This week’s Photo Friday becomes a Photo Saturday. This week’s submission by photographer Susan Sanders was delayed - yet inspired - by a short trip to Florence. Thus, today we get an unusual glimpse of that city’s Renaissance security force, an indispensable factor in the success of the Florentine Republic.
The force comprises David, the teen hero of Biblical fame, who has been winning the hearts and minds of Florentine visitors and residents alike for centuries, as well as a 16th-century lion which originally adorned the Villa Medici in Rome, but moved to Florence in an unusual relocation program, when he accepted a new position (with immunity) as sentry to the Loggia dei Lanzi in 1787.
To see more photos by Susan, visit her photo blog: Rome With A View.
