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		<title>The Costume Gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's guest post is an excerpt from <strong><em>100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go</em></strong>, by Susan Van Allen]]></description>
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		<title>Convent San Marco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located in Piazzo San Marco, the Convento di San Marco was home to more than one Renaissance monk/artist, but probably the most humbly famous of them all was Fra Angelico, who painted a number of frescoes on the convent's walls.]]></description>
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		<title>Il Bargello</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/02/il-bargello/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of buildings in Florence, The Bargello can be deceiving. The interior seems much larger than the outside lets on and because of its fortress construction, it's very easy to think that the rooms inside this building will be dark and dank. Not so.]]></description>
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		<title>Galleria dell&#8217;Accademia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Accademia di Belle Arti is not only a gallery museum that holds Michelangelo's most famous work, The David. The Accadamia di Belle Arti is also an art school and library.]]></description>
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		<title>Palazzo Vecchio</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/02/palazzo-vecchio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il Palazzo Vecchio, The Old Palace, is probably the second most well known landmark in the skyline of Florence. The building was built in the late 14th century, and added onto in the two subsequent centuries, and houses the city government of Florence. The building is a unique combination of government and art, one that only an Italian city steeped in the Renaissance could pull off.]]></description>
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		<title>The Gates of Paradise</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/01/the-gates-of-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lorenzo Ghiberti was an artist who started out his remarkable sculpting career as a goldsmith in Florence. He won a competition in 1402, at the young age of 24, for the first set of Baptistry doors which took him 22 years to complete. Based on his completion of the first set of doors, he was then commissioned (without having to compete) in 1424, by the Opera del Duomo, to complete the original bronze Doors of Paradise for the Baptistry of San Giovanni. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brunelleschi&#8217;s Dome</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/01/brunelleschis-dome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, known the world over by its nickname, Il Duomo, is the landmark that ultimately defines the city of Florence. From almost every vantage point within the city, the red dome can be glimpsed.]]></description>
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		<title>The Mona Lisa</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/01/the-mona-lisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mona Lisa, sometimes also known as La Gioconda (It.) or La Joconde (Fr.), is a woman of mystery. So many myths surround her that the only way to look at her, and to really see her, is to forget them all and just take her for what she is - one of Leonardo da Vinci's finest paintings.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaning Tower of Pisa</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/01/leaning-tower-of-pisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leaning Tower of Pisa ... just hearing its name brings thoughts of gravity-defying joy. Standing at varying degrees of incline for centuries, the tower has been the focus of lore and legend. Built of stone, yet fragile in its existence, this Romanesque tower has capitvated the residents of Pisa, and the world, through time.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ponte Vecchio</title>
		<link>http://tuscany.artist-at-large.com/2009/02/01/the-ponte-vecchio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Kradel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ponte Vecchio was the first bridge to span the Arno, the river that flows through the middle of the city of Florence. It was probably built in the 1st centrury BC by the Romans and has been
swept away a number of times in its history. This current version of the bridge was designed by Taddeo Gaddi and built out of stone in the 14th century to replace the wooden version that was destroyed by the flood of 1333.]]></description>
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