Florence & Certaldo Alto

There are lots of cutsie villages and towns in Tuscany and Emma and I were worried that Mum was going to make us go to all of them. Luckily we didn’t, but we still seemed to go to a different place everyday. Some of the places that we went to were Florence, Sienna, San Gimignano and a the old town of Certaldo called Certaldo Alto

Florence

Florence is a really big place with beautiful bridges and statues and lots of nice squares

We started in Piazza del Signori because the Duomo was too busy. We got to the square and had a look at all the statues. We saw The Statue of David, a famous statue. There were lots of different statues.  One of my favourite was a fountain with a little boy and his dad. There were horses around them. I think it was the statue of Neptune. Then we went to the side of the square, upstairs to where there were more statues. 

 

 

 

From here we went into the courtyard of the town hall and wanted to take a photo of a little fountain but there was a pigeon on its head that wouldn’t move so we had to take the photo anyway. It was funny.

Then we walked across Ponte Vecchio. Ponte Vecchio is a bridge with houses on it. There were lots of expensive shops on there too most of them sold jewellery. For a pair of silver earrings it was like 2050 Euros. We found a little souvenir shop and me and Emma bought a little calendar for 1 Euro, lucky it wasn’t 1000 Euros. I really liked Ponte Vecchio because when you looked at it from another bridge you could see the yellow houses.

Finally we went to the Duomo which is the main cathedral in Florence. It had a big painting on the inside of the dome of heaven and hell and you could see God and Jesus. You could see in the picture lots of people praying on their knees and also some scary demons and skeletons chasing people. I really liked it. 

 

It was then time to go back to our villa but not before we had Gelati.

Florence was a really nice city and I rate it a 9 out 10, 1 point off because it was too hot.

Certaldo

We had a really great time in the old town of Certaldo which is called Certaldo Alto meaning “High Certaldo” because it’s up a hill. To get there you had to go on a funicular railway which is a little carriage that took us up the hill to where the old town was.

When we got there we saw that the town was walled but really small so we didn’t have to walk very much which Emma and I were happy about. I bought a really nice leather book to do my sketches in then we played a family game of hide and seek which was so much fun. 

By now everyone was hungry and thirsty so we found a bar and had a plate of local cheese and ham which was really yummy. I made a little cat out of it even though I’m not supposed to play with my food.