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MEMORIES OF MARVELOUS PORTS

Author: By Richard P. Carpenter, Globe Staff
Date: SUNDAY, July 26, 1998
Page: M6
Section: Travel

Livorno/Florence/Pisa -- With the ship docking in nearby Livorno, passengers are free to explore these sites and book tours for them. But they are also part of our overland tour, and we travel via the Umbrian and Tuscan countryside. We stop occasionally for cappuccino or gelato, which is really Paradise in a cup. . . . In Florence, the beauty and intricacy of the Duomo, the Campanile, the Baptistery, and the Palazzo Vecchio leave me almost speechless. But speech is on my mind at the Church of Santa Croce, where Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo, and other great artists and thinkers are buried. I imagine their spirits emerging at night and conducting the most stimulating conversations. . . . Artists are selling sketches in the Plaza Della Signoria, including one of Leonardo. Da Vinci? No, DiCaprio. . . . The Tower of Pisa leans all right -- 14 feet out of its perpendicular. Never have I seen so many sellers of souvenirs in one spot than in Pisa, offering, among other things, leaning towers in your choice of size and materials. But, fortunately, the salespeople don't lean on you.


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