This government palace with a defensive role (one side of it forms the western walls of Scarperia), has undergone several changes over the centuries. The original core built on the tower was modified...
Situated on a mound in the middle of Piazzale Donatello, the Protestant cemetery was used between 1827 and 1877. The tombs are not arranged in orderly rows but in a rather Romantic fashion accentuated...
The Monumental Cemetery of Antella, a locality in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, is an extremely interesting place from an artistic point of view, due to its particular history and grandeur. When...
On the beautiful hill of San Miniato al Monte, at the foot of the Romanesque church is one of the most important monumental cemeteries in Florence, the Cimitero delle Porte sante. You can see the...
The Allori Cemetery is an extraordinary place where you have the opportunity to feel art and history. Inaugurated in 1878, the Cemetery was created to give a proper burial to non-Catholics not...
In 1864, Giuseppe Fabbricotti bought “Lo Strozzino” property and, in the same year, he commissioned architect Vincenzo Micheli to turn the old hunting lodge into a luxurious residence. None of the...
The Villa Medici at Castello is one of the oldest suburban residences of the Medici family, who came into possession of it in 1477. In 1538 Cosimo I commissioned the sculptor and architect Niccolò...
***The garden is temporarily closed Formerly the garden of a Medici house, it became an Italian style garden in the XVII Century. At the end of the XIXth century the Director of the Museum of...
The garden is set up simply and rationally, with features evoking 15th-Century gardens. The wall fountain with the Riccardi Hercules is north, the loggia closed by the Riccardi family is south...
The park of the Stibbert Museum surrounds the building where Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906) lived and collected his precious items. Outside the villa there was a plain park which was completely...
