Points of interest

The pyramid-shaped ice house, built to keep the cold inside even in the warmest seasons and which nothing has to do with Egypt, is located near Pavoniere, in viale degli Olmi. It’s a ten-meters high...

Among the numerous fountains that can be found in Cascine Park, one of the most significant ones is the Fountain of Narcissus, realized in 1791 by florentine architect Giuseppe Manetti who added to it...

Piazza Vittorio Veneto was, in Giuseppe Poggi’s project, the access point to Cascine Park. In its center, the Vittorio Emanuele II’s equestrian statue stands tall. Originally, this monument, designed...

Piazza San Lorenzo, not far from the Cathedral and Palazzo Medici Riccardi, is dominated by the bulk of the Basilica of San Lorenzo and, in the back-ground (the nearby piazza Madonna degli...

The castle is located in Santa Brigida, a village near Pontassieve, and its original nucleus dates back to the 12th century. It was owned by the Pazzi family until the end of the 15th century when...

One of the two exercise yards of the Florentine prison of the Murate has become a new city square: Piazza Madonna della Neve. The square, which is fully pedestrianised, is entirely surrounded by the...

Piazza Santa Maria Soprarno is a tiny square, named after a church that no longer exists. One of the oldest parish churches of the Oltrarno, dedicated to Santa Maria and also known as Santa Maria de'...

The settlement of the Augustinian Hermits in an area of ​​the Oltrarno (the area beyond the river Arno) included within the city walls of 1173 dates back to 1250 and is of fundamental importance for...

This square - piazza dei Cavalleggeri - opening onto the Arno at Lungarno alle Grazie is dominated by the imposing mass of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Actually, history tells us of a property...

The nucleus from which the National Central Library of Florence was born was the private library of Antonio Magliabechi, consisting of some 30,000 volumes, which in 1714 was left, according to his...