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Florence Cathedral

Santa Maria del Fiore is a masterpiece of Renaissance art and architecture. With its magnificent red-tiled dome designed by Brunelleschi and a facade that delights in shades of pink, white, and green marble, the Duomo commands the city's landscape. Build between 1296 and 1436, it claims the title of the third-largest cathedral in Europe, surpassed only by St. Peter’s in Rome and the Duomo in Milan. Inside, the cathedral shelters artistic treasures from Michelangelo to Donatello, alongside stunning frescoes.

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Uffizi

This world class art gallery houses the largest collection of Italian Renaissance art in the world and is a premier destination for art enthusiasts and historians alike. Located in the magnificent Palazzo degli Uffizi in over 100 rooms, masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci astonish millions of visitors every year. The Medici family's legacy is omnipresent, their collection a gift to Florence ensuring the city's eternal connection to the Renaissance.

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Ponte Vecchio

Spanning the Arno River in Florence with its medieval stone arches, the Ponte Vecchio is adorned with a vibrant trail of jewellery and souvenir shops. The iconic bridge connects the city's cultural heartbeats:

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Galleria dell'Accademia

The highlight of this art museum is Michelangelo's David, his most challenging project. Carved from a single, imperfect block of marble, this iconic statue captivates with its intricate details and lifelike expressions. The gallery also features his unfinished works, the Prisoners and Saint Matthew, alongside a curated collection of Florentine paintings from the 13th to the 16th centuries, including Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. With over 1.46 million visitors (2016), the galleria is Italy's second-most-visited art museum.

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Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio, with its imposing structure and commanding presence, is one of Florence's top sights. This historic building serves as the city's town hall and casts its gaze over the bustling Piazza della Signoria, an iconic square adorned with a replica of Michelangelo's David.

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Piazza della Signoria

The Piazza della Signoria is the historic and vibrant heart of Florence, located in front of the imposing Palazzo Vecchio. This bustling square houses an impressive collection of statues and monuments, resembling an open-air museum that attracts tourists from around the world. A visit to the piazza is essential for anyone visiting Florence.

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Basilica di Santa Croce

The Basilica di Santa Croce, located in the heart of Florence, is an impressive landmark and the largest Franciscan church in Italy. Known as the "Pantheon of Florence," it houses the tombs of famous figures such as Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Machiavelli. The basilica's facade, a masterpiece of neo-Gothic style, is elegant and beautiful. Inside, you will find magnificent frescoes by Giotto depicting the life of Saint Francis, as well as Donatello's splendid "Deposition from the Cross."

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Piazza del Duomo

When visiting Florence, a stop at Piazza del Duomo is an absolute must – the heart of the city and a place filled with unique architecture. Dominating the square is the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, whose iconic dome by Brunelleschi defines Florence's skyline.

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Piazzale Michelangelo

Piazzale Michelangelo is undeniably one of the most popular viewpoints in Florence. Perched on a hill south of the Arno, it offers stunning panoramic views of the city, including the Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, and the Tuscan hills. At sunset, crowds gather to witness the Renaissance city bathed in golden light.

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Santa Maria Novella

The Basilica di Santa Maria Novella is one of the most significant churches in Florence and a masterpiece of Gothic and Renaissance architecture. It is located at Piazza Santa Maria Novella, directly opposite the train station of the same name. The magnificent facade, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, was completed in 1470. The complex includes the church, two cloisters, and several monastic buildings.

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Brunelleschi's dome

The "dome of Brunelleschi" is the covering of the crossing of the Duomo of Florence; at the time of its construction, it was the largest dome in the world and remains the largest masonry dome ever built. [https://duomo.firenze.it/it/opera-magazine/post/4743/brunelleschi-e-la-genesi-di-un-capolavoro] Due to its fundamental importance for the subsequent development of architecture and the modern concept of building, it is still considered by some to be the most important architectural work ever constructed in Europe since the Roman era ("History of European Architecture," ed. Laterza, 2006).

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Palazzo Pitti

The Palazzo Pitti, just a stone's throw from the Ponte Vecchio, was once the residence of the Medici and now houses some of Florence’s most important museums.

