February 12, 2009

visited San Lorenzo church with my Architecture in Italy class. I've explored the area around the church a lot because I was originally going to do a project in the piazza it faces, but I'd never been inside before. Three different tourist companies control the church, so you would have to pay for three different tickets to see everything. We only did one section, but we got to see the basement under the dome where a bunch of works of art are kept, the dome itself, and the new sacristy which was designed by Michelangelo. The sacristy was really cool, because it wasn't as gaudy as most churches, chapels, etc. and one little section was never finished so we could still see where Michelangelo sketched out the design on the wall.
went to Italian and studio..... the usual.
had family dinner over at the other boys' place and then went out to a couple different pubs. We found this one called Rex that's really cool inside. On the back wall it has a giant map of the world. It's a little inaccurate but it's all textured and three-dimensional with little lights shining around the borders of land masses.