Great churches

I know I told you how in Italy churches are like Starbucks they are literaly in every corner it seems. There are 5 in a 1 mile radius of my house. I am not kidding. Well I have visited many of them especially the more popular ones here in Florence. I have been to the real popular ones like the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce. These are all nice churches and all but they are so massive and I don't know the feel of them is just not the way I imagined it would be. They are cool because like in Santa Croce I saw the tombs of Michelangelo, Galielo and Danti. Oh yeah and Makaveli. However, this week was my church week. I went to a lot of churches that have great frescos. Weirdly enough in a lot of them you have to pay to get in. I found 2 churches that are not really that popular or in the big tourist books but were my absoulute favorites and if you were to ever come to Florence had limited of time you must see these 2 churches just see what the others look like on the internet. I have pictures as well. These 2 are free to boot. My number 1 favorite thus far even beating all the churches in Assisi and anywhere I have been is one called San Minato. I went to Piazza Michelangelo again because it has a great view. Then I walked to the back and didn' t know there was this old really neat and scarey looking cememtary in the back. It leads to a church were these monks used to live. Then it became a Hospice, hospital and convent and now it has gone back into the hands of the monks. It is the greates church ever. I love the symbols inside the church. It is very plain but the energy in this church is amazing. It is not over exaggerated like the others yet it is just so beautiful in its simplicity. It really is not simple but compared to the other churches here it is. The best part is at 5:30 the monks do there ritual. They supposedly do this multiple times a day but I was there at 5:30 and got to witness this cool ritual where it is pretty much mass but just for the monks not the people. They go to this lower chamber and you can hear them chanting. They are doing the Gregorian chants. I know my mystic meditation group knows what I am talking about because we have meditated to these chants before. It is amazing to hear it in person. It was dark in the church no lights in 1028 AD you see and so there are still not lights. Very few windows which is strange for a church in Italy. It was the coolest thing. Then I went to a city 8 KM from Florence on Tuesday called Fiesole. It is like a suburb of Florence. It was created by the Etruscans and you can see some of there artificats. They you can see this Roman amphitheatre as well. It was really nice. It is on the top of this very tall hill the city I mean. Well when we were walking around we decided to hike to the very top of the hill because the little neighborhoods looked cute (took pictures). We get to this cobble road with a sign that says Francesco chapel. It is a very very steep way up. I mean it was like these guys just built the road straight up into the sky. It was tiring but well worth it. We get to the top and you can see all of Florence and Fiesole from the top. My ears popped it was so high up. So we go into this one old church and they ruined it completely with some art work. It has these old roman colums but they covered the rest of the church in some weird are exhbit. Then we kept hiking straight up and saw this little chapel. We went it and again it was just the cutest little bitty chapel. It was free and you could go up these little winding stairs and at the top was the dormitory where the monks lived and talk about ruffing it. It was a wooden table it looked like where they slept and a thing you could kneel on and put your hand on top for prayer. That was it. They had nothing else. We asked the curator if that was how it always was he said yes. These were Francesican monks who believed in giving up all comforts to truely worship and live in simplicity. When we walked in the dormitory looked like it was for the 7 drwarfs. The doors were so tinnie weeinie. Then we went to the bottom basment of the church and there is actual musuem. This Italian archelogist reitred in Fiesole and when he died he left the church everything. With his items were acient artifacts from China and all over Asia. I mean some of the dates we BC. It was cool. Then there was a room with Eutruscian artifacts and part of the orginal Eutruscan wall ran through the bottom of the church. The Eutruscans were the people who inhabitat Italy. Then in the back room were artifacts from Egypt. I actually saw a mummy. It was from some palace in Egypt I wrote the name down but forgot where. Then there were some Roman artifacts. We were so amazed by this place because it is free and hidden. When we came down we saw people just walking past how to go up to the church but they seemed to have no clue about it. How sad for them and thanks to me for being so Nosey and wanting to just explore. See there was a reason I was born so nosey Cesar. Well I will go for now and write more when I can. This weekend I am going to Pisa, Lucca, San Gimiangno and Siena. All little towns outside of Florence. Pisa as you know is where that leaning tower is. I was told you get of the bus take a picture and get back on because there is nothing much else to do so after we are going to the town of Lucca which is suppose to be georgeous.
Ciao for now,
Ps. Guys if there is any news coming from the US let me know. Someone was mentioning there were some fires in Arizona and it killed some people. I have not heard about any thing no news not one thing from the US. Oh yes 1 news. I was told by 3 people the MAVS lost. I am sorry guys I really am. I thought they would make it this time. However, what about anything else. Is there anything I should know about?