I’m getting further and further behind, I’m afraid, so you’ll just have to keep coming back to check for updates…
This will be a (relatively 😜) short post, as it will only cover the morning of the day we left Orvieto and trained to Florence in the afternoon. We had decided the night before that Orvieto’s cathedral was worth a visit inside, and if we went fairly early, we might beat the crowds. It really is quite the exquisite piece of ecclesiastical architecture, from the amazing mosaics on the facade to the stunning frescoes & stained glass windows, with their thin slices of marble in their lower sections (which I’d never seen before)…
There was a anteroom off the main part of the cathedral with breathtaking frescoes covering every square centimeter…
Still reeling from seeing all that beauty, we were glad to head back to our hotel, pick up our bags, and head to the train station. One last fun detail: we got to take a funicular down from the top of rock to the station at the bottom. Here’s a shot of that, looking back up from the bottom:
After we arrived in Florence, we found our hotel and settled in for three days of museums and galleries. Get ready for a lot of photos of art, coming right up!
