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... part of one of the oldest charities in the world that is still running today, La Misericordia of Firenze. One night a month, members donate their time to transport people to nearby medical facilities whenever they are called. Back in the day this was done without cars or carriages, but by actually carrying the ill. Today, vehicles are available to ensure better service. And since all charity...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Florence, Tuscany, Italy We met up with Javy and Charles at breakfast. We decided to stroll Venice one last time before we leave for Firenze. We took more pictures of Venice during the day. It's just as lovely as it was the night before. We bid goodbye to our acquaintances. We boarded the train to Firenze. At the train station, we took a bus to our...
"Dante reserved his sharpest vitriol for the city fathers of his hometown Florence. Seven centuries on and Florence's city council is finally considering a symbolic end to the banishment by granting Dante a posthumous medal. A solid majority of council members voted last month to grant the poet the city's highest honor, the golden florin. Several leftists, though, voted 'no'."...
Ciao We left Rome yesterday and arrived in Florence or Firenze. Our hotel truly is amazing...its a cheap 2 star budget hotel that I think we nabbed for like 20 euro a night. Our room is at the top floor and it has a door to the rooftop terrace. It isnt our own terrace everyone can use it but its nice to have access to it from our room. The best part is it overlooks the Duomo which is one of
One of Firenze's all-out success story is Dusko. He was on the winning team from our first year and then "interned" with Microsoft Services over 2007 summer. 2008 Summer he is now a full-fledged Tepper MBA with a fulltime job on the Sharepoint Offerings team here at MS Services. Not only that he helped run Firenze at Tepper the second time. He has done it all :) This year he is planning...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Firenze, Italy Day 1 Hard to believe that are time in Murten is up. We really enjoyed this town. Rick Steve's stated it the best when he said the locals enjoy it the most. They could not have been more helpful. We needed a box to mail extra stuff home and we got one, even gave us a mailing label. We got perfect reservations into Italy. Had homemade brick fired...
Funny that Udayan wrote about what Firenze could mean - in his post. Perfect segue for mine, and we live in opposite sides of this continent currently and didnt even sync up on it. Back in July 2006 when I did think about this project and was looking for a name (all cool projects need a name, see), I picked up Firenze immediately. The reasoning was very simple. Firenze - as the...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Venice, Italy We arrived very very late at night and had some difficulty orienting ourselves. We stumbled across a very large cathedral before finding Albergo "Marcella" along Via Faenza. The next day we found the very same cathedral we had stumbled across of and found out that it was the Cathedral of Santa maria del Fiore. We entered it, but no pictures were taken...
What connection does all this have with Florence? Or is it more to do with an obsession with Harry Potter? Does this portend an Italian Renaissance in Microsoft!! Or just remind us that not all Centaurs were wild and unruly!! Well, I am referring to the ‘Firenze’ in Project Firenze.. If you have any ideas about the origin of this name, please do leave a comment here and enlighten us...
I was filled with anticipation as I reached the peak. I tentatively pushed a small pebble over the edge with my foot. Each second felt like an aeon as the pebble reached the ground hundreds of feet below. I looked up straight. The glistening snow on the peaks blinded me momentarily. I looked at the clouds below. A deep breath. I stepped forward and took the plunge. A moment of uncertainty and everything...
David Gilmour - Wish you were here (live firenze 2/8/06 piazza santa croce) Author: pstastis Keywords: rock david gilmour firenze piazza santa corce wish you were here pink floyd Added: July 8, 2008
