Inside the Santa Croce Church were a few interesting tombs. The first one was Machiavelli

This is Michelangelo’s tomb

This is Galileo's tomb. I wonder how he would feel about that hundreds of years later

Near the nave of Santa Croce Church

A picture of Santa Croce Church at the height of the 1966 flood

The side of Santa Croce church standing in front of Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel

In front of the Baptistry with the Duomo in the background

The Medici Palace

Porcellino ("little pig") is actually a wild boar. People rub and give coins to insure their return to Florence. It's the Florentine equivalent to Rome's Trevi Fountain .

Me at the Golden View Open Bar in front of Ponte Vecchio

Diane at the same restaurant in front of the Uffizi

Adam and Eve being cast from the Garden of Eden in the Brancacci Chapel

The massive dome ceiling inside the Duomo

A close up of the ceiling. My new 12.5x Panasonic zoom did an excellent job here

Donatello's wooden statue of Mary Magdalene