- The Academia Gallery
- St. Lorenzo's Church
The Academia Gallery
Today we went to the Academia Gallery which holds many famous objects and paintings like the statue of David. As we walked in we turned the corner and we saw the most famous statue in the world. Yep, we just saw the statue of David. Supposedly the most beautiful statue in the world. If you look at David closely he looks brave from one angle but scared from another. I think that Michelangelo, when he carved it, meant the brave angle to be after David had defeated the giant and the scared angle was before he did. I will now tell you the story of David and Goliath.
Once upon a time there was a giant named Goliath who was terrorizing the town. No one was brave enough to defeat him. But, a poor little Shepard boy named David would. God was proud of this boy and possessed him. So a little shepherd boy, with only a slingshot over his shoulder, and a rock in his hand, set out to kill the giant. So, David, powered by God defeated the giant.
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The weather in Florence has been a bit rainy at times.
This picture below is actually a copy of David because the real David was damaged while it was standing in this exact spot during a riot in the 1500s. They fixed the real David and put him in the Academia
St. Lorenzo's church
We visited this church because in English St Lorenzo means St Lawrence (aka St Daddy). When we got inside we saw a huge room with another domed room off to the left. In the domed room we discovered that Lorenzo Medici's coffin was is the middle of the room. The dome had glass in the top so that when the sun streamed through the light was in the exact middle of the coffin. The Medicis are a famous family in Italy and in fact all of their bodies were buried in the church.
You wouldn't guess this but even though you may think we didn't do much, at the end of the day I was extremely tired. That night I could hear the Florence church bells ringing in my ears as I went off to sleep.
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