Firenze - design

The main train station area in any city is usually the most awful one around and this problem is only slightly better solved in Florence, where Santa Maria Novella train station is situated on an empty hill, next to a busy roundabout and just couple of steps from the SMN church itself. So that on arrival one does not have to stay there too long (though Simon's mum had to spend a whole night there when she visited Italy on holidays just after WW2 and she still remembers it as the most unpleasant experience) and can escape to the charming squares of the citycenter which is just a short walk away.

I actually like only one station which is surprisingly Glasgow's Queen Street station but Italian one had an advantage of a beautifully designed lettering which brought back a designer in me. I came back especially to take several photos to share these unusual 1930s fonts with Monica. The set of numbers in the first photograph is actually a clock, it is quarter to four o'clock: