FLORENCE

Campo di Marte is the quarter where the most modern sports facilities in Florence stand. Being the quarter where the Artemio Franchi stadium is located and where the city’s football team performs, it is well connected with all the city […]

The powerful outline of the original, very simple façade of the church of Santo Spirito is impressive. The grandiose interior with its three naves and large columns bears the imprint of Filippo Brunelleschi, who designed it around 1445. The architecture […]

Ricorboli is a quarter on the bank of the Arno river. It is close by the most renowned Florentine tourist areas, it is twenty minutes far from the station by bus and it is very near to the historical centre, […]

Porta al Prato is one of the most ancient gates of the city and its construction dates back to 1284. It contains a fresco depicting the “Virgin Mary with the Holy Child and the Saints” attributed to Michele di Ridolfo […]

This medieval building was constructed in 1255 and was the office of the Podestà, the magistrate whose role was to keep the peace between the different factions in Florence. After 1574, it became the office of the Bargello, the captain […]

Consummate artist that he was, Michelangelo conceived and sculpted this work for his own tomb, which was to have been erected in Rome in Santa Maria Maggiore, as he himself wished.There is a great feeling for the tragic in this […]

The backdrop to this beautiful 14th cloister is the Chapel of the noble Pazzi family, erected around 1445 to the design of Filippo Brunelleschi. It is a masterpieces of Renaissance architecture and is entered through a harmonious portico, and you […]

To the right of the Florence Cathedral stands the celebrated Bell Tower by Giotto di Bondone, started in 1334 by the great painter and architect. After his death in 1337, the work was continued by Andrea Pisano, and later again […]

The Basilica of the Annunciationstands in a Renaissance piazza with rounded porticoes and fine decoration. In the center, there is the equestrian statue of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I, a work from 1608 by Pietro Tacca who was responsible for […]

The church was begun in 1246 with a triple nave built on lightly pointed arches, and completed in 1360. The black and white marble façade, similar to what you have already seen on the exterior of the Baptistery, was started […]