Monday, April 7, 2008

The Bell Tower (more pictures!)

Lately we have not had much time to blog, and we have LOTS of pictures to show you. Here we go!


Next to the Duomo, there's a bell tower that was built in 1350. My mom and I went to the top of it. Amelia didn't feel good so all of these pictures are of me. There were 414 steps up, but if you include the way down it was really 828 steps--really really steep steps!

It was really windy! (did you know if you click on these pictures they will get bigger?)
One of the staircases.
This is the church next to the bell tower called the Duomo. There are steps to the top there.
This is the other end of that church, called the Duomo.
This is one of the bells in the tower, the rest of the bells that have not been taken down are inside the walls! A lot of people write on it.
This is the view from the top!

Here's another picture of the Duomo from the top.
This was on a post inside at the top--it's Mary (called the Madonna in Italy) and baby Jesus

1 comment:

Pam McMahan said...

Hi Maddie and Mia!

Mimi sent me your blog address and I have been enjoying reading all of your posts and seeing all of your pictures. The pictures are beautiful. I just got so tickled at all the pics of pay phones. Post some more of those...they are so funny! Love to your Mom and Dad. I can see you are all having a fabulous time. I haven't seen any pics of Mom yet though, you haven't lost her have you? Tee-hee.
Love,
Aunt Pam