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Mercato Centrale

The Central Market (mercato centrale) is a two-level, indoor food market and part of the larger San Lorenzo market.

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David

"David" is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of , the "David" was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. "David" was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of twelve prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. In 1910 a a replica was installed at the original site on the public square.

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Basilica of San Lorenzo

The "Basilica di San Lorenzo" is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence, having been consecrated in 393 AD, at which time it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral, before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata.

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Medici Chapels

The "Medici Chapels," built as a burial place for the Medici family, are now a state museum in Florence, located within certain areas of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. Today, it is managed independently by the Bargello Museum group.

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Florence Baptistery

The "Florence Baptistery", also known as the "Baptistery of Saint John", is a religious building in Florence, Italy. Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist, it has been a focus of religious, civic, and artistic life since its completion. The octagonal baptistery stands in both the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza San Giovanni, between Florence Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace.

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Palazzo Medici Riccardi

The "Palazzo Medici", also called the "Palazzo Medici Riccardi" after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy. It is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Florence and a museum.

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Boboli Gardens

The "Boboli Gardens" is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which later served as inspiration for many European courts. The large green area is a real open-air museum with statues of various styles and periods, ancient and Renaissance that are distributed throughout the garden. It also has large fountains and caves, among them the splendid Buontalenti grotto built by the artist, architect, and sculptor Bernardo Buontalenti between 1536 and 1608.

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Giotto's Campanile

"Giotto's Campanile" is a free-standing campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.

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Basilika San Miniato al Monte

"San Miniato al Monte" is a basilica in Florence, central Italy, standing atop one of the highest points in the city. It has been described as one of the finest Romanesque structures in Tuscany and one of the most scenic churches in Italy. There is an adjoining Olivetan monastery, seen to the right of the basilica when ascending the stairs.[http://www.borghiditoscana.net/eng/tuscany/firenze/firenze/sanminiatoalmonte/index.html Borgi di Toscana: Basilica of san minato al Monte, Florence]

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Piazza della Repubblica

"Piazza della Repubblica" is a city square in Florence, Italy. It was originally the site of the city's forum; then of its old ghetto, which was swept away during the improvement works, or "Risanamento", initiated during the brief period when Florence was the capital of a reunited Italy—work that also created the city's avenues and boulevards. At that time, the Loggia del Pesce from the Mercato Vecchio was also moved to Piazza Ciompi. The square's Giubbe Rosse cafe has long been a meeting place for famous artists and writers, notably those of Futurism.

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Porcellino

"Il Porcellino" is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca shortly before 1634,The commission, from Cosimo II de' Medici, dated to 1621. following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and removed to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of its rediscovery with the Calydonian Boar of Greek myth.

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Bargello

The "Bargello", also known as the "Palazzo del Bargello" or "Palazzo del Popolo", is a former barracks and prison in Florence, Italy. Since 1865, it has housed the "Museo Nazionale del Bargello", a national art museum.

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Palazzo Strozzi

"Palazzo Strozzi" is a palace in Florence, Italy.

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Loggia dei Lanzi

The "Loggia dei Lanzi", also called the "Loggia della Signoria", is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines that Michelangelo proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria.

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Hospital of Innocents

The "Ospedale degli Innocenti" 'Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the "Spedale degli Innocenti", is a historic building in Florence, Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in 1419 from the Arte della Seta. It was originally a children's orphanage. It is regarded as a notable example of early Italian Renaissance architecture. The hospital, which features a nine bay loggia facing the Piazza SS. Annunziata, was built and managed by the "Arte della Seta" or Silk Guild of Florence. That guild was one of the wealthiest in the city and, like most guilds, took upon itself philanthropic duties.

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Holy Trinity

"The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors" is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Masaccio in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. The fresco was among Masaccio's last major commissions and is often cited as one of the first monumental Renaissance paintings to utilize linear perspective.

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Santo Spirito

The "Basilica di Santo Spirito" is a church in Florence, Italy. Usually referred to simply as "Santo Spirito", it is located in the Oltrarno quarter, facing the square with the same name. The interior of the building – internal length – is one of the preeminent examples of Renaissance architecture.

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Opera del Duomo Museum

The "Museo dell'Opera del Duomo" in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for Florence Cathedral, including the adjacent Florence Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. Most of the exterior sculptures have been removed from these cathedral buildings, usually replaced by replica pieces, with the museum conserving the originals.

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Perseus with the Head of Medusa

"Perseus with the Head of Medusa" is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545–1554. The sculpture stands on a square base which has bronze relief panels depicting the story of Perseus and Andromeda, similar to a predella on an altarpiece.Shearman, “Art or Politics,”. It is located in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy. The second Florentine duke, Cosimo I de' Medici, commissioned the work with specific political connections to the other sculptural works in the piazza. When the piece was revealed to the public on 27 April 1554, Michelangelo's "David", Bandinelli's "Hercules and Cacus", and Donatello's "Judith and Holofernes" were already installed in the piazza.

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Basilica of the Most Holy Annunciation

The "Basilica della Santissima Annunziata" is a Renaissance-style, Catholic minor basilica in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. This is considered the mother church of the Servite Order. It is located at the northeastern side of the Piazza Santissima Annunziata near the city center.

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Fountain of Neptune

The "Fountain of Neptune" in Florence, Italy," is situated in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of Francesco de' Medici I to Grand Duchess Joanna of Austria. Cosimo I de' Medici was the Duke of Florence from 1537-1569 and responsible for a vast number of architectural and artistic elements in Florence that still exist today.

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Museo Galileo

"Museo Galileo" is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, is housed in Palazzo Castellani, an 11th-century building which was then known as the Castello d'Altafronte.

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Brancacci Chapel

The "Brancacci Chapel" is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance"Cf. B. Berenson, "The Italian Painters Of The Renaissance", Pahidon. for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period. Construction of the chapel was commissioned by Felice Brancacci and begun in 1422. The paintings were executed over the years 1425 to 1427. Public access is currently gained via the neighbouring convent, designed by Brunelleschi. The church and the chapel are treated as separate places to visit and as such have different opening times and it is quite difficult to see the rest of the church from the chapel.

Italian Football Hall of Fame

The "Italian Football Hall of Fame" is the hall of fame for association football players that have had a significant impact on Italian football.

Museo Nazionale di San Marco

"Museo Nazionale di San Marco" is an art museum housed in the monumental section of the medieval Dominican convent of San Marco dedicated to St Mark, situated on the present-day Piazza San Marco, in Florence, a region of Tuscany, Italy.

Orsanmichele

"Orsanmichele" is a church in the Italian city of Florence. The building was constructed on the site of the kitchen garden of the monastery of San Michele which no longer exists.

Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella

The "Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella" is a perfumery and herbalist shop in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It is not a pharmacy and does not sell medicines, but is sometimes described as "the oldest pharmacy in the world".

Parco delle Cascine

The "Parco delle Cascine " is a monumental and historical park in the city of Florence. The park covers an area of 160 hectares. It has the shape of a long and narrow stripe, on the north bank of the Arno river. It extends from the centre of Florence until the point where the Mugnone flows into the Arno.

Fortezza da Basso

"Fortezza da Basso" is a fort inserted in the fourteenth century walls of Florence. Its official name is the Fortress of Saint John the Baptist. In modern times it is home to numerous conferences, concerts and national and international exhibitions, such as Pitti Immagine. Its total area is nearly 100,000 square meters.

Forte di Belvedere

The "Forte di Belvedere" or "Fortezza di Santa Maria in San Giorgio del Belvedere" is a fortification in Florence, Italy.

Gates of Paradise

The "Gates of Paradise" is the east door of the Baptistery of Florence, the main one located in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Created by the goldsmith and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452, it represents his masterpiece, as well as one of the most famous works of the Florentine Renaissance. Completely gilded, it was nicknamed "of Paradise" by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Damaged during the flood of Florence, the original panels, after being restored, are kept in the nearby Museum of the Opera del Duomo.

