Points of interest

The new tourist information office for the city of Florence, the Area and the entire region is located in Piazza Stazione 5, in the historic but renovated premises of the Santa Maria Novella Complex [...]

The Vasari Corridor ("Corridoio vasariano") was built by the celebrated architect Giorgio Vasari in just five months during 1565 to enable the Grand Dukes to move freely – and safely – from the seat [...]

This museum collects the historical and artistic heritage of the ancient Spedale degli Innocenti, a building designed at the beginning of the 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi, in order to welcome [...]

The Bargello National Museum is a place of extraordinary interest. The evocative medieval building houses a unique collection of Italian sculpture, mainly from the Renaissance period (masterpieces by [...]

The Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi is situated near the marshes of Fucecchio, which is rich in wildlife and was built by Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge. Work started in 1556 and the design with [...]

The St. Mark's Museum, commonly known as the ‘Beato Angelico's museum’, occupies the spaces of the former Dominican convent that Michelozzo rebuilt in Renaissanche style on the commission of Cosimo il [...]

The Ceramics Archive preserves the manufacturing history of Sesto Fiorentino, where the ceramics and porcelain industry was a driving force until the post-war period. Ceramics are the beating heart of [...]

Located in the very heart of Valdelsa, this is one of the ‘New Jerusalems’ built in the 16th–17th centuries, mainly in central and northern Italy, to enable people to make a pilgrimage to the Holy [...]

A new urban park has been created in the neighbourhood of Sorgane, a few kilometres from the centre of Florence, on a previously derelict site. The Municipality of Bagno a Ripoli has carried out [...]

On the road connecting Florence with Bologna is a beautiful park that is also a Unesco heritage site: the Parco Mediceo di Pratolino In the second half of the 16th century, Francesco I de’ Medici [...]