Friday, November 19, 2010

The Hills of Tuscany






We've been at the villa for a while and I haven't written for a while so I'm going to clump some of the time together so I can catch up.
So, Italy is amazing! The villa is in Tuscany. Tuscany is one of the provences. It has tons of hills.
I'm very glad that we came in fall. I would die with the heat in summer. Even so we eat gelato every day even if it's not hot but it's usually warm.
On top of almost every hill is a town. On the smaller hills is usually a house.
A city we went to a couple of times was Florence. A few centuries ago Florence was the capital of Italy. It also used to have a wall. A church we visited was the Basilica Di Santa Crocea. Painted on the walls there are saints and parts of the Bible. Under the church are 227 people buried. Along the walls there are tombs of some very famous people such as Michel Angelo, Gallileo, Dante the poet, and Machavilli the poletitian.
Behind the church there is a leater hop that started after World War 2. The monks of the church started it for the orphans of the war. The monks did it so the orphans would have a trade.
A lot of the buildings in Florence were damaged in the huge flood in 1966. The church included.
Another time we went to Florence we went shopping for leather. Florence has very famous leather.

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