Day 3 Florence: It's Davids all the Way Down

We started the day at the Accademia Gallery to look at the Michelangelo's David. We were very happy we had reserved tickets as even at 9:00 in the morning. The line for unreserved viewing stretched all the way down the block and through the plaza seeing the David was incredible. The bronze and Sioux Falls doesn't do it justice. Just as impressive where the unfinished Michelangelo's that stretched the hallway. The gallery also had some fascinating plaster statues from the 17 and 1800s and a lot of pre-renaissance altar pieces. One that looked very much like a posters for a movie that could be titled "Jesus Christ, the Reckoning".

Continuing on the sculpture kick we decided to go to a museum called the Bargello. It is a former police station, and it was one of the best sculpture museum I have ever seen. When you walk inside you are greeted by no more than three different Davids one by Michelangelo and two by Donatello and some "minor" Michelangelo pieces. If there can even be a minor Michelangelo piece. We finished the museum by running up and seeing the collection of armor on the third floor. The building was a former police station and was really fun to see how they built those buildings back in the 14th and 15th centuries.