Looking down at the city of Firenze

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The view from Piazzale Michelangelo to the south of Florence is breathtaking. Everyone and his brother thinks so! It is wonderful in February because there is room to breathe up here.

Today there was a battle in the skies. The rains of winter were being pushed out by the sunshine of spring. It was a pretty even match and neither side actually won the battle. I called it a tie.

As I left the Piazzale and was walking down to enter the Rose Garden, I happened to look back up and for the first time ever I noticed that the lookout has a special sign visible from the road below with a name I never knew even existed.

It turns out that this breathtaking view is dedicated to Franco Zefferelli. As you can see on the sign, it reads: Belvedere Franco Zeffirelli, Regista Scenografo and gives the dates of his life. In English it means “Lookout named Franco Zeffirelli, Director and Sct Designer.” Huh. Who knew?

And when I thought of Florence

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I had a beautiful quote about Florence by Marcel Proust, but with my recent WordPress issues with images, I’ve lost that photo unfortunately.

Still, Proust’s observation about Florence is so intensely suggestive and in line with my own feelings about this incredible city that I will quote it now: And when I thought of Florence, it was like a miracle city embalmed and like a corolla, because it was called the city of lilies and its cathedral, Saint Mary of the Flowers.”