PISA 
Leaning Tower of Pisa: Medieval Wonders of the World #2: Tick 
Leaning tower of Pisa Random Tourist in Pisa pushing towers like ooooooooo
LUCCA – Tuscan Medieval Town
Atop Tower Guinigi, Lucca. It has hanging gardens on top of it. 
View of Lucca from the tower
FLORENCE: 
Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Basilica of Saint Mary Uffizi Museum Statues: Michelangelo David
of the Flower) 
Rome, Undoubtedly, the most beautiful city I’ve seen. A renaissance city and an open air piece of art.
Colosseum : Medieval Wonder of World #1: Tick 
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" at Piazza Navona. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Plate representing the Americas.
The Fountain of the Naiads on the Piazza della Repubblica Fontana di Trevi – The most beautiful fountain in Rome.
Roman Forums: is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. 
An uncanny comparison creep up obviously. Which city is more beautiful, Rome or Paris ? What I found distinguished Rome from Paris was that whereas Paris is a city of palaces and castles, Rome is a city of artisans. Rome looks like a city of escape, where creative energies seem liberated and where past and present imbibe each other to produce an intoxicating piece of beauty.
Vatican City
Castle Sant Angelo, Rome, Italy 
The Tintin, Chocolates and 250 Beers city.
Cafeteria surrounding the grand place: Tasted one of the nicest latte in one of these.
The whole city is painted with murals, which make an exiting trip to go around walking and discovering them. 
The Town Hall at Grand place Random tourist in the city going around like click click click 
Potted plants on display at the grand place
The 120 Euro trip, where I did not spend 9 euro to enter the Abbey.
Mont Saint Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France.
Roaming around in Paris, Musee d Orsay, Notre Dame and Mont Marte.
Musee d’ Orsay – View of Paris across river Seine from one of the huge clocks in Musee d’ Orsay.
Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre Dame Cathedral Notre Dame Cathedral – View from across the Seine
Mont Marte – My personal favourite. One of the most interesting places in Paris with Stories and Stories and stories.
Sacre Ceur – Cathedral atop Mont Marte Interesting story about this place – An old mating place 
Such places had a subtle way to convey outsiders that they are
“those places”. Nothing extraordinary or flashy, they just
placed their house number in two different font sizes, One on
the door, one in the corner of the walls. ( Pink house!!!! 
)
The place where Picasso charmed waitresses and turned the fortunes of the owner.
Picasso, to start with, had no money, usually the case with all the artists. Destitute and hungry, he once went to this restaurant and ordered a bowl of soup. After gobbling up the bowl, he remembered that he had no money to pay. Thinking out of the box solutions, he tried charming the waitress with a sketch of hers on paper napkin. It worked. The girl fell for it and she let him go without paying his bills.
Soon, It became a norm for Picasso. Each time he approached a new waitress and repeated the trick for free food. When this story finally came into light, the owner confronted Picasso and did the obvious thing. He demanded him to pay back. Now, since Picasso did not have had any money to pay, he instead offered him some of his paintings in return for the food. Needless to say what happened to the owner. Filthy rich would be too insolent a word for him.
Moulin Rogue: The Cabaret dance club. Entry Ticket = 100 euros 
An artists’ studio. Picasso and Modigliani, along with other noted artists lived here.
Once, there was a competition in Paris, to decide who is the best artist in the city. Picasso and Modigliani were unknown of during that time. When the results were declared, both the gentlemen were shown as the finest of all. Beaming with the results they ran out to celebrate. Now, the news of them topping the list was a public news and it so happened that a thief had been lurking near their apartment waiting for them to leave. Late after midnight, when these two returned from their celebrations they found that their rooms were in disarray with visible signs of missing paintings.
Funny story now, Modigliani found out that all his paintings were missing and started shouting and cursing the thief. Looking at the mess, Picasso sprinted towards his room to check if things were in order and was infuriated with what he saw. None of his paintings were stolen and his room was untouched. That night, whilst Modigliani kept cursing the thieves because all of his paintings were stolen, Picasso was crying because none of his were.
Picasso retired rich and unlike some of the other artists, he had a contended and peaceful life. And when he parted, his last words were “ Drink to art, Drink to life, and most importantly drink to my health for I can drink no more.”
