Tag: mosaic floor

Nearby

I was going to head north after visiting Lecce but read about an interesting church not too far south that I decided to quickly visit. It is in the new to me village of Otranto which turned out to be a very pleasant place.

It’s famous for its 12th century floor mosaic covering the entire floor.
A tree of life.
This is Alexander the Great who uses meat on a stick to get two griffins to carry him up over the earth to get a view.
The lovely ceilings.
The bones of over 800 Christians behead by Muslims in the church in 1480. The church was made into a Mosque. A year later the Muslims were defeated and it became a church again.

Milan

While in Venice We made a quick trip to Milan, about two hours away by train. It’s a very interesting city.

The Milan train station is what is called Fascist architecture done during the time of Mussolini. It was enormous with square shapes and sharp angles everywhere.

We took the metro from the train station to our hotel and this is what we saw when we came out of the station, the Duomo.

Next to the Duomo is this very gorgeous shopping mall, the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II, full of mostly high end shops.

One of the symbols of Italy on the floor there. I thought this was the most beautiful.

We got this shot from up above at a cafe called the Marchesi.

They were selling desserts for Valentine Day.

We had the very rich hot chocolate with whipped cream.