Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 1664: The city of flowers in the rain
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After visiting the Municipal Square, Ye Tian and the others walked into the Palazzo Vecchio, also known as the Old Palace, and began to visit this ancient palace built in the early fourteenth century.
This is an ancient palace with complete defenses. It was once the residence of the Medici family and later became the Florence City Hall, the political center of Florence.
In modern times, this ancient palace is still in use, but it has been turned into a fully open museum for tourists to visit.
The facade of this ancient palace with a long history still maintains the medieval style, giving people a sense of vicissitudes of life, just like an ancient medieval castle.
And its interior decoration and decoration also maintain the appearance of the Renaissance. The person responsible for decorating this ancient palace was Vasari, a famous architect in the late Renaissance.
He integrated the exaggerated murals depicting the achievements of the Florentines with the entire building, making the interior of this ancient palace breathtakingly beautiful.
As far as the palace itself is concerned, it is a rare and top-notch antique work of art. It is extremely valuable and has great research value. It is famous in the history of architecture.
In this ancient palace, there are also many top-notch antiques and artworks on display. Each piece is valuable, radiating bright light and charming artistic charm.
The most famous of them is Michelangelo's large mural, "Victory", which is located on the walls on both sides of the Congress Hall of the Republic on the second floor of the palace, adding a bit of elegance to the hall of 500 people.
In addition, there are Bronzino's murals, Donatello's sculptures, Ghirlandaio's Roman Heroes series of murals, etc. All kinds of top-notch antique artworks can be seen everywhere, and there is a dazzling array!
Every name that appears here is like thunder, radiating a dazzling light in the history of Western art. They are all famous top art masters during the Renaissance.
After visiting the Palace of Vecchio, it was almost half-past in the morning. Ye Tian and his group went to visit the old bridge, also known as the famous Ponte Vecchio.
This is the oldest bridge in Florence, built in 1345. The bridge is a two-story building that used to be the corridor from the Uffizi Palace to the Pitti Palace on the other side.
The Ponte Vecchio spans both sides of the Arno River. The early Renaissance-style buildings on the bridge are very interesting and can be called a beautiful and romantic ancient bridge.
Unlike other Ponte Vecchio bridges that have buildings on them, the buildings on Ponte Vecchio are arranged on both sides, extending outward over the Arno River, leaving the main channel in the middle of the bridge unobstructed.
In this way, people walking on the bridge can look up and see the sky. Raindrops falling from the sky will naturally fall on the stone pavement of the bridge and then flow into the Arno River.
When Ye Tian and the others stepped onto the Ponte Vecchio Bridge, it was still raining lightly, and it kept hitting the umbrella covers, the roofs of the buildings on the bridge, and the calm Arno River under the bridge.
At this moment, when they were walking on this ancient bridge holding umbrellas, they couldn't help but have the illusion of walking through the Renaissance, which was very interesting.
However, this good feeling quickly disappeared.
After walking a few steps onto the bridge, they saw a large number of shops lining both sides of the central passage, completely occupying the ancient early Renaissance-style buildings on both sides.
Like most tourist areas, there are specialty stores selling specialties from Florence and surrounding areas, as well as jewelry and luxury goods stores, and the business is quite good and there are a lot of people!
But for Ye Tian and the others, seeing such a scene on such a beautiful and romantic ancient bridge still somewhat ruined the scenery and ruined the mood.
That's not all, there is something even more disturbing. Among the people visiting the old bridge, there are many thieves waiting for the opportunity to steal, and they all have a sly look.
For these thieves, the narrow and crowded Ponte Vecchio is undoubtedly the most ideal place to commit crimes and a treasure trove for them to make a fortune.
The numerous specialty stores, jewelry stores, and luxury goods stores on the bridge made it easy for them to determine that those tourists had a lot of cash in their pockets and were ready to be slaughtered.
From the moment he walked onto the Ponte Vecchio until he strolled across this short-span old bridge, Ye Tian witnessed at least eighty-nine thefts with his own eyes.
As for the thefts committed against Chinese tourists, whenever he saw them, he would alert the ignorant Chinese tourists and stop the thieves without exception.
As for other thefts, he was too lazy to pay attention to them and chose to turn a blind eye. Whether the other foreigners were unlucky or not, he didn't care at all.
Although the famous Uffizi Gallery is right next to Ponte Vecchio, it is within easy reach.
However, after visiting the Ponte Vecchio, Ye Tian and the others did not immediately enter the Uffizi Gallery for a tour. Instead, they went to the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Giotto's Bell Tower not far away.
The Uffizi Gallery is a temple of art, displaying countless outstanding works by Renaissance art masters, as well as outstanding paintings by representatives of various other painting schools.
In addition, there are many ancient Roman and ancient Greek sculptures here. For art lovers, the Uffizi Gallery is the most magnificent wonder of Florence, the "City of Flowers".
As a top antique art appraisal expert and professional treasure hunter, for Ye Tian, the Uffizi Museum cannot be missed. This is the main purpose of his coming to Florence!
And such a top-notch art palace requires a lot of time to visit and savor it, so that the trip is worthwhile.
Ye Tianzheng planned this. He planned to visit the Uffizi Gallery tomorrow, enjoy the top antiques and art displayed here, and feel the charm of many Renaissance art masters.
In his plan, he planned to stay in the Uffizi Gallery for one or two days and try his best to appreciate all the top antique artworks on display.
Even so, it was just a quick glance. Under normal circumstances, he could only see a small part of the Uffizi Gallery's collection.
Like famous museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre with rich collections, most of the top antique artworks collected by the Uffizi Gallery are not displayed but are instead stored in warehouses.
What's more important is that Ye Tian and the others have a limited time to stay in Florence and will leave here soon.
You know, the Uffizi Gallery has a total of forty-five exhibition halls and a collection of up to 100,000 pieces. You can't see it all in a day or two, and you can only select some of the best parts to appreciate.
Fortunately, Ye Tian has the ability to see through everything, and the top antique artworks in the Uffizi Gallery that are not on public display cannot escape his eyes.
As long as he wants, he can secretly turn on the clairvoyance and see the collections of the Uffizi Museum at a glance, and maybe there will be surprising windfalls!
The situation was the same at the Pitti Palace across the river from the Uffizi Gallery. Although it was close at hand, Ye Tian and the others did not immediately go visit it.
It is also a museum open to the public and contains many works by top art masters such as Raphael, Rubens, and Van Dyck. He plans to visit there on his last day.
After visiting the Pitti Palace, you can leave Florence and head to Milan.
Of course, there is a premise here, that is, no unexpected events will occur and disrupt the established arrangements.
However, things often don’t go as expected.
After leaving Ponte Vecchio, Ye Tian and the others held umbrellas, laughing and chatting while strolling along the ancient streets of Florence towards the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore not far away.
When they passed through the Piazza della Signoria again, and had just stepped onto the elegant Calzarioli Street, and walked forward for about thirty or forty meters, Cole's voice suddenly came from the earphones.
"Steven, the scumbags from the Casamonica family have followed, just twenty meters behind, mixed in with the crowd in twos and threes, led by Tony, there are seven people in total, obviously they have bad intentions.
How to deal with those mafia scum? Leave it to the Italian police in plainclothes behind, or should we deal with it ourselves? The snipers we deployed have already targeted those idiots! "
Hearing this, a cold smile immediately appeared on the corner of Ye Tian's mouth.
Since you idiots don’t know how to live or die and insist on coming here to seek death, then don’t blame me for being cruel, wash your necks and prepare to go to hell!