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La Spezia (Florence/Pisa), Italy

Dolce as gelato, the iconography of Firenze includes the Ponte Vecchio's gold shops and Boboli Garden's sculpted hedges. Art proliferates like grass, gracing the walls of the Pritti Palace and Uffizi. Even the plazas are watched over by stone-chiseled gods. Nature's Tuscan hills and River Arno seem to exist only to taunt humans to out-do it; notice the details in the Duomo's curves, the rapture of Michelangelo's David, the life-affirming beauty of Botticelli's colorful Birth of Venus. These works of art have remained for centuries. Enjoy them. Then, start in on more fleeting masterpieces: the pizzas!