User:Jahsonic/Back from Pistoia
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Arrived Friday 25 July, 2014 in Mantova.
Cimitero Monumentale di Mantova by Ernesto Pirovano.
The grotesques of Palazzo Te.
Arrived Saturday in Pistoia
Monday in Firenze: everything closed, we visited the Pietre dure museum, the botanical garden and the botanical park. We saw the Sea monsters fountains (Florence).
Tuesday: surreal Pisa and San Gimignano
Wednesday: back to Firenze
Visited Boboli gardens: what a foul stinking smell!
Visited La Specola.
Visited Uffizi (saw Frans van Mieris the Elder The Drunken Youth).
Bought Grotesques: The Painted Ceilings at the Uffizi by Cristina Acidini Luchinat.
Two days at Lago di Suviana
Look at that Batman church, I said to my children in Colmar, spotting the copper rooftop of the belltower of the St Martin's Church, Colmar, a decidedly steampunk detail of Colmar and one that makes the link with the inspiration for Howl's Moving Castle most obvious.
I read: Karakter and Zelfportret of het galgenmaal. I unsuccessfully tried to read The Name of the Rose. During the previous summer I had enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum.