ITALY’12 A TRAVEL TO REMEMBER
Travelling
is something that I love, but the trip 2012 to Italy was really different from
the others. It felt like time stopped,
because we were in a different environment, but with the same people, and so we
got our minds off studying and we had time to know each other better.
During the
trip we did some cultural journeys where we visited the most important sights
of each city or village. First of all, I’m going to describe the best places
that we had seen
On the first day we visited the
Tower of Pisa and some of us went to the Baptistery. After, we visited Lucca, a
beautiful village where we biked around it. Next day, we visited Florence, the Galeria dels Uffizzi, Santa Maria Novella,
and the Galeria de l’Academia.
I particularly liked some paintings
that we saw, because in History of Art we studied some of them. Though in
Florence, the thing that impressed me the most was the Church of San Lorenzo.
The reason is that I have worked on this and it was really interesting to see
that monument. It was bigger than I had imagined.
The following day we went to San
Gimigniano. We visited the village and some people went to the Museum of
Torture, which was really impressive. There we saw the terrible things that
they used to do to people. It had a huge effect to me and my friends, because
they used to torture people in horrible and dreadful ways. Afterwards, we went
to Siena to visit the Plaça del Campo,
Palau Públic and its important cathedral. I didn’t like it a lot, because
it was decorated too much and with strange colours.
In Padua we saw Capella Scrovegni, we were really interested because we had studied
it in class and we knew the meaning of fresco painting. After that we went to
Venice, the city of love. Like the other cities we
visited the most important things, but for me the trip with Gondolas was awesome.
The end of our trip was coming with
the visits of Verona and Milano. We visited the house of Julieta and l’Arena in Verona, the cathedral of
Milano, and we bought the last souvenirs.
I would like to conclude by saying
that for me all these days were special and different; each day had good and
bad moments but I’ll always remember all the moments as good (the laughs, the excellent ice-creams,
the nights in the hotel and in the discotheque, the long queues, the arguments,
the “punishment” of 1 €…). I felt in love with Italy.
Ariadna Cots
2n batx A
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