Florence.
The duomo, Florence's main cathedral.	Campo Spiritu Sanctu. The church here, which was supposed to be spectacular, was all covered in plastic, but the square was nice.	More skylines.	The small crenellated building behind the statue was the first Medici palace.