FLORENCE

Leaving Piazza del Duomo and going along Via Martelli, past the Medici-Riccardi Palace, you arrive in Piazza San Lorenzo which is dominated by the Basilica. Among the oldest and most venerated in Florence, San Lorenzo was consecrated in the year […]

This piazza offers a world-renowned view across the city of Florence but, before arriving, make a stop at the attractive church on the right, San Salvatore al Monte. Built between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of […]

  One of the wealthiest merchants of Florence, Filippo Strozzi, built this grand edifice in 1489, in order to imitate, but also to rival, Palazzo Medici. Although the architect was probably Benedetto da Maiano, Simone Pollaiolo, known as “il Cronaca”, […]

This gigantic palace was the city residence, first of the Medici dynasty and then later of the Habsburg-Lorraines. When Florence became the capital of Italy between 1865 and 1871, King Victor Emanuel II of the House of Savoy lived here. […]

Lungarno del Tempio is a fascinating place that, as suggested by its name, offers a wonderful and evocative walk towards the centre along the banks of the Arno river crossing Florence. While walking, the Santa Croce quarter can be reached […]

The great pentagonal mass of the Fortress of San Giovanni is known to everyone as the Fortress “Da Basso” because it is located on the river plain. It was built around the medieval Porta Faenza beginning in 1534 by the […]