Italy history trip

Venice And the Renaissance of Florence

The travelers arrived in Venice Sunday afternoon 8th April. The canal city welcomed our curiosities, bars for espresso coffee, gondola reflections, corridors of antiquity, sculptured bridges joining medieval buildings of boutique europe and of course, Gucci, sachhi, mashimino….

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St Marks Square… And the Basilica.

From the canals of Venice to the doll like island of Burano… Colored houses line the streets of this “Truman Show” Hollywood film set.

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The Renaissance is the balance of body and mind..to have true beauty one must have both a beautiful mind and a body of beauty. To have one without the other is not to reach true beauty. Michelangelos David is the personification of this ideal…

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Principal of a fantastic secondary public school where our young people enliven their dreams through a growth mindset to fulfil their potential. Focussed on leadership that makes a difference in my school.

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