GOOSE

yay! so today we went to ravenna, the city is about 3 hours northeast of us right on the coast. its about half ways to venice. its a cool little city. its very unique. the bus just dropped us of in the center of the city and we just kind of walked around until we hit all the spots. first we went to this one church that that had mosiacs of like 24 virgins and like 26 marters up on the ceiling. i guess i should tell you that ravenna is famous for its mosaics, they're everywhere! next a small group of us headed to the church of san vitale, if i am right this is the first centralized church i've seen here in italy, but that doesn't matter, what matters is that is was super beautiful - it had all kinds of mosaics and frescos but the coolest part of this church was the tiny little chapel outside that housed the most amazing thing that i saw today. beauty converted into mosaics, wow. the building was so small but the entire inside from about 6 feet up was covered in all mosaic. you could say i was speechless.


--the inside of the tiny chappel i mentioned.

after san vitale we had some very delcious lunch at "restaurante del mosaico." then we kind of walked all around for a long while (we even went off the map that we had! haha). on the way to the church of san francesco we hit a bookstore in which charlie and i almost bought a book on architect john pawson. man, that book rocked, too bad we didn't buy it in the end. damn. we didn't go into san francesco; as it turns out they only open in the morning hours. we did get to see Dante's tomb though (apparently he is burried in four different spots in italy, i don't know the story). it was a good day in ravenna. i'm sad i didn't take as many pictures as i wanted, my camera ran out of batteries. oh well, it was all fun. Ciao!

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