Day-to-day Florence is crowded with Tourists. Every street is polluted with people pushing and trying to make their way to the next land-mark or nearest cafe'.
However, the city is so beautiful after midnight.
The Cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore, The Baptistery standing alone with its large bronzed doors- engraved with scenes from the Bible, and the Belltower- towering over both monuments- note: tower, are illuminated in the Piazza del Duomo at night, without a sound or sign of civilization.
It was then that I took in the beauty of the buildings for the first time without the distraction of hoards of people.
We crossed the gold-ridden Ponte Vecchio, the first bridge built in Florence across the Arno river, and visited the Piazza della Signoria. Not far from was The Uffizi Museum- which after less than a third way through the largely Renaissance gallery each painting of The Virgin Mary started to resemble the last.
I was however fortunate enough to see Botticelli's Birth of Venus and his Primavera, traces of gold revealed along every drapery, two of his many delicate and graceful paintings.
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