Chapter 1664: The City of Flowers in the Rain
After visiting the Municipal Square, Ye Tian and the others walked into the Vicchio Palace, that is, the Old Palace, and began to visit this ancient palace that was built in the early 14th century.
It is an ancient palace with intact defenses, once the residence of the Medici family and later the Florentine City Hall, the political center of Florence.
In modern times, the old palace is still in use, but it has been turned into a fully open museum for visitors to visit.
The façade of this historic palace still retains its medieval style, giving it a sense of weathered vicissitudes, like an old medieval castle.
Its interior decoration and decoration also maintain the appearance of the Renaissance, and the famous architect Vasari who is responsible for decorating this ancient palace is in charge of the late Renaissance.
He blended the exaggerated frescoes depicting the achievements of the Florentines into the building, and the interior of this ancient palace was a breathtaking sight.
The palace itself alone is a rare piece of top-notch antique art, invaluable, highly researched, and famous in the history of architecture.
Inside this ancient palace, there are also many top antique artworks on display, each of which is very valuable, radiating brilliant light and charming artistic charm.
The most famous of these is Michelangelo's large fresco, 'Victory', which flanks the walls of the Grand Council of the Republic on the second floor of the palace, adding a touch of elegance to the Hall of 500.
In addition, there are frescoes by Bronzino, sculptures by Donatello, and frescoes from the Roman Heroes series by Kilandaio, to name a few, and a variety of top-quality antique artworks!
Every name that appears here is like thunder, radiating a dazzling light in the history of Western art, and they are all the top masters of the Renaissance.
After visiting the Vecchio Palace, it was close to half past eleven in the morning, and Ye Tian and his party went to visit the old bridge, which is also known as the Vicchio Bridge.
This is the oldest bridge in Florence, built in 1345 as a two-storey building that used to be the corridor leading from the Uffizi Palace to Palazzo Pitti across the bank.
Straddling both sides of the Arno River, the Pont Vecchio is a beautiful and romantic old bridge with its early Renaissance architecture.
Unlike other bridges, which are covered with buildings, the buildings on the Pont Vecchio are lined up on two sides and extend outwards above the Arno River, with the main passage in the middle of the bridge unobstructed.
In this way, people walking on the bridge can look up and see the sky, and the raindrops that fall from the sky will naturally fall on the stone path on the bridge deck and then flow into the Arno River.
When Ye Tian and the others stepped on the Vicchio Bridge, the sky was still drizzling, constantly hitting the umbrella cover, the roofs of the buildings on the bridge, and the calm surface of the Arno River under the bridge.
At this moment, when they walk on this ancient bridge with umbrellas, they can't help but have the illusion of walking through the Renaissance, which is very interesting.
However, this good feeling soon faded.
Within a few steps of the bridge, they saw a large number of shops, lined on both sides of the middle passage, completely occupying the old early Renaissance style buildings on both sides.
Like most tourist areas, these are specialty shops selling specialty products from Florence and the surrounding area, as well as jewellery and luxury shops, and they are all doing well and with a lot of people!
But for Ye Tian and them, seeing such a scene on such a beautiful and romantic ancient bridge is still a little unsightly and spoiling.
This is not the end, there are more beautiful things, in the old bridge to visit the flow of people, mixed with a lot of thieves waiting for the opportunity to commit theft, one by one thieves.
For these thieves, the narrow and crowded Ponte Vecchio is undoubtedly the most ideal place for them to commit crimes, and a treasure place for them to make a fortune.
The sheer number of specialty shops, as well as jewellery and luxury stores, makes it easy for them to tell that tourists have a lot of cash in their pockets and are fat sheep to be slaughtered.
From the moment he walked on the old bridge of Vecchio until he walked through this old bridge with a short span, during this time, Ye Tian witnessed at least eight or nine thefts with his own eyes.
As long as he saw the theft of Chinese tourists, he reminded the ignorant Chinese tourists and stopped the thieves from stealing, without exception.
As for the other thefts, he didn't bother to deal with them, and chose to turn a blind eye, and he didn't care whether the rest of the foreigners were unlucky.
Although the famous Uffizi Gallery is right next to Ponte Vecchio, it's a stone's throw away.
However, after visiting the Ponte Vecchio, Ye Tian and the others did not immediately enter the Uffizi Gallery to visit, but went to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Giotto's bell tower not far away.
The Uffizi Gallery is a temple of art, with works by many of the masters of the Renaissance, as well as works by representatives of various other schools.
In addition, there are many sculptures from ancient Rome and Greece, and for art lovers, the Uffizi Gallery is the most magnificent wonder of Florence, the 'City of Flowers'.
As a top antique art expert and professional treasure hunter, for Ye Tian, the Uffizi Gallery cannot be missed, which is the main purpose of his visit to Florence!
And such a top-notch art palace will definitely take a lot of time to visit and savor it, so that it is worth the trip.
Ye Tian plans to visit the Uffizi Gallery tomorrow to enjoy the top antique artworks displayed here and feel the charm of many Renaissance masters.
As part of his plan, he plans to spend a day or two in the Uffizi Gallery to see as many of the top antiques on display as possible.
Even then, it was only a superficial sight, and under normal circumstances, he would only be able to see a small part of the Uffizi Gallery's collection.
Like the Met and the Louvre, most of the top antiques in the Uffizi Gallery are not on display, but are housed in warehouses.
What's more, Ye Tian and they had a limited time in Florence and would soon have to leave here.
You must know that the Uffizi Gallery has a total of 45 exhibition halls, up to 100,000 pieces of collections, where to see it in a day or two, you can only choose some of the best parts to appreciate.
Fortunately, Ye Tian has the ability to see through everything and can see through everything, and the top antique artworks in the Uffizi Gallery that are not on public display cannot escape his eyes.
As long as he wants, he can secretly open the perspective and get an unobstructed view of the Uffizi Museum's collection, and maybe there will be a surprising surprise!
The same is true of the Pitti Palace, which is across the river from the Uffizi Art Museum, although it is close at hand, Ye Tian and the others did not immediately go to visit it.
It's also a museum open to the public, with works by top artists such as Raphael, Rubens, Van Dyck, and more, and he plans to visit it on his last day.
Once you've visited Palazzo Pitti, it's time to leave Florence and head to Milan.
Of course, there is a premise here, that is, there is no unexpected time to disrupt the established arrangement.
However, things often backfire.
After leaving the Vicchio Old Bridge, Ye Tian and the others held umbrellas, laughed and chatted, and walked along the ancient streets of Florence towards the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore not far away.
As they crossed the Plaza della Signoria again, had just stepped onto the elegant Calchaioli Road, and had walked about thirty or forty meters forward, Cole's voice suddenly came through the headphones.
"Steven, those scum of the Casa Monica family followed, just twenty meters behind, mixed in the flow of people, led by Tony, a total of seven people, obviously with bad intentions.
How do we deal with those mafia scumbags? Leave it to the Italian policemen in civilian clothes in the back, or do we deal with it ourselves? The snipers we have set up have already locked up those idiots!"
Hearing this, a grim smile immediately appeared at the corner of Ye Tian's mouth.
Since you idiots don't know whether to live or die, and insist on coming here to seek death, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless, wash your neck and prepare to go to hell!