One month in Florence with a pocket sketchbook (4)

[by Javier de Blas in Florence, Italy]  Nov/9th-12ve. “Trippa” is a very typical food in Toscana. Specially in the market places there are these little stalls where people go for a break. It´s funny: Florentians are quite refined people but, at the same time, you find very country ways like this food or when they pronounce “h” for “c”, like when they say “hasa” instead of “casa”.

Piazza Santa Croze is a very beautiful settled square where there is the so known church withe the statue of Dante at the entrance.

The church of Ognisanti is open on mondays. A splendid Gioto´s cricifixe is inside. Outside, at Piazza Ognisanti there I find a beautiful silhouette of Santa Maria del Carmine, in Oltrarno area, on the other side of river Arno. Near by the piazza, in Via Palazzuolo, 17, there is a smal place caalled “La Boutique” where you find the best expresso in Florence, napolitan way (for 1 euro!).

On 12th we travel to Lucca, a beautiful town 1 hour far from Florence. I rest for a while inside the cloister of convent San Francesco. I admire the italian good test, once more; these kind of composition, so simple, so succesful.

We have lunch at Piazza Anfiteatro, an old roman monument converted in a charming neighborhood circus with terrace bars all around.