Public marks with tag "sight seeing" Public marks with tag "sight seeing" http://blogmarks.net/marks/tag/sight seeing Around the World in 80 Days: A Travel Blog by Conde Nast Traveler at Concierge.com http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/80days/2007/05/respect_from_th.html Things started going wrong for Florence about a thousand years ago, when a very important man named Hugo--a margrave, no less--decided he wanted to live in Florence instead of the then capital, Lucca, a decision which brought on a period known as The Golden Age of Florentine Art. Half a millennium later, A guy named Lorenzo di Medici started running the show and throwing serious money at local artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci (best known for his thrilling novel, "The Da Vinci Code") and Botticelli. Pretty soon, all the talk was about Florence: The architecture! The paintings! The sculptures! The ravioli! 2007-05-15T15:12:44Z wiredsetman concierge, 80, conciergedotcom, blog, web, travel, schatzker, mark, bust, OR, days, conde, video, journey, sight seeing, Florence, italy, packing, suitcase, car, york, new, angeles, los, london, chicago, food, tech, boat, continents, trip, net, nast

Around the World in 80 Days: A Travel Blog by Conde Nast Traveler at Concierge.com

by wiredsetman

Things started going wrong for Florence about a thousand years ago, when a very important man named Hugo--a margrave, no less--decided he wanted to live in Florence instead of the then capital, Lucca, a decision which brought on a period known as The Golden Age of Florentine Art. Half a millennium later, A guy named Lorenzo di Medici started running the show and throwing serious money at local artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci (best known for his thrilling novel, "The Da Vinci Code") and Botticelli. Pretty soon, all the talk was about Florence: The architecture! The paintings! The sculptures! The ravioli!

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