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The Trip
Getting there
Budapest is one of the most easily reachable Central European cities. Just ten hours drive northeast of Florence and two hours from Vienna, it is linked by good highways as well as by train. As we were staying for a week, we made a road trip (from Florence) out of it, spending 2 days in the Friuli region of Italy before reaching our final destination (see the page on Pordenone). This trip was taken December, 2005. Read more…

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Podcast describing the history of piazza duomo in Florence.
Dowload the pdf text here (with a diagram of the piazza and its major monuments).