Florence - The Proconsolo residence
Hello to all, we started from Messina by train after having booked a bed and breakfast that overlooks Piazza Duomo in Via del Proconsolo. Excellent structure with a high proportion quality / price ratio. Breakfast served in room after a detailed selection of our products you want. (Residence of Proconsolo). Fitted with Loonely Planet guide we decide to turn and see these as possible in 5 days since the historical center of the city is very collected. First stage provided the Uffizzi, but arrived the next morning we arrived, in front of a huge row we decide to change the destination of our first day along with the possibility of being able to book a visit to the museum for the following days to avoid the line (cost € 9.50 including the ticket). Having booked the Uffizi we move towards the Academy Museum to see the original David. Also here is our view a long line, but smaller than one seen at the Uffizi, and then decide Agreement. Again, the visit is booked but now the morning is lost then we shot an hour and a half row of slow and admire the majestic man who defeated Goliath the mother as fact and even Michelangelo. Cost € 8 a little 'too high for a museum that presents only the David and the Prisoners of Michelangelo, but he had to wait because the ticket is entitled "Tribute to David." After an afternoon stroll in the city, dinner and ninna. The second day began with another row, much smaller than half an hour to climb the Dome of the cathedral: that cost € 6 for better or worse holds them, in fact, 463 steps are a boon to dispose of the first steak of the evening and both internal and external from there is magnificent, the only new for those suffering from claustrophobia stairs are very narrow and should be gradually increasing to shrink. Afternoon after the rest is due partly to the time of the Palazzo Pitti. Nothing row here, maybe i will be € 12.50 for a ticket? Seem exaggerated, but after a nice walk in the Boboli gardens, where you should bring a bag lunch and then taste it in some hidden corner and romantic (if you are in pairs like me), we visited the Palatine Gallery, all 'interno di Palazzo Pitti, perhaps, to my surprise, includes works by comparing and rooms at the Louvre. Not to be missed. Third day finally leaves for the Uffizi, booked for 11 hours. We enter with no row and climb to the second floor where I collected all the major works. Among paintings Madonna with child and works of Leonardo, Raphael, Botticelli spring and Carravaggio, flowing through a lot 'of hours immersed in the colors and faces almost photographed, the pictures, you follow with the eyes of those who remain proud there forever to be admired. Leave the museum you are tired and excited at the same time, the brain has no more desire to concentration, then spent the afternoon shopping around for various markets and squares. The last day we have dedicated to churches and small museums, even free, with a visit to Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce. That really admire all the beautiful view of his place, my favorite. Finally I would like to show you the restaurants where I dined, since lunch was just a sandwich, and I was really good. The restaurants are of medium / high quality / price, and then with dinner for two people range from € 60 to € 70 and are located in different places depending on where we were: "The white boar" close to Ponte Vecchio, " Baldwin "in Santa Croce," Trattoria Santo Spirito "in the Holy Spirit," Poli Trattoria "in a street of Via dei Calzaiuoli. All really really good. Chosen after a careful selection for miscellaneous information. Young for more information, hoping that my knowledge, do not hesitate to contact me. hello