From the aristocratic Grand Tour in the 17th and 18th centuries to today’s mass tourism, Florence has attracted millions of students and amateurs of Renaissance art. Last January, a century after Miss Lucy Honeychurch’s trip* and armed not with a Baedeker’s but with a Lonely Planet travel guide, I wandered from the Piazza della Signoria to the Ponte Vecchio and strolled alongside the Arno. And it is not with a chaperone but with my sister that we explored some of the timeless treasures of Florence. I invite you to follow in our footsteps and look at the photo-album of a memorable journey into history, art and beauty (posted here below in both versions, EN and FR):

*Note: A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, adapting E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room with a View. In the first part of the novel and the film, Lucy is touring Italy with her cousin and chaperone, Miss Charlotte Bartlett.

Illustration on top of this post: The Chapel of the Magi, Palazzo Medici Riccardi (own photo).