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

The "Piazza della Santissima Annunziata" is a square in the city of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy. The Piazza is named after the church of the Annunziata at the head of the square. In the center of the piazza is the bronze Equestrian statue of Ferdinando I and two Mannerist fountains with fantastical figures, all works completed by the Late Renaissance sculptor Pietro Tacca.

Stibbert Museum

The "Stibbert Museum" is located on via Frederick Stibbert on the hill of Montughi in Florence, Italy. The museum contains over 36,000 artifacts, including a vast collection of armour from Eastern and Western civilizations.

Great Synagogue of Florence

The "Great Synagogue of Florence" is one of the largest synagogues in South-central Europe, situated in Florence, in Italy. The synagogue of Florence was one of the most important synagogues built in Europe in the age of the Jewish emancipation, reached by the Jewish communities living in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1848.

Giardino delle Rose

"Giardino delle rose" is a garden park in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is located below the Piazzale Michelangelo and offers a commanding view of the city.

Vasari Corridor

The "Vasari Corridor" is an elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, central Italy, connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. Beginning on the south side of the Palazzo Vecchio, it joins the Uffizi Gallery and leaves on its south side, crossing the Lungarno dei Archibusieri, then following the north bank of the River Arno until it crosses the river at Ponte Vecchio. At the time of construction, the corridor had to be built around the Torre dei Mannelli, using brackets, because the tower's owners refused to alter it. The corridor conceals part of the façade of the Church of Santa Felicità. It then snakes its way over rows of houses in the Oltrarno district, becoming narrower, to finally join the Palazzo Pitti. The corridor's full length is approximately one kilometre.

Santa Maria del Carmine

"Santa Maria del Carmine" is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.

National Archaeological Museum

The "National Archaeological Museum of Florence" is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy. It is located at 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta.

Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

The "Teatro Comunale di Firenze" is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the "Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele", which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city. After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882. By 1911 it had both electricity and heating.

Porta Romana

The "Porta Romana", once known as the "Porta San Pier Gattolino" was the southernmost gate in the 13th-century walls of the Oltrarno section of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It stands at the confluence of a number of roads: accessed from north by Via Romana, Via de' Serragli, and Viale Francesco Petrarca. In addition, a central road along the Boboli Gardens begins near the gate, and allowed the inhabitants of the Pitti Palace to exit and enter Florence with minimal travel on city streets. Beyond the gates are the Via del Poggio Imperiale and Via Senese. The latter led to Siena and points south such as Rome, hence the name. When the majority of the defensive walls of Florence were razed in the 19th century, only a few, and sometimes partial gate structures were left standing including San Gallo Gate, Tower of San Niccolò, and this gate with a snippet of merlonated wall.

Piazza San Marco

"Piazza San Marco" is a city square in Florence, Italy. In the center of the piazza is the Monument to Generale Manfredo Fanti.

Villa di Castello

"Villa di Castello," near the hills bordering Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, was the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The gardens, filled with fountains, statuary, and a grotto, became famous throughout Europe. The villa also housed some of the great art treasures of Florence, including Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterpieces "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera". The gardens of the Villa had a profound influence upon the design of the Italian Renaissance garden and the later French formal garden.

Palazzo Rucellai

"Palazzo Rucellai" is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino. Its splendid facade was one of the first to proclaim the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other. The Rucellai Palace demonstrates the impact of the antique revival but does so in a manner which is full of Renaissance originality.

Santa Reparata

"Santa Reparata" is the former cathedral of Florence, Italy. Its name refers to Saint Reparata, an early virgin martyr who is the co-patron saint of Florence. Florence Cathedral was constructed over it.

Bardini Gardens

The "Giardino Bardini" is an Italian Renaissance garden of the Villa Bardini in the hilly part of Oltrarno, offering fine views of Florence, Italy. Opened only recently to the public, it is one of Florence's well kept secrets.

