Piazzale Michelangelo Piazzale Michelangelo, Firenze

Piazzale Michelangelo is a famous square with a magnificent panoramic view of Florence, Italy, and is a popular tourist destination in the Oltrarno district of the city.

A Florentine Sunset May 22, 2013

After visiting the gardens, we were all pretty hungry. We ended up eating at a random restaurant on the south side of the Arno. I got the speciality for that night, lasagna. The lasagna was great, although, it was quite different from the lasagna that I am used to. There was no tomato sauce – it was completely cheese-based. Really good stuff though. After dinner, we made our way up to the Piazzale...

A Morning Run May 14, 2013

Before I even begin, I want to make it clear that I did not take the above photo; Ron Reznick did. In fact, I have never even seen anything of the sorts. The sunrise this morning looked more like this – oops, wrong city. No, but honestly, I think it's fair to say that given the spring Florence has had, photos like the one included above are hard to come by this year. But, we can pretend. At any rate, ever...

A View of Florence May 08, 2013

This afternoon, we had our second urban studies course with Adriano. We briefly reviewed the geography of Tuscany before bringing things into a historical context. If I have time in the near future, I will try to include some of those notes here. After the classroom lecture, we headed up to the Piazzale Michelangelo, a famous square that overlooks the city of Florence from a south mountain. The walk up the...