Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/

The baptistery in the foreground, with the campanile and dome behind it.

I climbed this! This is the bell tower at Santa Maria del Fiore. There are great views from the top (287 ft high, 416 steps to the top).

Taken in Firenze, Toscana, Italia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy). January 2008.

Milan, Italy

the gothic architecture of this building was stunning!

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A look up the dome of the Florence cathedral.

Part of the Tuscany 2014 set.

Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/

"last judgment" frescoes by vasari inside brunelleschi's dome of the duomo [cathedral of santa maria dei fiori]

Cefalu, Sicily

A statue of a pope with a strange animated animal hat.

Part of the Tuscany 2014 set.

Meri Amber explored a castle, made a custom magnum and discovered local delis on her third day in Italy during her Uku Italia trip. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/third-day-in-italy/

Catedral de Florencia.

castello sforzesco

Statues of the Popes, Santa Maria del Fiore, il Duomo, Florence, Firenza, Italy,Florence, Firenza, Italy,

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Duomo di Milano.

Milano, Italia.

Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/

Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/

Dome of Il Duomo, Florence, Italy

Candles in Il Duomo, Milan, Italy

Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence, Tuscany, Italy - June 2010

A look down from the Piazzale Michelangelo at the city and the three main attractions, archtecturally speaking. From left to right: The Ponte Vecchio, the Palazzo Vecchio and the Cathedral.

Part of the Tuscany 2014 set.

Duomo di Siena, the Cathedral of Siena.

In the middle of the Chapel of Saint John the Baptistis a 15th c. baptismal font.

Siena, Il Duomo

The inlaid marble mosaic floor is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, covering the whole floor of the cathedral. This undertaking went on from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, and about forty artists made their contribution.

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Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/

A look at the exterior of the Baptistery of San Giovanni.