Teatro della Pergola

The "Teatro della Pergola", sometimes known as just "La Pergola", is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name. It was built in 1656 under the patronage of Cardinal Giancarlo de' Medici to designs by the architect Ferdinando Tacca, son of the sculptor Pietro Tacca; its inaugural production was the opera buffa, Il potestà di Colognole by Jacopo Melani.Spike Hughes, "Great Opera Houses", London, 1956; the libretto was by Giovanni Andrea Moniglia 2005, "introduction". The opera house, the first to be built with superposed tiers of boxes rather than raked semi-circular seating in the Roman fashion,As in the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio in the previous century. is considered to be the oldest in Italy, having occupied the same site for more than 350 years.

Laurentian Library

The "Laurentian Library" is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the Medici pope Clement VII, the library was built to emphasize that the Medici were no longer just merchants but members of intelligent and ecclesiastical society. It contains the manuscripts and books belonging to the private library of the Medici family. The library building is renowned for its architecture that was designed by Michelangelo and is an example of Mannerism.

Palazzo Davanzati

"Palazzo Davanzati" is a palace in Florence, Italy. It houses the Museum of the Old Florentine House.

Florence Charterhouse

"Florence Charterhouse" is a charterhouse, or Carthusian monastery, located in the Florence suburb of Galluzzo, in central Italy. The building is a walled complex located on Monte Acuto, at the point of confluence of the Ema and Greve rivers.

Teatro Verdi

"Teatro Verdi" is a theatre in Florence, Italy. Established in 1854, it is located on Via Giuseppe Verdi on the block between Via Ghibellina and Via dei Lavatoi. The Teatro Verdi was originally called "Teatro Pagliano", but was renamed in 1901 to honour Giuseppe Verdi. The theatre is located on the spot where there once stood the 14th-century Stinche Prison.[http://www.florenceholidays.com/florence-vacation-theaters-teatro_verdi.html Florence holidays]

Giardino dell'Orticultura

The "Horticultural Garden" is a garden in Florence located at via Vittorio Emanuele II 4, with a side entrance on via Bolognese 17.

Pazzi Chapel

The "Pazzi Chapel" is a chapel located in the "first cloister" on the southern flank of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Commonly credited to Filippo Brunelleschi, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture.

Villa La Petraia

"Villa La Petraia" is one of the Medici villas in Castello, Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a distinctive 19th-century belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence.

Paszkowski

The "Caffè Paszkowski" at "Piazza della Repubblica" No. 31–35 is a traditional Florentine café.

Loggia del Mercato Nuovo

The "Loggia del Mercato Nuovo", popularly known as the "Loggia del Porcellino", is a building in Florence, Italy. It is so called to distinguish it from the Mercato vecchio that used to be located in the area of today's Piazza della Repubblica.

Palazzo dello Strozzino

"Palazzo dello Strozzino" is a Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. The stone Renaissance facade is located on Piazza degli Strozzi, diagonal to the Southeast corner of the imposing Palazzo Strozzi. The Northern façade on Via dei Anselmi houses the entrance to the Cinema Odeon.

Opificio delle pietre dure

The "Opificio delle pietre dure", literally meaning "Workshop of semi-precious stones", is a public institute of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage based in Florence. It is a global leader in the field of art restoration and provides teaching as one of two Italian state conservation schools. The institute maintains also a specialist library and archive of conservation and a museum displaying historic examples of "pietre dure" inlaid semi-precious stones artefacts. A scientific laboratory conducts research and diagnostics and provides a preventive conservation service.

Badia Fiorentina

The "Badìa Fiorentina" is an abbey and church now home to the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante. He would have heard the monks singing the Mass and the Offices here in Latin Gregorian chant, as he famously recounts in his "Commedia": "Florence, within her ancient walls embraced, Whence nones and terce still ring to all the town, Abode aforetime, peaceful, temperate, chaste." In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's "Divine Comedy" in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.

Monument to Dante

The "Statue of Dante Alighieri" is a monument to Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce, outside the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, Italy. Erected in 1865, it is the work of the sculptor Enrico Pazzi.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Tt4YAAAAYAAJ Ricordi d'arte], by Enrico Pazzi,,Tipografia Cooperativa, Via Monalda #1, Florence, pages 11–15.

