Guided City Tour Florence

Villa Pitiana - our start hotel  The Tour of Tuscany is on the start. The day before Edelweiss always offers  a Guided City Tour downtown Florence. We are happy to welcome nearly the whole group to the beauty of this Renaissance town. Stay tuned, more will be on tomorrow.... Dinner at the Villa the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo was our first highlight Bill was even surprised by the beauty of the scaffolding 50 members of the Medici family are buried here Original Michelangelo - 2 tombs of the Medici Palazzo Riccardi Tiffany and Dan the "Gates of Paradise" from Ghiberti Il Duomo they couldn`t top the church for 100 years. They just didn`t know how to do it. Until the genious architect Bruneleschi came. That`s him, still looking on the masterpiec of architecture another original of Michelangelo - the Bacchus The Bargello The Bargello has so much to offer and is really a hidden treasure, no lines, no cruise ship crowds - awesome another original Michelangelo - Mother Mary with the child Santa Croce - the second biggest church in Florence lunch in the middle of the town on a very quite place Piazza Signoria with the David round the corner are the Uffici Gallery - the biggest collection of art in the world. Here Galileo Gallilei - "and yes it´s moving" Ponte Vecchio - the only bridge in Florence which was not blown up by the Germans at the end of WW II the whole day was a big WOW Tiffany at Tiffany`s Via Tuornabuoni - the street of all the disigners and ice cream at the end of a day with lots of impression on Piazza Santa Maria Novella These guys are very skilled. We have to go back to Villa Pitiana - the welcome briefing will start in an hour   Thank you everybody - it was a pleasure guiding you