Most of the works hosted in this museum come from the adjoining Collegiate Church of San Andrea; the church was built in 1093, while the façade was probably added during the 12th century, following...
At the beginning of the 18th century, Domenico Michelacci started straw production on an industrial scale and until the 1950s Signa became the centre of the manufacture of hats made of this material...
The fame and fortune of the sanctuary is based on the cult of a miraculous image of the Madonna, considered to be the protectress of Florence, which is traditionally attributed to Saint Luke the...
The museum is housed in premises next to the Parish Church of San Pietro a Cascia, one of the masterpieces of Tuscan Romanesque architecture. The basilica, dating to the 11th century, has a nave and...
In Leonardo’s birthplace in Anchiano, a cluster of houses about two kilometres from Vinci, there is a permanent exhibition. In the home, the audio-video narration Leonardo in Vinci: A Genius Tells His...
The Sanctuary of Saint Verdiana was built with the aim of giving a worthy home to the remains of Verdiana, the patron saint of Castelfiorentino, a woman of humble origins, who lived between the 12th...
Giovanni Michelucci, a great protagonist of 20th century Italian culture, was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 20th century. In the Foundation's headquarters, Villa Il Roseto which is the...
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...
Since centuries in Quinto, on the slopes of Monte Morello, there rises La Montagnola (the little mountain) - a mound of earth which due to its regular shape, had long suggested an artificial origin...
The upper part of the city of Signa, the Castle, constitutes the oldest core of the city - founded around the year 1000 - and looks surrounded by remains of 14th-century walls, with imposing towers...
