Firenze Day 2
After a looong morning in bed, still recovering from the heavy dinner of the night before, we decided to do a bit of exercising by walking all the way up to the Piazza Michelangelo from which you have the best view of the city. Lots of married couples come there to have their pictures done as well, we saw two asian couples and a pregnant italian bride.
From there, we went a tiny bit more up to San Miniato, a beautiful wooden church with an amazing cemetery in the back. Most of the family chapels, which contain several tombs, were more like small churches and must have cost a fortune. Inside the church there was a wedding going on, but we could still enter.
San Miniato al Monte
San Minianto al Monte from the back with a part of the cemetary (the one without the huge tombs)
On the way down we went to the other side of the Arno and visited the Santa Croce church. It wasn't that impressive (somehow after all the churches in Rome you just get a bit bored...) but had several tombs of famous people (mainly Michelangelo and Galileo) and monuments dedicated to other famous ones (like Dante who refused to have his body moved backed to Florence once dead). We felt a bit cheated on when noticing on the inside that the whole altar part of the church was under renovation and we couldn't see anything, but the inner court of the cloister was nice. All that for 4€.
Grave of Michelangelo
For lunch, we discovered that the cheapest solution to eat in Florence, except of course the supermarket, is the MacDonalds. We did not go to the Macdonals but to some kind of similar fastfood right next to it, with pizza instead of a burger. And that was the main surprise: it was actually very good. For 5.55 € you got a drink, half a pizza and a big glass of fresh fruit salad.
After this late lunch it started raining again so we went back to the hotel, bought a picnic for the evening in the supermarket and later on just cruised our neighbourhood (with some more churches). And of course a gelato :)
From there, we went a tiny bit more up to San Miniato, a beautiful wooden church with an amazing cemetery in the back. Most of the family chapels, which contain several tombs, were more like small churches and must have cost a fortune. Inside the church there was a wedding going on, but we could still enter.
San Miniato al Monte
San Minianto al Monte from the back with a part of the cemetary (the one without the huge tombs)
On the way down we went to the other side of the Arno and visited the Santa Croce church. It wasn't that impressive (somehow after all the churches in Rome you just get a bit bored...) but had several tombs of famous people (mainly Michelangelo and Galileo) and monuments dedicated to other famous ones (like Dante who refused to have his body moved backed to Florence once dead). We felt a bit cheated on when noticing on the inside that the whole altar part of the church was under renovation and we couldn't see anything, but the inner court of the cloister was nice. All that for 4€.
Grave of Michelangelo
For lunch, we discovered that the cheapest solution to eat in Florence, except of course the supermarket, is the MacDonalds. We did not go to the Macdonals but to some kind of similar fastfood right next to it, with pizza instead of a burger. And that was the main surprise: it was actually very good. For 5.55 € you got a drink, half a pizza and a big glass of fresh fruit salad.
After this late lunch it started raining again so we went back to the hotel, bought a picnic for the evening in the supermarket and later on just cruised our neighbourhood (with some more churches). And of course a gelato :)
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