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# Florence
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/florence/
- Published: 2007-05-10T18:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-05T18:17:16.000Z
- Description: Florence is almost too beautiful.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Florence is almost too beautiful. It is also very crowded. I've visited Florence twice, but on both occasions I failed to get into the Uffizi. The first time it was not yet possible to book a ticket online and I didn't feel like queuing for an hour and a half so I visited the Palazzo Pitti instead. The second time I had a bad case of food poisoning on the day that I'd planned to visit the Uffizi. Maybe one day I'll get a third chance. **Update**: [I finally did](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/blog/2024/10/16/uffizi-gallery/)!

![Florence](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-1.jpg)

View from the Palazzo Vecchio

![Florence](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-6.jpg)

Florence. View from the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-5.jpg)

Florence. View from the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

![Florence](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-4.jpg)

Florence. View from the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

![Florence](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-7.jpg)

Florence in black and white

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-3.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-9.jpg)

Left: Campanile di Giotto; Right: The Rape of the Sabine Women by Giambologna at the Loggia dei Lanzi

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/florence-2.jpg)

Dirty realism in Florence

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