Fiesole

The weather this past week has been very Spring-like: sunny and in the 50s. Yesterday we made good use of the fine weather with a picnic in Fiesole, a town on top of a couple hills overlooking Florence. Being only about about 8km away we were able to reach Fiesole via city bus, which we shared on the way down with a big pack of extremely obnoxious American study abroad students...

This hilly Etruscan town is pretty darn old, probably founded in 800BC. Florence, its younger brother, was founded by the Romans around 60BC. So, there were some really neat archeological sites, as well as some great views (though hazy) from high above Florence.

Downtown Fiesole

Hard to see much, but we could at least still make out the (Florentine) Duomo

Church of S. Francesco (14th century)

Lunch!

Seth really liked this compact and well-kept cemetery Roman and Etruscan ruins