Tuesday, February 9, 2010


In Verona we visited two Carlo Scarpa buildings, one being the Castel Vecchio, which is an older castel with interior renovations by Scarpa. I wanted to frolic in this building all day!

In Vicenza we got to go inside Palladio's Villa Rotonda. The plan is symmetrical and based on proportion so I made a snow angel and then was inscribed in a circle vitruvian man style!

Venice was awesome! This picture is looking back at the Campanile and Doges Palace!

We were in Bologna for half a day. We climbed the tallest tower in Italy. It was snowy and icy and they warned us not to, but we did anyway. This is a picture looking down the stairs.

Saturday, February 6, 2010


Our first stop on the Northern Italy trip was Florence! We climbed the Duomo! I saw the Caravaggio Medusa I have been wanting to see since we came last time and it was being restored. It was amazing in person. I held myself back from buying expensive leather things! I stared at the David for a while. We got to go into Michelangelo's Laurentian Library!

Friday, January 22, 2010


This is the view of Piazza Navona from our room!