Tag: italy
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Day 15~ September 15th~ Tuscany
How often does it happen to you that you are in museum looking at art and you notice people going first to the little cards or papers that hold a description about the art and reading it before even looking at what it describes? By doing that, don’t we prejudge an artwork and fill ourselves…
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Day 14~ September 14th~ Tuscany
~Curiosity thrives behind half open windows~ Lucca~ Toscana
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Day 13~ September 13th~ Tuscany
Where this bicycle stands there once was a carriage with horses and smart people wearing hats and tailcoats and they all looked at the duomo with reverence.
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Day 12~ September 12th~ Tuscany
So much of the charm of old Europe comes from its layers upon layers of history and the value they place on preserving tradition. Walking into the exquisitely charming rooms of this beautiful pharmacy in Florence, my heart skipped a beat. Knowing that it was first built by the Dominican friars of the 16th century…
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Day 11~ September 11th~ Tuscany
It is in cities like Siena that the ghosts of the past remain to haunt us with the mystery of what has been as we meander in its old cobble stone streets. Can you blame them? Would you want to leave a city this beautiful?
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Day 10~ September 10th~ Tuscany
After many years of fascination and research of cathedrals, I have come to discover that these massive houses of worship were mostly constructed over generations in places that held a great historical significance. If you dig deeper into the history of cathedrals like Chartres in France and the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence,…
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Day9~ September 9th~ Tuscany
We live in a world where some of us need to be trained to protect the rest from each other. They are armed with weapons that could take away life or seriously injure any of us who decides to cause harm, take away another’s belongings, or threaten the peace by seriously misbehaving. It is almost…
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Day 8~ September 8th~ Tuscany
Real faith is spending your days building what you know you will never see completed in your lifetime.
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Day 7~ September 7th~ Tuscany
We run breathless towards adulthood only to find out that we would give anything to go back through the very same gate and reclaim the shadows of our childhood…
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Day 6~ September 6th~ Tuscany
What can demonstrate constancy more than the sun rising and setting every day of our lives? Why do we look to anything other than nature for our life lessons?