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Who ever has not explored the world through Google Earth. The spy program that allows the planet to satellite view, provides possibilities that exceed the original idea of looking at the roof of our house like. Google Earth allows us to make real finding, or explore places we’ve never visited, but we can understand better thanks to the precision of the program.

From visit cities and sites that do not know guess what, beyond the postcard images, finding curious formations to natural or man-made, so well seen from the sky. Some users exploit the full potential of tourism in the program, using the search engine to find a spot on the map, but also to find itineraries assembled by users or browse images uploaded to Panoramio and geolocated.

Even in Google Earth, begin to appear places or to places of interest that are not on a map or a guide. For any search, we must activate the sidebar (there is a button to activate / hide the bar), and then we can target what we need, simply by entering a zip code, or even the exact coordinates of a point on the planet. For a thematic tour, many cities, regions and countries that use Google Earth to promote themselves. An example is the official website of the Egyptian Tourist Office, which created a bird’s eye view tour the country by posting a virtual tour in Google Earth. The tour ranges from the heritage sites in Egypt, some with 3D views, and sites with descriptions and related links. Even some events have mounted your route on Google Earth, as the Tour de France, with its various stages. They are the users themselves that indicate the routes.

What’s more, Google combines service with street view images at 360 º for worldwide locations. To find them as we sail, we need only activate the layer “Street View” in Using the Layer panel. A virtual way to feel we’re there, although we have not yet removed from the home computer. For if we lack ideas, we can consult records of the strangest views of Google Earth, a collection of giant figures, signs or buildings and giant man-made, and that seemed designed for Google Earth.

If you visit Florence, one of the essential visit is to the Academia Gallery and the main reason to visit Florence and not see the David of Michelangelo is like visiting Rome and not seeing the Colosseum. But even as a must, this is the second most visited museum in Florence behind the Uffizi Gallery. But this should not surprise us, since Florence is the cradle of the Renaissance and the Uffizi Gallery without David, offers visitors beautiful works of geniuses such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, the most important The Birth of Venus by Botticelli and the Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci.

But returning to the Academy Gallery and Michelangelo’s David, we note that this is an impressive white marble sculpture of 5.17 meters representing David before he faced Goliath. This work was carried out between 1501 and 1504 in the workshops of the Opera del Duomo. Their first destimo the doors of the Ponte Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria. But she was transferred to the Academy Gallery in 1873, to protect from inclement weather, and protect the sculpture for future generations.

In the gallery we find Michelangelo four prisoners, carved between 1521 and 1523 and intended for the tomb of Julius II. The works, unfinished, they are very interesting, because of the heavy stone seem intent on leaving and herculean unfinished figures. An outline of San Mateo and a Pieta, preceding the giant unfinished also David. At age 25, Michelangelo broke with the classical canons of David, with sheepskin and leather bag. Creating a life full of David and desire for victory, with strong muscles, which rests on one leg to push the action, an action that is sensed in his own hands.

If you wish to visit must know that open Tuesday through Sunday from 8:15 to 18:50 hours. Closed on Monday, May 1, 25 December and 1 January. Its price is 6.5 €. Young people between 18 and 25 years pay 3,25 €. And those under age 18 and over 65 free access. We can get to the Galleria dell’Accademia in buses 1 and 17. Our guide in Florence will find useful information to travel to Florence, how they get around florence or what to visit in Florence.