Santo Spirito and Michelangelo Piazzale Photo Gallery by Wilma Woodchuck at pbase.com

Santo Spirito and Michelangelo Piazzale

A quick bus ride to the other side of the Arno to check out the Santo Spirito Church and Piazza Market then a walk to Porta Roma to catch another bus up to the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte, San Salvatore al Monte Church and the Piazzale Michelangelo before hiking down the hill past Fontane della Rampe del Poggi to Porta San Niccolo and the bus home!

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Porta Romana with a controversial modern marble statue of two women, named Dietro-Front or Turnabout, was erected in the circle	San Miniato al Monte stairway-refered to as Jacob's Ladder since the Abbey warns the traveler this is the Gate to Heaven	Cemetery starts at San Miniato about 3 quarters of the way up the stairs	Amazing view of Florence from San Miniato
I made it to the top- barely	San Miniato-Hilltop, 11th-century (1013) church with a gleaming Romanesque facade, medieval interiors & city views	Cemetary vault area at top	Inside San Miniato-St. Miniatus the first martyr in Florence, beheaded during Emperor Decius's anti-Christian persecutions
Georgous vaulted ceiling- looked really Viking like to me	Really close up of the ceiling- not my picture, stolen from the webs	San Miniato al Monte wall frescos	San Miniato's center nave is dominated by the beautiful Cappella del Crocefisso , designed by Michelozzo in 1448

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