Finney’s Fun (and life events) “Blog”

  • Tuscany 2.0 RSJ PART 2

    Monday we started at the Medici museum/chapel. https://bargellomusei.it/en/museum/cappelle-medicee/ more The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family that played a major role in Italian Renaissance. This is the burial place of the Medici family, the Cappelle Medicee(Medici Chapels) is national monument and museum. It features the “Sagrestia Nuova”, whose architecture and sculptures are by Michelangelo.…

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  • Tuscany 2.0 RSJ Part 1

    We started off our 7 day Tuscany 2.0 trip on Friday morning by meeting the group of 24 in Florence. We had lunch in Florence and shopped for a few hours. We went to the leather school (Scuola Del Cuoio). It is in a 14th century monastery which started after World War II to teach…

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  • Tuscany part 2!

    Tuscany Part 2🇮🇹 Buongiorno 🇮🇹 6th day— We headed out to go see the local silversmith I’Argenteno Firenze. His wife and Annagloria are very good friends. He makes things out of sheets of silver or those little beads of silver. It was very interesting. The afternoon we could choose what we wanted to do and…

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