San Giovanni Duomo

This is the city of Florence, I called this place home from May 16th until July 10th. Florence (Firenze) is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance and is the pulse of Tuscany. During the Renaissance out of the 1000 of the most important artists in Europe at least five hundred of them lived and worked here in this most magnificent place on the Arno River. Brunelleschi's cupola, is probably the most photographed structure in all of Italy. Influenced by Roman archictecture and the pantheon, Brunelleschi's cupola is an engineering marvel. Over 500 stairs to climb to the top of the cupola and I did it twice.