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...
On the slopes of Monte Giovi, a few kilometers from Vicchio, there is Barbiana, a small village including: the church of Sant’ Andrea, the small cemetery, a few nearby houses, others scattered in the...
Inside the Cathedral steps lead down to the excavations that uncovered the ancient cathedral of Santa Reparata,evidence of the earliest Christianity in Florence, demolished after the new cathedral had...
The abbey was founded in 1036 by a Benedictine monk named San Giovanni Gualberto, gradually growing and taking on its current basic appearance at the end of the 15th century. The tower was erected in...
The Oratory of Vannella is located in Settignano, hilly hamlet of Florence. It was built and frescoed between 1719 and 1721 in memory of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a young girl named Vanna...
The refectory of the former convent of the Tertiary Franciscans of Foligno is decorated with a 15th-century fresco of the Last Supper with the Agony in the Garden in the background; rediscovered in...
After the death of Indro Montanelli, the contents of his studies in Milan and Rome were moved to Fucecchio, into Palazzo Montanelli della Volta, the premises of the foundation set up at the journalist...
The museum occupies the house where Giotto is traditionally thought to have been born in 1267, and acts as an archive centre for documents and accounts relating to the life of the great master. It...
Known as Villa di Bellosguardo since the late fourteenth century, the villa of the Segni family changed ownership in the nineteenth century. The romantic park was created in that period, while the...
The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa...
