{"id":179102,"date":"2017-09-19T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=179102"},"modified":"2017-10-01T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T00:29:37","slug":"the-duomo-museum-and-the-medici-riccardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2017\/09\/19\/the-duomo-museum-and-the-medici-riccardi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duomo Museum and the Medici Riccardi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yet another late start – it’s become standard, we get up and eat a leisurely breakfast and then go out for the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Today Aviva and I went to the Duomo Museum, which has been complete remodeled. It is now really modern and wonderful, they’ve got a multi-floor model of the Duomo showing key sculptures.<\/p>\n

Then we split up, she went shopping for jewelry and I went to the Medici Riccardi and a couple anime \/ hobby shops. The Medici Riccardi houses the Chapel of the Magi<\/a>, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, which is a must-see in my book if you visit Florence. It’s one room and it’s a complete show-stopper.<\/p>\n

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Yet another late start – it’s become standard, we get up and eat a leisurely breakfast and then go out for the afternoon. Today Aviva and I went to the Duomo Museum, which has been complete remodeled. It is now really modern and wonderful, they’ve got a multi-floor model of the Duomo showing key sculptures. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[680,77,143],"tags":[2425],"class_list":["post-179102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florence-italy-travel","category-italy","category-travel-foreign","tag-italy2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t