For PG, it’s always a good day to remember Florence.
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This is Santa Maria Novella, a church near the main railway station in Florence. The station is named Firenze Santa Maria Novella after the church.
Novella means new, but this church is new on a Florentine time scale. This was originally the the site of the 9th-century oratory of Santa Maria delle Vigne. Construction of the new church was begun in 1246 and completed over 100 years later. The green and white marble facade was added in 1470.
PG took this photo a few centuries thereafter.
I love the detail in the stonework!
I like it – a new church that’s been finished over 500 years before. I live in Vancouver, Canada. My country is going to celebrate its 150s birthday in a few days, and my city is even younger. New for a Vancouverite means something less than 10 years old, so your post made me smile. And the photo is gorgeous, as always.
Beautiful, as always. Is there anywhere you haven’t been that you’d like to visit with your camera, PG?
I have a lot of different destinations on my bucket list, Patricia. Some I visited before I knew anything about photography. Others I haven’t seen yet.
Here’s a partial list:
– French chateaus – Chenonceau, Chambord and more plus Mont Saint-Michel
– Just about any place in Italy with an emphasis on Tuscany
– The islands of the Aegean Sea
– The Li River in China
– Iceland
– The Oregon Coast plus Big Sur
– Almost any national park in the US
Wow. That’s quite a list. I don’t go much farther than ten miles from home these days. I don’t even get on an expressway.