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THREE-HOUR GUIDED TOUR OF FLORENCE (WALKING TOUR)
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THREE-HOUR GUIDED TOUR OF FLORENCE
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DURATION: | 3 hours | |
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PRICE: | 180 EURO | |
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AVAILABILITY: |
All-year-round | |
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THE PRICE INCLUDES: |
Local Expert Guide (only for You) for 3 hours in Florence THE ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED
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Meeting with the tour guide in the prearranged meeting-point, which can be changed according to guests requirements:
Together with our expert guide you will visit the beautiful centre of Florence. You can admire one of the most important cities of architecture and art. You’ll visit the octagonal Baptistery (external visit) that is a beautiful example of the Florentine Romanesque style from the 11th and 12th centuries.
Then the Duomo (internal visit) that was finished in 1436 and the façade was redone in neo-Gothic style hundreds of years later. After the Bell Tower (external visit) You’ll reach Piazza della Signoria , a beautiful example of medieval architecture, the L-shaped square is flanked by the Palazzo Vecchio on the east side and and the famous Loggia della Signoria on the south. At the corner of the Palazzo Vecchio You’ll find the Fountain of Neptune that was built by the architect Ammannati in 1575.
By walking You’ll arrive on the Old Bridge, this symbol of the city of Florence offers beautiful views and thrives with shops selling leather goods, jewlery and other commodities. At the end You’ll visit inside the Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) where You can admire the final resting places of many notable Renaissance figures.
Florence offers many places to visit, but the distances from a monument to another permit to discover the centre by walk and you are able to enjoy better the small streets, the houses and the squares that keep intact the flavour of art and history.
Take water, camera & sun cream; wear comfortable shoes. In low season warmer clothing may be required!
THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
OPENING HOURS OF THE BASILICA OF THE HOLY CROSS:
- Weekdays: 09.30 – 17.30
- Sundays and Sundays and holy days of obligation (Feast of the Epiphany, Feast of the Assumption, All Saints’ Day, Feast of the Immaculate Conception): 13.00 – 17.30
- Easter Monday, April 25, May 1, June 2: 09.30 – 17.30
- Last Entrance: 17.00
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
Leaving the Forum now and heading along Via del Foro to the corner of Via della Fortuna, we find the Temple of Fortuna Augusta built at the expense of Marcus Tullius, a relative of the famous orator Cicero. This benefactor, an eminent citizen of Pompeii and twice Duumvir in the Augustan age, even went so far as to create the position of minister of the cult. The temple consequently acquired a political connotation, which was spread through the diffusion of the imperial cult. Hence whenever a new emperor succeeded to the throne, the ministers immediately had a statue build and placed in the temple along with a stone slab to commemorate the event. This fairly small bu ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 4, 5, 4) Ingredients:
- 1 kg firm ripe apricots or nectarines
- 200 ml white wine
- 250 ml Passum
- peppermint tea bag (portion for one cup)
- ground pepper
- Liquamen or salt
- cornstarch
- a little bit of vinegar
- honey
Instructions:
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Wash, cut and stone apricots. Put them with a little cold water in a pan.
Pulverize ground pepper and dried mint (that's where the tea bag comes handy),
add Liquamen or salt, honey, Passum, wine and vinegar. Pour into the pan with a
little oil. Cook approximately 20 minu ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.