Villa Romana is a place of contemporary artistic production and of international exchange. Only ten minutes away from the city centre of Florence, it combines the peacefulness of a neoclassical villa...
On the banks of the Arno River, at Il Girone, lies this war cemetery. It was July 1943 when allied troops from America and Commonwealth landed in Sicily. These armies reached the peninsula only on...
T he Jewish Monumental Cemetery established in 1777, remained in operation until 1870. A high perimeter wall encloses an important cultural treasure consisting of funerary chapels and monuments, among...
The Gherardesca garden occupied the last green space before the ancient city walls. The ancient garden had a masterly restoration by Pietro Porcinai. After having been at the centre of a radical new...
Ugolino Grifoni, secretary of Cosimo I , asked Bartolomeo Ammannati to build the villa and the garden. The works, started in 1563, lasted 10 years, and created a garden rich in philosophical meanings...
In 1591 Alessandro Acciaiuoli bought the land and entrusted the building of the palace to Buontalenti. The work wasn't completed due to financial problems, and the property was sold in 1621 to Filippo...
In the 15th century the area of the garden was part of the ancient kitchen-garden of the Annalena nuns. At the beginning of the 19th century the marquis Tommaso Corsi became the owner and entrusted to...
Property of Bernardo Rucellai, the garden was the seat for the meetings of literary men, humanists, philosophers and historians (like Machiavelli, Buondelmonti, Jacopo da Diacceto and Luigi Alemanni)...
Romanesque church. It contains a marbel pulpit of the XII century, decorated with black and white marble. The legend says that Dante and Boccaccio spoke from this pulpit.
The church of Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the oldest in the city and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It has a rough exterior in pietra forte; the first building was in Romanesque style while its...
