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Visiting Santa Trinita (Holy Trinity Church), Florence

The highlight of this church, which is just 2 blocks down a narrow sidestreet from the Ponte Vecchio bridge, is the Sassetti chapel......

Visiting The Hermitage Museum - Part 2 - The Winter Palace and Hermitage

The Winter Palace is the "main facade" of the Hermitage Museum complex (the long building on the left, above). You walk 'through' the 3...

Visiting the Hermitage Museum - Part 1 - Modern Art (The General Staff Building)

The Hermitage collection is unbelievably large. To paraphrase their guidebook, with over 3 million items in their collection and several...

Visiting the Brera Picture Gallery, Milan

The Brera Picture Gallery in Milan Lives in a building that dates back centuries. I looked up the history of the building and can’t tell...

Visiting The Alte Pinakothek - Munich, Germany

This is one of the oldest museums in the world and is home to a fantastic collection of Old Master paintings by Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck,...

Visiting the Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Milan, Italy

Billed as, “The worlds largest collection of works by Leonardo da Vinci,” we couldn’t wait to get to this show. We visited the first day...

Visiting The Rubenshuis, Antwerp

We Called the Rubenshuis, it's a 'recreation' of what his home might have looked like (on the inside), but built in his actual home,...

Visiting Leonardo's Last Supper in Milan

One important thing I can tell you upfront about visiting The Last Supper in Milan is that you must book your tickets weeks, if not...

Visiting The Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

You’ve got to love a free museum and this is, if nothing else, a free museum (like most of the museums in the UK worth their salt)! Not...

Visiting The Sforza Castle, Milan

The Sforza Castle in Milan is one of those places I’d heard about for decades before finally visiting. Famously the home of Ludovico...

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