San Gimignano
We walked through the town and found a free museum that had
a miniature version of what the city would have been like in the 1300’s. They
showed all the buildings and we could work out the streets we had already
walked down. It was really cool. Then inside they had some models of people
doing the things that they would have done in those days.
Mum and Dad wanted to climb the biggest tower in the town so
they could get a good view. That meant that we had climb up lots of stairs. I
hate climbing stairs, we have had to climb too many.
Because we climbed the stairs though we could get gelati.
There were two shops there that said they had the Worlds’ Best Gelati across
the road from each other. We didn’t know which one to go to so we decided to go
to the one with more people.
We had a walk around and I took some more photos. Mum and Dad love this one because you can see my reflection. It was a nice day.
Sienna
Sienna was about an hour’s drive from our villa which Emma
and I thought was too far. Sienna is an old walled city with lots of the
buildings the same as what they were like hundreds of years ago. When we were
walking through we saw an awesome old door with scary knockers on it.
The first place we went to was the Duomo di Sienna which was
the main cathedral. I really liked the inside of this church, it was
spectacular.
I liked the statues of all of the emperors around the roof inside
it. It was like they were looking down on you. There were lots of cool mosaics
on the floor.
We also went into the library where there were books that
were hundreds of years old. The room was really bright and colourful with
paintings on the ceiling. They books had lots of colourful writing in them and I
thought it would have taken the monks who wrote them a very very long time to
do.
Then we went outside and down some really steep steps next
to the Duomo to a door at the bottom which lead into the Crypt. There was a
famous painting in there and you could see the foundations for the church.
Mum had told us about a famous horse race they have in
Sienna where people race around the main square with not saddles on. So we went
to the square to have a look. I was surprised because the square was actually
quite hilly and round. We could see a tall building with a tower that
overlooked the square that was a terra cotta colour. Mummy was a bit annoyed
because if we were there the next week we would have been able to see the horse
race. We saw a picture in one of the shops where two of the horses in the race
had no rider.
Because it was really hot we had more gelati to cool down. On
the way out of town we saw a really pig with a fedora and classes on that
looked really cool.
I liked Sienna so I’ll give it a 9 out of 10, again 1 point
off because it was too hot.
No comments:
Post a Comment