I went to Dublin with my husband and two friends of mine, Antonietta and Giovanni.
Dublin is a magical and beautiful place to visit.
It has Medieval, Georgian and modern architecture that enrich the beauty of the city.
Dubliners are extremely friendly with its visitors and during my holiday while I was looking for some place or monument or some street often irish people asked us if we have lost the way or they asked us did we looking for. Very nice people.
It has Medieval, Georgian and modern architecture that enrich the beauty of the city.
Dubliners are extremely friendly with its visitors and during my holiday while I was looking for some place or monument or some street often irish people asked us if we have lost the way or they asked us did we looking for. Very nice people.
we decided didn’t take any bus because Dublin is a small town and we had walked a lot from 9 in the morning untill 9 in the evening. Our accommodation was close to the city centre but close to a pub too and we listened to the music untill 2 or 3 in the night so we couldn’t sleep very well.
Breakfast was very good and we could choose irish breakfast with eggs, beans, bacon and sausage or tea, coffee and so on.
The food is good and the dish I like a lot is the steak with mash or fried potatoes and vegetables and of course we drunk Guinness beer.
Dublin nights are very jazzy and live. There are many trendy bars, cafes and Irish pubs with traditional Irish music, many activities as a selection of international restaurants, festivals, concerts, jazz and of course traditional Irish music.
We visited the Chester Beatty Library, a museum there is a big collection of manuscrits, prints, icons, early printed books and objets d’arts from countries across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
I saw, also, Egyptian papyrus texts, beautifull copies of the Qur’an, the Bible and other artistics treasures of the cultures and religions of the world.
This collection was given for the benefit of the public by the rich mining magnate American, Alfred Chester Beatty. He retired to Ireland in 1950 and spent much time until his death in 1968.
We visited the National Museum of Ireland section Archeology un exhibition of the archeological riches of the Prehistoric period in Ireland – the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. Life in a farming settlement in the New Stone Age or Neolithic is shouwn through objets as pins, pots made from animal bones.
There is a beautiful collection of gold objets as torcs, collars, ear-spools and rings.
In this museum you can see also objets of the Viking Ireland found in the graves, objets of the Medieval Ireland life and the Ancient Egypt.
We visited the National Gallery of Ireland and in this museum you can see a superb collection of Western European from the middle ages to the 20th century. In the building there are over eleven thousand works of art by the many masterpieces including works by Caravaggio, Canova, Rembrandt, Monet, Velasques, Picasso, Goya, Van Gogh and all the major painters of the Irish school as the Yeats family.
We visited the Guinness Storehouse- This is the home of Guinness where we can discover what there is in every pint of beer. The building is designed in the shape of a giant pint of Guinness that, if full, would hold 14 Million pints! We can know, step by step, the brewing process of the beer.
In the central atrium there is a copy of the original lease signed by Arthur Guinness in the 1759. He signed this lease for a period of 9000 years!
An other interesting place is the Trinity College founded by Elisabeth the 1st in the 1592 to stop the Dubliners students Protestants that had gone to study in Great Bretain. Untill the 1793 at the catholic students weren’t allowed to study in this college but after some years this was possible but the Pope had excommunicated the students. This had stopped in the 1970. In the Trinity College most of the historical important men had studied in the past as Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift famous for its “The Gulliver’s travel”. Unfortunatly I didn’t see the Book of Kells because we would visit too many places in only two days.
We have been in the Grafton Street in wich there are many elegant shops and beautiful Georgian buildings and while you are walking you can listen to the musicians on the road that are playing irish music or classical music.
We visited the famous Temple Bar Place, it is located in the city centre and here there are many pub, shops and the famous pub “Temple bar”. In this place every Saturday there is a nice food market where you can taste biological food from all the world like Spanish sausage, famous irish cheeses , artisan chocolate, jam and so on.
Ciao Friends!!!
