hello sorry i forgot to do this yesterday but here is my day 4 blog! we got the train to the town of Ferrara today, it’s a very beautiful historic town that wasn’t too far to get to. There’s a huge medieval castle in the centre which i didn’t go inside but walked around the courtyard. my sister went in though and said it was really cool! we then went to get pizza to eat and it was pretty damn good :p
i wanted to go to the Alphonse Mucha exhibition. Mucha was an 19th century artist and illustrator from the Czech Republic and is most known for his ‘art nouveau style’. he is one of my favourite artists and one of my biggest art inspirations so i was so happy that an exhibition of his work was on!
outside of the gallery
Muchas art! i love the silver in this ^^
he made huge paintings for theatre shows and advertisments.
some stamps he designed!
a beautiful bottle
there was so much amazing art i didn’t photograph lol but it really didn’t do them justice. i got some postcards of my favourite pieces but even those don’t really express how good it looks in real life.
my shoe sole fell apart at this point and i had to buy some glue to stick it back together T-T i got lemon soda tho … the best drink ever!!
we then walked to the cathedral in the town centre. it was under refurbishment on the outside so i didn’t expect much but i was so taken aback. it is so so beautiful!
i spent lots of time at this chapel taking all the details in. the cathedral wasn’t busy apart from people having mass in the corner chapel. the sound of their chanting echoed throughout the building creating a eerie but really ethereal atmosphere.
there were also nuns leading the mass - i had never seen a nun before today lol. they are cool
my photos do not do the vibe justice …
we then had to speed walk back to the station + my broken shoe so we didn’t miss the train. we made it with like 1 min lmaoo…
we then went back home and i had tomato salad and vegan frankfurters with bread for tea :p scrumptious !
I love Mucha too! I saw his gallery in Madrid in 2019 I think? It was so awesome, they had a few high quality pics of pieces from his Slav Epic which were just otherworldly!! Do you like traveling by train? I love it but its usually so expensive :( lemon soda forever!!
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