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This castle was near our hotel in Strove, near Monterrigione, north of Siena.

San Gimignano was nearby, to the north.

Louise and Tom climbed to the top of the Duomo's dome
in Florence, and took
this picture looking down on Giotto's Campanile.

This famous tower in Lucca has oak trees growing on top -- the trees are
hundreds of years old.

Tom in front of a mountain lake on a hike we took in the Alto Adige.

This is from a post card -- in side St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, these are
the famous "spandrels." I had to see them because I had read the famous
article about Evolution by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. Magnificent...