Day 3 – Uffizi/Piazzale Michelangelo/San Miniato

We spent the morning at the Uffizi, Florence’s Museum of Fine Arts.

The students were really interested to learn about the paintings. Of course there were some favourites like Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Caravaggio.

We had lunch in a 900 year old Palace,very rustic and full of character with its murals of reproductions of some paintings we had just s

een in the Uffizi.

Satisfied and rested, we headed toward Piazzale Michelangelo, on the south side of the river. It is an hour’s walk along the river and up a fairly long trail, past trees, flowers and green grass and what do kids do when they see green grass? You guessed it! They had a great time rolling on the grass and forming human pyramids.

At the top of the hill we were greeted by live Indian music, stalls and street vendors and our kids

never have enough of street vendors!! The view from the top was breathta

king. We climbed further up to the Monastery of San Miniato and sat there for a while, enjoying the view. We left San Miniato at around 5.30, walked back along the river and crossed Ponte Vecchio.

We arrived at the hostel a couple of hours later, exhausted and happy.