Vicenza and Juliet's Verona

Watching a concert in Vicenza

Vicenza at night

Verona's Coliseum

Walking in Verona

Juliet's famous balcony

Rome - where all roads lead to!!!

Trevi Fountain

The Coliseum  

The Capital building

Inside the Coliseum

The Forum shows Romulus's  round Temple

Wisteria at the Forum

The fabulous Pantheon

Inside the Pantheon

The Spanish Steps

Castle D'angelo at one time the Pope's summer getaway

St Peter's Basilica

The Pieta inside St Peter's - favoloso

 St. Peter's

Swiss Guards on duty at St Peter's

Tiber River with St Peter's in the background

Michael and Brittany about to order gelato at the famous Tre Scalini

Ice Bar in Rome

Coliseum at night

Florence where the Renaissance all began

Michael and Brittany in front of Ponte Vecchio

Sun bathers along the Arno River!!!

First come first serve

Typico verdure and frutte mercato

Byzantine architecture at its finest - St Annunziata

Brilliant frescos from the mid 1450's said to have started the Renaissance

Gritti Palace- home of the Medici family who encouraged the Renaissance

Il Duomo a notte

Palazzo Vecchio at Piazza Signoria

View of Florence from Piazzale  Michelangelo

Celebration of Notte Bianca - White Night to celebrate spring

Palazzo Strozzi where I had my coffee every day - much better than any Starbucks store

Dinner in Firenze- table window side

Venice - at one time the richest city in the world

St Marks square at night

A typical palace along the Grand Canal

The Bridge of Sign where prisoners were brought from the courts into the jail chambers

The Doge's Palace

View of the Grand Canal from the Bell Tower

A look at St Mark's square from above

Michael and Brittany on a gondolier

Piazza of Sienna where the famous Palio horse race is held twice a year

Beautiful architecture of the church of Sienna