Friday, August 30, 2013

Lucca

Hey all 
Yesterday we took an hour train ride to a small walled city called lucca. The city was full of beautiful art and buildings and full of many many stairs I counted approximately how many steps we climbed and got over 1000 stairs! Just as an FYI the pictures are out of order because some are from mom's phone and some are from mine.
This is the view from the top of torre guinigi a tower with several trees on top

Here Kendall and I are looking down the cities renaissance walls
Kendall examining a French symbol on the side of a wall
Here is a view of torre guinigi from the bell tower
Here we are on the train

Now start my pictures. This is a view down the walls down to the ground
Here mom gram and Kendall are all enjoying their lunch on the wall
This is the staircase down from the bell tower which has 207 steps in it total
This is the towns clock tower
Here is a view of the cities red roofs from the top o one of the towers
Here is a patern created by the stained glass in San martins cathedral
These are the striped pillars on San martins cathedral
This is mom gram and Kendall just outside the city walls

All in all a great day in Lucca

-Joel

3 comments:

  1. I learned from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca) that it was the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini, among others. I love the picture of you and Kendall overlooking the walls, and that's a great picture of the four of you on the Torre Guinigi!

    Looks like a fun day. Love to all!...

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  2. Joel, GREAT description of a beautiful city! The steps should be no problem by now ... you're used to climbing! Loved the stained glass pattern - that's the kind of photo I like to take. Kendall is tracing a labyrinth, of the Medieval type - there's a famous one in Chartres Cathedral like that - if anyone's interested, check out the Labyrinthos website. You all look happy, how nice! Molte grazie!

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