Italy

On my trip to Italy I got to travel around to many different cities. I visited Firenze and Roma as well as the coastal cities of Chiqua Terre. Everything in Rome is incredibly beautiful. The architecture is amazing and the fact that they built some of these elaborate churches hundreds and hundreds of years ago with hammers and nails is mindblowing. Firenze was my favorite place that I visited. The city layout is remarkable. You feel like you are just walking down a normal steet and then boom, theres the biggest church you have ever seen. Never would I have expected that. The bridges across the river in Firenze are incredible as well. Roma is a very different city than Firenze. Everyone is zooming around on their bikes and in their cars compared to people walking everywhere. Vatican City was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. To me it shows a major flaw in the catholic church though. I am a devoted Catholic and I always have been, but the fact that I go to mass every sunday and am asked for money to help the church is hard to understand. From what I have seen at the Vatican they do not need much money. Everything there is extremely elaborate and they have what looks to be millions and millions of dollars worth of jewels and elaborate robes sitting in the city. Why does a church need these things? The point of the church is to be modest not to show off how powerful you are. I think that if these things were to be sold off and that money given to help the needy then it would make me feel much more comfortable giving my money away to the church every week. These cities are very different from American cities. America does not have nearly the amount of history that Italy has due to the short existence. Seeing all of these places that have such an elaborate, diversified history is mindblowing to me. I want to go back to Italy someday and I give it an 8/10.