My Trip In Florence

Porta Del Paradiso Del Ghiberti In 1401, a competition was announced by the Arte di Calimala to design doors which would eventually be placed on the north side of the baptistry.Ghiberti won the competition for the first set of bronze doors."The Gates of Paradise" is a major monument of the age of Renaissance humanism.You can find this amazing gates inside the "Museo dell'Opera del Duomo"	Porta del Paradiso It took Ghiberti 21 years to complete these doors. These gilded bronze doors consist of twenty-eight panels, with twenty panels depicting the life of Christ from the New Testament. The eight lower panels show the four evangelists and the Church Fathers Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine. Here is a picture of the copy is now placed in the baptistry.	Dante Alighieri Dante was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His "Divine Comedy" is a masterpiece of world literature. You can admire his statue infrond of the "Santa Croce"
Perseus & Medusa Benvenuto Cellini's famous statue located in "Logia dei Lanzi" in the Piazza della Singoria	The Clock Tower - Pallazo Vecchio In 1299 the people of Florence desided to build this magnifisend palace. Pallazo Vecchio is today the town Hall. Overlooking the "Piazza della Signoria" with the breathtaking copy of Mighelangelo's "David" it's one of the most recognised puplic places in Italy. The large one-handed clock was originally constracted by the florentine Nicolo Bernato , but was replaced in 1667 by a clock made by Vincenzo Viviani.	Michelangelo's David David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504.Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome. The statue was moved to the Accademia Gallery in Florence in 1873.
The Bargello Museum The Bargello, also known as the Bargello Palace or Museo Nazionale del Bargello is a former barracks and prison, now an art museum, in Florence, Italy.The original two-story structure was built alongside the Volognana Tower in 1256. The third story, which can be identified by the smaller blocks used to construct it, was added after the fire of 1323. The building is designed around an open courtyard with an external staircase leading to the second floor.	Gellato Gelato is the Italian word for ice cream. In English it generally refers to varieties of ice cream made in a traditional Italian style. Gelato is made with milk, cream, various sugars, and flavoring such as fresh fruit and nut purees. Gelato is a type of soft ice cream containing a relatively small amount of air.