After visiting the first Palazzo of the day, we then returned to the Palazzo Ducale, (where the dance class was held the night before). At the last minute Margarita had managed to arrange for us to view rooms in the palace that aren't usually open to the public.
Walking up the stairs again. :)
The central landing
I must apologise in advance for my serious lack of ability to remember interesting historical details about buildings and places - I don't understand why I forget them as I love history. Anyway instead of the facts I have lots and lots of photos. :)
Another gorgeous ceiling - sorry as with my previous post, this post is rather pretty ceiling-photo heavy. :)
I loved the doors
:) This one was exquisite
Napoleon's bed - I love sleigh beds.
I seemed to have taken this ceiling the wrong way round (sorry I completely forgot to rotate it before I uploaded it)
More of Napoleon's bedroom
A beautiful drawing room that was decorated and used by either Napoleon's second wife, or one of his sisters, I can't remember which.
:)
The decor of this room was just goregous. I want a drawing room just like it (with maybe a little less gold. :) )
The dining room was covered, both walls and ceiling in an amazing landscape mural
Aurora and idea pretending to chat during a stroll in the woods (ignore the rather ugly modern chairs :) )
After the tour of Palazzo Ducale, we all went and had lunch at a resturant in a nearby piazza.
Next on the agenda, after lunch, was an historic walking tour of the city. It was conducted by a lovely Italian historian who simultaneously talked about areas and buildings etc in English then Italian, whilst walking backwards most of the time!!! A rather multi-talented guy! The talk was very interesting.
The outside of the old amphitheatre which is now houses and a lovely square or should I say circle!!
Inside the old amphitheatre
Our guide in the blue shirt
One of the stops on the tour was a palazzo with a gorgeous garden - Palazzo Pfanner. Sadly we didn't have enough time to go inside, but we were able to wonder round the garden.
The house from the garden
After taking rather a lot of photos in the garden - it was the perfect place for a photoshoot, we then carried on with the tour.
The next stop was a small alleyway which had a building where part of one wall was covered in 16th or 17th (I think) century graffiti!!
The final stop was the city main theatre - Theatre del Giglio
Here is the impressive facade. The building actually turned out to be in the piazza where we had lunch, so we did quite a bit backtracking and going round in circles that day!!
The interior was pretty, but not quite as impressive as I had expected - as it is quite well known and talked about as being a beautiful theatre.
It was a wonderful day if rather tiring, but the day was not over yet. That evening we had the Grand Ball...
