September 17, 2018
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| View From Piazzale Michelangelo |
There are some moments that can only be described as perfect. Watching the sunset in the Piazzale Michelangelo was one of those moments.
The Piazzale Michelangelo is renowned for being the best vantage point in Florence because it is up the hill on the Oltrarno and offers an unobstructed view of the Arno, the Ponte Vecchio, the Duomo, and the Palazzo Vecchio. It was a hike to get up there, especially considering that Witten fell asleep in the stroller and my dad and I had to “princess carry” her up flight after flight of stairs. Yet it was all worth it.
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| Overlooking Florence |
We found a spot on the rail right at the edge of the Piazzale as the colors started to come in. As we stood there, sipping large Peroni, watching the Tuscan sun fall below the horizon, a street guitarist bellowed out an outstanding rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. The brisk night air and the serenity of it all made time stand still, if only for an hour.
After the sun had set, we meandered back to the hotel, but stopped at a restaurant in the Oltrarno first. It’s one of those places that I couldn’t tell you the name of if I tried. The restaurant that I wanted to go to was a little spot with two tables inside and two small tables outside, all of which were full. So we just popped into the next good looking restaurant that we saw. It could not have been more quintessentially Italian. Brick walls, arches, and ceilings; small wooden tables and chairs; candlelight flickering over classical white tablecloths. I did something that I’d been talking about doing our whole time in Florence - I got a Florentine T-Bone steak. That is, after all, what Florence is known for, the grill and particularly giant, grilled steaks. It was totally worth it!
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