Piazza della Libertà

"Piazza della Libertà" is the northernmost point of the historic centre of Florence, Italy. It was built in the 19th century during the works to produce the Viali di Circonvallazione around the city. It hosts Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine and, in winter, an ice rink for skating.

House of Dante

The "Dante's House Museum" is located in one of the oldest parts of the historic center of Florence, on Via Santa Margherita.

La Specola

The "Museum of Zoology and Natural History", best known as "La Specola", is an eclectic natural history museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name "Specola" means observatory, a reference to the astronomical observatory founded there in 1790. It now forms part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. This museum is part of what are now six different collections at four different sites for the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.

Magi Chapel

The "Magi Chapel" is a chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy. Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted around 1459 for the Medici family, the effective rulers of Florence.

Santa Maria Maggiore

"Santa Maria Maggiore di Firenze" is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. This is among the oldest extant churches in Florence.

Mercato di Sant'Ambrogio

Galleria Palatina

The "Galleria Palatina" is a wing in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, where mainly Renaissance paintings are exhibited. The 25 rooms [http://www.florentinermuseen.com/foto/galleria_palatina/thumbnails/Palatine-Gallery-plan.html floor plan] are the former living quarters of the rulers from the House of Lorraine and were opened to visitors on weekdays by them in 1828. [http://www.florentinermuseen.com/musei/galleria_palatina_florenz.html# www.florentinermuseen.com] In 1919, the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III transferred the palace and the adjacent Baroque Boboli Garden to the Italian state, which turned it into a museum. [https://www.sirenen-und-heuler.de/galleria-palatina-palazzo-pitti/ Sirenen & Heuler - Masterpieces from the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti]

Sagrestia Nuova

The "Sagrestia Nuova" is a space within the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, featuring masterpieces by Michelangelo as both architect and sculptor. Created as a "pendant" to the Sagrestia Vecchia by Brunelleschi and Donatello, it is now part of the museum complex of the Medici Chapels.

Casa Buonarroti

"Casa Buonarroti" is a museum in Florence, Italy that is situated on property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo that he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The complex of buildings was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Its collections include two of Michelangelo's earliest marble sculptures, the "Madonna of the Stairs" and the "Battle of the Centaurs". A ten-thousand book library includes the family archive and some of Michelangelo's letters and drawings.Symonds. "The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, based on studies in the archives of the Buonarroti family at Florence", in two volumes. New York: Scribner. The Galleria is decorated with paintings commissioned by Buonarroti the Younger and was created by Artemisia Gentileschi and other early seventeenth-century Italian artists.

Villa Bardini

"Villa Bardini," formerly "Villa Manadora," is located on San Giorgio 2 in Florence. Today, it is an exhibition center that hosts temporary exhibitions and the Annigoni Museum; until 2017, it also housed the Capucci Museum. The villa's park is the scenic Bardini Garden, which can now be visited separately with the same ticket as the Boboli Gardens. Additionally, the space "Bardinicontemporanea" offers contemporary art exhibitions with free admission.

Piazza Santa Trinita

The "Piazza Santa Trinita" is a triangular square in Florence, Italy, named after the church of Santa Trinita on the west side of the square. The piazza is traversed by the Via de' Tornabuoni. Near the middle of the square is an ancient Roman column known as the Column of Justice due to the sculpture of "Justice" on the top. Several Gothic and Renaissance palaces surround the square, these include: *Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni *Palazzo Buondelmonti *Palazzo Minerbetti *Palazzo Spini Feroni, presently the home of the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum and headquarters of the fashion house of that name.

Murate

"Monastero delle Murate" is a former Benedictine convent on Via Ghibellina in Florence, Italy.

Santa Felicita

"Santa Felicita" is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are thought to have brought Christianity to the region. The first church on the site was probably built in the late 4th century or early 5th century and was dedicated to Saint Felicity of Rome. A new church was built in the 11th century and the current church largely dates from 1736–1739, under design by Ferdinando Ruggieri, who turned it into a one nave edifice. The monastery was suppressed under the Napoleonic occupation of 1808–1810.

