Leyte (CVA 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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X I-,,, . H ...T - ....... . W., i E l At La Spezia, tour party. boards the bus that will take thg to Florence. The group included more than sixty men. the majestic dome of the Cathedral of Florence. From a Bridge overlooking the city, three tourist sailors admire 5 4 i . 1 1 l l . I y FLORENCE IS ART! She is a city indescribably opulent in all art forms. No other city, in no other epoch, ever had i 1 1 such an intense flowering of art. Florence mothered the Renaissance, and many of the men whose creations comprised the iinest art of that period. Home of such creative geniuses, as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Alberti, 2 and Michelozzo, Florence remains today the seat of the world's highest culture. il E J Upon his arrival, the visitor is at once captivated by the towering dome of the Cathedral of Florence. The dome, E completed in 1436, is the work of Filippo Brunelleschi. Constructed by a skillful combination of classic and mediaeval i structural methods, the dome is chieiiy impressive when viewed from its exterior. The grace of its curvilinearform is admirably set oif by the lines of Giotta's slender campanile at the western end of the building. l i .s li Heart of the Florentine shopping district is on and around bridge pictured below. The Bridges in the background were destroyed A by the Germans in their retreat during the last war. This was the only major destruction of the war to that famous city. , 1 l? 5 rx 5 E E L : 3 I -