Fiesole - part 2

After seeing some of the things that Fiesole had to offer we headed over to see the views towards the south.


This first picture is actually from the town's main piazza. You can see the Florence Cathedral between the trees.


To get to a spot with an even better view you have to climb up even higher. The road was quite steep.


Here is a view towards the southeast. In the foreground you can see some olive trees and some weird modern sculpture.


This is more to the south. You can see a lot of the hillside that leads down to Florence.


This view of the southwest includes the historic area of Florence, the Duomo, and the road that leads up to Fiesole.


I guess this shot is more towards west-southwest, out towards Sesto Fiorentino then Prato. But those are too far to see.


Here is a bit of a close-up on Florence.


And a bit closer of a close-up. Brunelleschi's dome on top of the cathedral is on the left. San Lorenzo is the other dome just to the right of it. You can also kind of see the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio to the left of it.


In the middle of this picture is the stadium of ACF Fiorentina, called the Stadio Artemio Franchi. Sarah and I went with Steph (and half of the Syracuse students) to watch Fiorentina beat Roma 4-1. Sorry Steph.


We photojournalists must occasionally take up precarious positions in the service of our craft.


If you blow up this picture, already zoomed in quite far and looking towards the east, you still can't see I Tatti. The villa is kind of tucked into a valley that keeps it just out of view from Florence and Fiesole. But I think that one of the construction cranes in the picture (possibly the one on the right) might be the one that hovers above me every day at work as it is being used to build a new building on site. Getting permission to build a new building in Florence is almost impossible.


That's us.


Then we had to start the descent, which was much nicer than the ascent.