I joined this virtual tour of the world-famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence this evening.  It is the oldest collection of artworks in the world and was founded in 1581 from a collection from the powerful Medici banking family.  This virtual tour only had time in the hour or so allotted to it to look at the key works by the renaissance masters such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Caravaggio and Raphael and includes classical myths and depictions of the Christian story.  Below are just a few photographs that I took of the paintings, plus some of the building itself and of Florence seen from the gallery windows.

For more information, go to these two links:

Wikipedia article on the Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi Gallery website

Montefalco

I joined this virtual tour of Montefalco, in the Umbria region of Italy this afternoon.  Montefalco means Mountain of the Falcons and the falcon is the symbol of this quaint medieval village.  

I've not been on here for a while as HeyGo Tours went out of business, but recently a number of Facebook groups doing similar virtual tours have sprung up in its place.  This tour has been recorded and is available to watch by clicking on this link.  I have also included an information link on the town.

And here are some photos I took during the tour.

City of Chester

I joined a virtual tour of the city of Chester this evening, which has a lot of history reflected in its architecture, in particular its city walls, its main bridge, its cathedral and merchant buildings.  I last came here in 2005.  This was not a live tour but pre-recorded.  The photos are not in any particular order.

Ian, the tour guide.

Victorian houses in residential streets.

Cheshire cat statue.

Chester Cathedral

The weir, River Dee

The River Dee

A view from the city wall.

The Eastgate Clock

The main bridge over the Dee

The Roman Garden

Timber frame house built in 1595.

City wall

King Charles Tower, also known as the Phoenix Tower.

Modern copies of Roman mosaics in the Roman Garden.