Thursday we already walking to the Plaza dela Signoria the main square of Firenze (Square of the Lords). Prominent at the corner of the Palazzo Vechio (beauty palace) is a water fountain to the God Zeus, which has perpetual running water from a nearby mountain of a natural spring. The Palazzo Bechio at the entrance has two statues, copies of David, in front are the statue of Teseus decapitating to Medusa the mitological goddess who has her hair of snakes it is made of bronze, and the rapt of the Sabines.
Firenze (Florence) is the cradle of the arts in Italy, through the times was the house for famous artist like Dante Alligiery, Machiavelli, Francisco Guiordini, Boticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatelo, Michealangelo, and others. One block away runs the river Arno splitting the city that is linked by several bridges, there is one bridge more elaborated construction is called the Ponte Vechio (Beauty Bridge) it was built to link the Pitty Palace and the Palazzo Vechio, the bridge has two levels, the top is used by peasantry and the lower part for vehicles and at the sides it has stores of jewelry and artisan works, souvenirs, and leather apparel.
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