After being brave enough to wander around the rooftop of the Duomo I spent some time on the Piazza waiting for the blue hour… it was time to say good bye to Milan on the next day I travelled south to Bari.
Tag: Italia
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Duomo at night
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Shrines over shrines
There were quite a lot of things about Naples that had me spellbound: all the fireworks every evening around the bay, children driving scooters, the amount of fried food and something that might be typical for the Quartieri Spagnoli, at least I didn´t see them in that amount somewhere else: shrines!
They are everywhere! Small, big, old, new, kitschy, nice, full of pictures and so on – there must be hundreds of them in the spanish quarters…
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Officina Profumo Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella
Whenever you´re in Florence you don´t want to miss one of the oldest and probably most beautiful pharmacies of the world! La Officina Profumo Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella – founded shortly after 1221 by Dominican friars who made and sold balms, medications out of medicinal herbs grown in the monastic gardens.
In 1612 the pharmacie was well know even outside of Florence and opened to the public.
The Old Apothecary, now a herbalist’s shop, was used for the sale and display of products between 1612 and 1848, while the historic Sales Room, restructured in 1848, was the place in which the company’s customers were welcomed when the increasing fame of the pharmacy made the provision of a room for entertaining customers a must. (Museums in Florence)
Today they offer a wide range of products from soaps to colognes, medical liqueurs made after the old recipes. Even some fragrance quite similar to the “acqua della regina” once created for the loyal costumer Catherine de’ Medici.
