Emil Explores

What’s on your list of places to visit immediately after the shutdown ends?? Blejski Park, Lake Bled, Slovenia is among the top of my list 🏃

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I was casually walking around Monaco thinking I was passing through preparations for the Grand Prix. Monaco is essentially the nucleus of luxury in the world. Everything is perfect. Even the air is scented! I knew I recognized the area and the places I was seeing, but I wasn’t sure how, or from where...

Surprisingly, enjoying Monaco was cheaper than most other cities that I’ve been to in Europe and elsewhere, with a much higher quality of EVERYTHING.

Seriously, if you haven’t been, I highly recommend it. It is SOOO choice!

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On to Florence, or Firenzia, as the Italians call it. The home of Michelangelo’s statue of David, standing 17 feet tall (5.17 meters) at the Galleria dell’Accademia, it was Michelangelo’s commissioned tribute to the biblical hero of the same name when battling Goliath.
It was moved several times in order to keep it protected and preserved, and at once stood in the Piazza della Signoria at the seat of government, where it was unveiled in 1504. The statue itself, due to its context in the Bible has come to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the political and possibly military dominance of the Medici family.
It’s a bit of a heavy one, made completely of marble, it weighs roughly six tons!
If you look toward his left foot you could see the damage done by a reportedly mentally-disturbed artist by a hammer in 1991, and what you see is the result of the restoration done. @ Galleria dell'Accademia