Edoardo Bonechi

To my friend the Visitor First and foremost, welcome to Italy. In compiling this book, I have had the aim of taking you symbolically by the hand to guide you to the artistic and natural beauties of Italy. You will realise that this country is a succession, from one end t

FIRST ITINERARY Piazza del Duomo (Baptistry of San Giovanni; Giotto's Belltower; Loggia del Bigallo; Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore; Cathedral Museum) -Medici-Riccardi Palace (Medici Museum) - Piazza San Lorenzo (Church of San Lorenzo, Laurentian Library, Medici Chapels). Piazza del Duomo -...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FORMATION OP THE CITY: First of all the name. Why Venice? The origin of this name goes back to the time when an Indo-European population different from the Italic settled in the Venetian plains. This happened in the second millennium B.C., and, very probably, this...