{"id":157,"date":"2014-08-02T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2015-06-28T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T07:23:10","slug":"florence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=157","title":{"rendered":"Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where to begin &#8211; is there any city more beautiful or more steeped in artistic endeavour?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would like to explore the <a title=\"Churches\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=286\">churches<\/a>, palaces, museums, piazzas, monuments and streets of this wonderful place. Eventually, perhaps, I will also examine that which has been described as genius and civil ferocity, intimately meshed &#8211; its\u00a0politics and history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I will visit such places as the beautiful <a title=\"The Boboli Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=162\">Boboli Gardens<\/a>\u00a0with the magical\u00a0<a title=\"Buontalenti\u2019s Grotto\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=240\">Grotto of Buontalenti<\/a>, follow\u00a0Vasari&#8217;s Corridor in both direction and conception, and admire the work of fantastic characters, such as master goldsmith, sculptor, musician, story teller and warrior, Benvenuto\u00a0Cellini.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Emilys-Ponte-Vecchio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-277 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Emilys-Ponte-Vecchio-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Emilys-Ponte-Vecchio-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/leebraden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Emilys-Ponte-Vecchio-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Cray&#8217;s magnificent photo of the Ponte Vecchio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This lovely\u00a0photograph reveals Vasari&#8217;s corridor in its most recognisable section &#8211; abreast the Ponte Vecchio<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Take a short cut here to visit some of the delights of Florence:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a title=\"The Boboli Gardens\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=162\">The Boboli Gardens<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a title=\"Ghiberti\u2019s Golden Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=645\">The Gates of Paradise<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a title=\"Giotto\u2019s Campanile\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=921\">Giotto&#8217;s Campanile<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a title=\"Museums &amp; Galleries\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=996\">Florentine Museums &amp; Galleries<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a title=\"The Ponte Vecchio\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=1324\">The Ponte Vecchio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A grand selection of <a title=\"Churches\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=286\">Chapels &amp; Basilicas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Back to: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/\">Tuscany<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Site Map\" href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=388\"><em><strong>\u00a0Site Map<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where to begin &#8211; is there any city more beautiful or more steeped in artistic endeavour? I would like to explore the churches, palaces, museums, piazzas, monuments and streets of this wonderful place. Eventually, perhaps, I will also examine that which has been described as genius and civil ferocity, intimately meshed &#8211; its\u00a0politics and history. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/?page_id=157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158,"parent":154,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/2507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leebraden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}