Points of interest

The church of San Salvatore in Ognissanti was founded in the mid-thirteenth century by the Umiliated friars, a religious order that was dedicated to the processing and trade of wool, taking advantage...

San Miniato al Monte, founded in 1018, is one of the most extraordinary exemples of Romanesque architecture in Tuscany, and stands on the top of a hill overlooking the city, offering a great panorama...

The Augustinian complex of Santo Spirito of one of the great religious and artistic monuments of 15th century Florence. The basilica was designed by Brunelleschi and begun in 1444, but was still...

The museum houses the collection built up by Herbert Percy Horne, a collector and scholar of English origin who settled in Florence at the end of the 19th century. He furnished a small 15th-century...

The Refectory of Sant'Apollonia occupies part of the former monastery of the Benedictines of Saint Apollonia; open as a museum, it houses detached frescoes and sinopie by Andrea del Castagno and 15th...

The palace is a fine example of an 18th-century upper-class residence and the collecting taste of its owners, and preserves the furnishings of the time. In 1738 the Martelli family transformed the...

Piazzale Michelangelo, the most famous panoramic terrace of the Florence... The works for the construction of the square ended in 1875. The entire square should have become a monument to Michelangelo...

Founded in 1819 by Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, a merchant of Genevan origin, the G. P. Vieusseux Scientific-Literary Cabinet was a reading cabinet, open to conversation and exchange of ideas. It houses a...

A short walk from Piazza Santissima Annunziata is the Brunelleschi Rotunda , a sober building with a long history. Filippo Brunelleschi designed it in the 1430s as a centrally planned building, part...

Residence of the Corsini family, the Palazzo Corsini al Prato via the entrance on Via il Prato gives access to the stupendous Italian garden, a large geometric parterre of boxwood hedges adorned with...