ITALY – 2018 (Venice, Florence, Murano, Burano, Pisa, and Lucca – and wine!)

What a wonderful trip!

For eight days in August, 2018 we were fortunate to visit the great cities of Venice and Florence in Italy.

We also ventured into four smaller cities, Murano, Burano, Pisa, and Lucca.

Of course, we had to partake of the Chintely wine country as well!

 

enJoy the pictures – and the one video:

BEST 100+ PIXS

 

COLLAGES

 

US (selfies +)

 

CHURCHES & MUSEUMS

 

STREET SCENES & MORE

 

CHRONOLOGICALLY

 

GETTING THERE

 

VENICE DAY 1: Main sites & Canal ride

 

VENICE DAY 2: Walkaround & opera

 

VENICE DAY 3: Murano & Burano

 

FLORENCE DAY 1: Duomo & Walkaround

 

FLORENCE DAY 2: David & Museums

 

FLORENCE DAY 3: Pisa & Lucca

 

FLORENCE DAY 4: Winery & Night overlook

 

GETTING BACK

 

VIDEO

VIDEO TAKES

(This is a full 30+ minute video, with more than 20 short takes – plus a few ‘sounds of the streets’.)


ITINERARY

Leave NEWARK Wed. Aug. 1 11:30 p.m.
Arrive ROME Thu. Aug. 2 1:40 p.m.

GETTING TO VENICE ON TRAIN

Check IN Thu. Aug. 2nd
Ca’ del Duca
Calle dei Fabbri 916, Venice, VE, 30124 Italy
7325817575677
Check OUT Mon. Aug. 6th

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VENICE
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Thu. Aug. 2nd (Evening)
> go straight to hotel – get there late!

Fri. Aug. 3rd
Doge Museum, St Mark, Walk Tour (Daytime)
https://www.viator.com/tours/Venice/Venice-Super-Saver-Skip-the-Line-Doges-Palace-and-St-Marks-Basilica-Tours-Venice-Walking-Tour-and-Grand-Canal-Cruise/d522-2635VENICESS

Sat. Aug. 4th
St. Mark Cathedral 11 a.m.
https://www.viator.com/tours/Venice/Skip-The-Line-St-Marks-Cathedral-Tour-with-Entrance-to-the-Baptistery-and-Zen-Chapel/d522-13102P1?itemId=652979746

Opera (evening/night)
https://www.viator.com/tours/Venice/Musica-a-Palazzo-Traveling-Opera-Performance-in-Venice/d522-7083OPERA

Sun. Aug. 5th
Mass and Walk around
http://www.venice.nu/tips/venice-church-trail/
Mon. Aug. 6th

GETTING TO FLORENCE TRAIN- TO DO!
Early morning!

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FLORENCE
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Check IN Mon. Aug. 6th
Hotel Pierre
Via De Lamberti 5, Florence, FI, 50123 Italy
7325820630674
Check OUT Fri. Aug. 10 6:05 p.m.

Mon. Aug. 6th
(afternoon/evening)
Duomo
https://m.viator.com/tours/Florence/Skip-the-Line-Florence-Duomo-with-Brunelleschis-Dome-Climb/d519-3092BRUNESCHELLI

Tue. Aug. 7th
Tour of city
https://m.viator.com/tours/Florence/Skip-the-Line-Florence-Accademia-and-Uffizi-Gallery-Tour/d519-2428M1M2

Wed. Aug. 8th
Pisa and Luca day trip
https://m.viator.com/tours/Florence/Pisa-and-Lucca-tour-with-Leaning-Tower-Entrance/d519-5919P366

Thur. Aug. 9th
Tuscany Wine Tour
https://m.viator.com/tours/Florence/Taste-of-Chianti-Tuscan-Cheese-Wine-and-Lunch-from-Florence/d519-5070CHIANTISAFARI

Fri. Aug. 10
BACK TO ROME ON TRAIN ???

Leave ROME Fri. Aug. 10 6:05 p.m.
Arrive NEWARK Fri. Aug. 10 9:25 p.m.

EXTRA
Map of churches in Florence
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1FC31D-uQjRY4zx5tK–YcEPN6Lc&hl=en&ll=43.77179121494543%2C11.255257000000029&z=15


Reflections on the Renaissance visit to Italy

[1]
It saddens me to reflect on how as we evolve to a digital life form we no longer have physical records of our history and aspirations. Where will the great paintings be? Where will be the great printed books be? Where will be the magnificent statues of our civilization be if all is digital and nothing is physical?… We may be left only with buildings and non-descript conduits of digital information but no visible physical record of our times… Realism in art all but disappeared in Europe for more than a millennium after the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance… What if the ‘experiment’ with the digital age takes us down a similar road where we will lose the capacity to appreciate the real because we live in a digital state?

[2]
What a shame that after Vatican Council II, we did not think through the perceptual consequence of having a new simpler alter deface the view of the original… We could have done better.

[3]
The gore and violence of religious art is real and everywhere! Storytelling at its best. The language of graphics rather than letters…

 


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