Santo Stefano al Ponte

"Santo Stefano al Ponte" is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church, located in the Piazza of the same name, just off the Via Por Santa Maria, near the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is presently used as a concert hall.

San Gaetano

"San Gaetano", also known as "Santi Michele e Gaetano", is a Baroque church in Florence, Italy, located on the Piazza Antinori, entrusted to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.

Palazzo Spini Feroni

"Palazzo Spini Ferroni" is a large Gothic palace located along Via de' Tornabuoni at the corner of Piazza Santa Trinita, in central Florence, Tuscany, Italy. It stands across from the church of Santa Trinita.

Sagrestia Vecchia

The "Sagrestia Vecchia di San Lorenzo", or "Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo", is the older of two sacristies of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy. It is one of the most important monuments of early Italian Renaissance architecture. Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and paid for by the Medici family, who also used it for their tombs, it set the tone for the development of a new style of architecture that was built around proportion, the unity of elements, and the use of the classical orders. The space came to be called the "Old Sacristy" after a new one was begun in 1510 on the other side of S. Lorenzo's transept.

Teatro Tuscanyhall

The "Cartiere Carrara Theater" is a modern theater in Florence, located in the Varlungo/Bellariva area, on Lungarno Aldo Moro 3. Used as a multifunctional center, it is one of the main venues for concerts.

National Central Library

The "National Central Library of Florence" is a public national library in Florence, the largest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe, one of the two central libraries of Italy, along with the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.

Tower of San Niccolò

The "Tower of San Niccolò", once part of a gate or porta in the former defensive walls of Florence, is now located, isolated in piazza Giuseppe Poggi, in the district of Oltrarno, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The portal was first erected in 1324 and stands 115 feet tall, which can be accessed through 160 steps https://palazzosanniccolo.it/en/san-niccolo-tower-experience/

Santi Apostoli

The "Church of Santi Apostoli" is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church in the historic center of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is among the oldest church buildings in Florence.

Palazzo Pucci

The "Palazzo Pucci" is a palace located at Via dei Pucci 4 in central Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy.[http://www.consiglio.regione.toscana.it/default.aspx?nome=PALAZZOPUCCI Council of the Region of Tuscany], entry on palace. The façade of the palace spans from Via dei Servi to Via Ricasoli.

Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I

The "Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I" is a bronze equestrian statue executed by Giambologna from 1587 to 1594, and erected in 1594 in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Last Supper

"The Last Supper" is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Castagno, located in the refectory of the convent of Sant'Apollonia, now the "Museo di Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia", and accessed through a door on Via Ventisette Aprile at the corner with Santa Reparata, in Florence, region of Tuscany. The painting depicts Jesus and the Apostles during the Last Supper, with Judas, unlike all the other apostles, sitting separately on the near side of the table, as is common in depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art.

Orto Botanico di Firenze

The "Orto Botanico di Firenze", also known as the "Giardino dei Semplici", the "Garden of simples",A "simple" is a medicament obtained from an herb, as opposed to a "compound" mixed by the apothecary on instruction from or in collaboration with the doctor. is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Florence. It is located at Via Micheli, 3, Florence, Italy, and open weekday mornings.

Sant'Ambrogio

"Sant'Ambrogio " is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is named in honour of St Ambrose.

Villa del Poggio Imperiale

"Villa del Poggio Imperiale" is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, Central Italy. Beginning as a villa of the Baroncelli of Florence, it was seized by the Medici, became the home of a Medici princess, and a lavish retreat for a Grand Duchess with imperial pretensions. Later given to Napoleon's sister, it was reclaimed by the hereditary rulers of Tuscany before being finally converted to a prestigious girls' school. During its long history, it has often been at the centre of Italy's turbulent history, and has been rebuilt and redesigned many times.

Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi

"Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi" is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church and a former convent located in Borgo Pinti in central Florence, Italy.

Mercato Vecchio

The "Mercato Vecchio" was an area of Florence that was demolished, along with the old Ghetto, between 1885 and 1895 for the creation of Piazza della Repubblica, as part of the so-called urban "rehabilitation."

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