Porta San Niccolò is part of the walls of Florence and is located in Piazza Giuseppe Poggi, in Oltrarno. Due to its isolated, massive, and slender appearance, it resembles more of a tower today (although in the past, all gates of Florence were...
This palace, one of the first to be built in the north-west corner of the walled city at the end of theFirenze, Palazzo Pandolfini, Il giardino decorato da statue 15th century, had a small "Garden of Delights" and a larger vegetable garden....
Palazzo Davanzati is a fourteenth-century palace on Via Porta Rossa, in the heart of Florence, which houses the museum of the Old Florentine House. Here you see what life was like in the home of a rich medieval merchant: courtyard, stairs,...
The Chiesa di San Felice (Church of St Felix) is a church in Florence, Italy. It is located on the south bank of the River Arno, just west of the Pitti Palace. It is predominantly Gothic, but has a Renaissance façade by Michelozzo, added in 1457....
Rodolfo Siviero was a Minister in the 1950s, but his greatest merit, to which his memory is most closely linked, was that of an art detective who returned to our country many important works of art that had been illegally looted during World War...
The Church of Santi Apostoli is a church in Florence, Italy. It was built in the 11th century, and, though remodelled in the 15th and 16th centuries, is one of the few in the city to have maintained its High Middle Ages features. It faces the...
The Fountain of Neptune is a fountain in Florence, Italy, situated on the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria square), in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned in 1565 and is the work of the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati. This...
Brunelleschi's Dome is the great red dome that covers Florence Cathedral, the symbol of the city: 45.5 meters in inner diameter, 116 in height with the lantern, the largest masonry dome ever built.
You can climb all the way up, between the...
The Castagna Tower, also known as the Iron Mouth, is one of the ancient towers in the historic center of Florence, among the best preserved, located in Piazza San Martino at the corner with Via Dante Alighieri. The tower is very old and has a...
The Cloister of the Scalzo is an important fresco cycle located in a small cloister at number 69 on Via Cavour in Florence. A hidden gem of the city, it was actually the access porch to the destroyed church of the Compagnia dei Disciplinati di...
Casa Guidi is the fifteenth-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, in which the piano nobile apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs...
The church of Santi Michele e Gaetano, known to Florentines simply as San Gaetano, is the largest and most complete Baroque building in Florence. It closes off Via de' Tornabuoni onto Piazza Antinori: in a city of Renaissance churches, it is the...
The church of San Frediano in Cestello is a large Baroque church in Piazza di Cestello, in the Oltrarno, with its entrance facing the Arno. With three monumental aisles and a Latin-cross plan, it is one of the most important churches in the...
San Salvi, also known as San Michele a San Salvi, is a church built in the 11th century by the Vallombrosans as part of an abbey complex. During the 1529 Siege of Florence, the church was partially destroyed. It was reconstructed in accordance...
The church of Sant'Ambrogio stands in the square of the same name, in the eastern part of central Florence, north of Santa Croce. Plain on the outside, inside it is one of the churches richest in history and atmosphere in the city.
You...
The Chiesa di Santa Margherita de' Cerchi is an ancient church dedicated to Margaret the Virgin in the centre of Florence, Italy. It is first recorded in 1032 and is said, contentiously, to have been the location of Dante's marriage to Gemma...
Piazza del Duomo is the religious heart of Florence, in the historic center. It is dominated by Santa Maria del Fiore, with Brunelleschi's dome, Giotto's bell tower and the Baptistery: the city's religious center for over a thousand...
The Ponte alle Grazie is the five-arched bridge that spans the Arno in central Florence, from Via de' Benci to Piazza de' Mozzi in the Oltrarno, just downstream of the San Niccolò weir. Without the crowds of the Ponte Vecchio, it hides an unusual...
The church of San Salvatore al Monte stands on the hill behind Piazzale Michelangelo, the Monte alle Croci, just below San Miniato. It is a single-nave Franciscan church, simple and austere, among the cypresses.
The facade is almost bare:...
The Gardens of the Fortress, also known as the Vascone, are located on the east side of the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, between the bastions and the Filippo Strozzi avenue. The area was designed by Giuseppe Poggi, as part of the works for the...
Palazzo Martelli, on Via Zannetti, near Via de' Cerretani, houses the Museo di Casa Martelli: a house-museum that shows the centuries of a noble Florentine family, through paintings, furniture and frescoed rooms.
The facade is rather...
The Arno is the river of Florence and the main waterway of Tuscany: it rises on Monte Falterona, in the Apennines, and after 241 kilometers flows into the Ligurian Sea, just past Pisa. In Florence it crosses the center between its riverside...
The Church of San Barnaba is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence on Via Panicale at the corner with Via Guelfa. Built in 1322, it was named in memory of the victorious Battle of Campaldino against the Aretini, fought on June 11, 1289,...
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity stands on Via Leone X, a few blocks from the Fortezza da Basso, in Florence. You can spot it from afar by its five onion domes of colored ceramic: a piece of Russia in a neighborhood born between the...
The Children's Museum, later renamed Mus.e, is a non-profit association based in Florence. Founded in 2000, it offers activities and workshops to promote the knowledge of the Florentine Civic Museums. It is located in Palazzo Vecchio and...
Palazzo Nonfinito is a 16th-century palace in Florence, on Via del Proconsolo, a stone's throw from the Duomo, with a remarkable front on Borgo degli Albizi as well. Since 1924 it has housed the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology. The name says...
Piazza San Firenze in Florence is named after the complex of San Filippo Neri, also known as San Firenze due to a distortion of the name of a pre-existing building dedicated to St. Fiorenzo. The square has an elongated "almond" shape and on the...
Piazza Santa Maria Novella is the large square in front of the basilica of the same name, in the center of Florence. It is a wide, open space, dominated by the church's facade, with two obelisks resting on bronze tortoises.
The square was...
Piazza Santo Spirito is the liveliest square in Florence's Oltrarno: in front of Brunelleschi's basilica, with a fountain in the middle, a garden and trattorias, bars and workshops all around. By day there is the little market, in the evening the...
The Boboli Amphitheater is the open-air theater of the Boboli Gardens, with tiered seating and niches, right behind Palazzo Pitti, on the garden's main axis.
It served the Medici court for summer shows, above all carousels and equestrian...
The Arch of Triumph is an architectural monument in Florence located in Piazza della Libertà. Built in the eighteenth century by architect Jean-Nicolas Jadot, the construction involved contributions from architect Schamant and decorative artists...