We have been busy with the towns to the north - Parma, Modena, Mantova, Ferrara, and have neglected Florence. We've only been there once this winter, so caught the train there the other day, with a view to revisiting the Uffizi gallery. Good Friday, as it happened, so, together with the fine weather, it was a popular place to be!
Not too many people, but the queue at the Uffizi was long, even for those who had reserved, so we just had an enjoyable lunch and a stroll around and a few purchases at the leather stalls at the market.
Along the way, I photographed some of the ubiquitous "ferri" - iron hooks attached to the walls of the buildings to tie up the horses in days of yore ...
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| It was busier than it looks! |
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A private palazzo beautifully decorated in chiaroscuro -
spotted in a street we have walked down many times without noticing it |
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| Bill tucks into a bowl of ribollita - a "hearty peasant soup"! |
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| We didn't try the lampredotto - a Florentine specialty - boiled tripe made, unusually, of the fourth stomach of the cow, and having slightly(!) unappetising livid purple colour ... |
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| The ferri range from very simple ... |
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| ... to slightly more elaborate ... |
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| ... to full-blown wrought-iron sculptures |
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