The best Ciry in the World... Il Duomo... Piazza dell Signoria... Palazzo Pitti... Ponte Vecchio... Gli Uffizi... Piazzale Michelangelo... no words!
Piazzale Michelangelo is a famous square with a magnificent panoramic view of Florence! AMAZING PLACE! YOU SHOULD VISIT IT!
Here you can find the Florence Cathedral with the Cupola del Brunelleschi, Giotto's Campanile, Florence Baptistery, Loggia del Bigallo, Opera del Duomo Museum and Arcivescovile and Canonici's palace.
Piazza del Duomo is located in the heart of the historic center of Florence. It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world. The west zone of this square is called San Giovanni square.
It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed in 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels.
The buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Before the modern era, the dome by Filippo Brunelleschi was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.
Standing adjacent the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of St. John, the tower is one of the showpieces of the Florentine Gothic architecture with its design by Giotto.
It is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, noted for still having shops built along it. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers and art dealers.
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains the political hub of the city. Located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza Duomo and gateway to Uffizi.
This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. In front of the copy of David statue and the gallery of statues in adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Giotto, Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael, Cimabue, P. della Francesca, P. di Cosimo, Caravaggio...
La Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi, Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych, Flora, Venus of Urbino, Doni Tondo, Madonna of Goldfinch, Maestà, Bacchus, Sacrifice of Isaac, Medusa.
Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates. The niches in the piers were filled with sculptures of famous artists.
It is an art academy and it is now the operative branch of the still existing Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") that was the first academy of drawing in Europe.
The extraordinary contribution of academics including Michelangelo, Francesco da Sangallo, Bronzino, Cellini, Vasari, Ammannati, Giambologna, Uccello, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, etc...
It is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504. It is a 5.17-metre, marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David. FANTASTIC!
It is located near piazza della Signoria and the National Central Library and takes its name by the Basilica that overlook the square. GOOD NIGHTLIFE! A lots of nice bars, restaurants, pub, etc..
It is a Franciscan church. The site was in marshland out the city walls. It is the burial place of the most illustrious Italian such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Foscolo, Gentile, Rossini.
The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti an ambitious banker. It was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became the chief residence.
In the 18th century, the palazzo was used as a power base by Napoleon. It was donated to Italian people by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1919, and its doors were opened as one of largest art galleries.
It is on the site, first of the city's forum and then of the city's old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works, when Florence was the Capital of Italy. VERY BEAUTIFUL!
Before a Fountain of the Piglet now a copy of a bronze wild boar; the original is in Palazzo Pitti. Popular tradition has it that rubbing the nose brings fortune. Visitors place a coin in the mouth.
It is so called to distinguish it from the old market located in the area of Piazza della Repubblica. It was intended for the sale of silk and luxury goods and then for the famous straw hats.
Originally intended for the Boboli Garden, then moved here. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1612) following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble.
It is the first basilica (Dominican church). The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments. Frescoes by masters of Gothic & Renaissance.
It is a wide square located near Piazza Stazione and San Lorenzo Market, with palaces typically bourgeois where lived Guido Nobili and Theodosia Gorrow Trollope wife of the writer Anthony Trollope.
Here you can find: GUCCI, PRADA, TOD'S, ARMANI, DOLCE E GABBANA, FERRAGAMO, CAVALLI, PEPE, SCERVINO, PUCCI, COVERI, VERSACE, VALENTINO, DIOR, LOUIS VITTON, ROLEX, CHANEL, TIFFANY, CK, BURBERRY, ETC...
It is situated in the main market district and the burial place of all the Medici family. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence. It was consecrated in 393.
The Central Market (or Lorenzo's Market) is one of the results from the time of risanamento, the period when Florence was the capital of Italy in the late nineteenth century. GOOD SHOPPING!
It is a park that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries with some Roman antiquities. The main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany. VERY BEAUTIFUL!
In front of Ponte alla Carraia, in the piazza Goldoni we can find the Palazzo Ricasoli and the statue dedicated to Carlo Goldoni. Very Nice Place!
It hosts the Loggia del Pesce, designed by Giorgio Vasari and the house of Lorenzo Ghiberti. Very Nice Place!
The name from the Basilica of Santa Maria del Santo Spirito. It is located in the Oltrarno quarter. The building on the interior is one of the pre-eminent examples of Renaissance architecture. NICE!
It is a Roman Catholic minor basilica, the mother church of the Servite order. The church was founded in 1250 by the 7 original members of the Servite order. In 1252, a painting of the Annunciation.
Very small square! Very typical Restaurants and Artist Bar! GOOD RESTAURANTS: Osteria Tripperia il Magazzino (Very Typical Florence Food) and Trattoria 4 Leoni!
It is named from the Church in honour of Saint Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan.
Here converge almost the entire bus-line and tramways. It is the biggest and masterpiece of Rationalism Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station, that is used by 59,000,000 people every year.
It is a church. The name cestello derives from the Cistercians who occupied the church in 1628. Previously the site had a 1450s church attached to the cloistered Carmelite convent of Santa Maria.
It was created in the 19th century. It host the triumphal arch of Florence and the Parterre where in winter is set an ice rink for skating. In this square is located the beautiful triumphal arch.
Realized when Florence was Capital of Italy, was dedicated to Cesare Bonesana marchese di Beccaria in 1876. Around Porta alla Croce there are some concave neoclassical palaces. Very Good Bars!
Good Museum San Marco beside the church! It is housed in what was the cloisters of the monastery, taken over in 1437 by the Dominican order and funded by Lorenzo de Medici. The quarters of University.
The name comes from the church of St. James, which is dedicated to the nearby church of San Jacopo in Polverosa. The church once stood in the square but was demolished following the Second World War.
It is currently the home of Fiorentina. It was built in 1931 and holds 47,290. The architect is Nervi (knows by Nervi Hall in Vatican). It is one of most relevant example of 20th century architecture.
The core of medieval Florence in the area between the church of S.Martino and Piazza dei Donati, was the 13th century location of the houses of the Alighieri family, as reported in many old documents.
It was founded in 1927 by the University of Florence. It is located in the Piazza dei Giudici. Among the more famous of its collections is the middle finger from the right hand of Galileo Galilei.
The museum features many artefacts from the 15th to 19th century, mostly pioneering scientific instruments including world globes, stethoscopes, navigation instruments and telescopes.
The Museo Galileo (before 2010 known as the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, IMSS, Italian: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza) is based in Florence close to the Uffizi Gallery.
He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer, etc... whose genius!
It organises activities and educational workshops for kids here and in the Museo di Storia della Scienza and Museo Stibbert. Budding historians and their parents can hang out with actors dressed up.
A permanent exhibition from its rich and culturally significant archive, preserved and amplified throughout the years, is juxtaposed with contemporary art installations supported by the Pinault Fond.
It was probably founded in the 9th-8th century BC, as it was an important member of the Etruscan confederacy, as may be seen from the remains of its ancient walls. AMZING VIEW OF FLORENCE FROM HERE!!!
It was an independent town for several centuries in the early Middle Ages, no less powerful than Florence. Dante reflects this rivalry in his Divine Comedy by referring to "the beasts of Fiesole".
Peretola is a small airport with a single runway and the main taxiway is situated at the end of runway. In 1990 was named after Florence native Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant and cartographer.
The station is used by 59 million people every year and is one of the busiest in Italy. Very good the service with Train by Freccia Rossa to Milan, Rome, Venice, Naples and Bologna.
The station is also used by regional trains on lines connecting to Pisa, Livorno, Lucca, Viareggio, Siena, Poggibonsi, Arezzo, Grosseto, Prato, Bologna, Faenza, etc...
