In the eastern area of Cascine Park, near piazza Vittorio Veneto, there is the Pavoniere swimming pool. It takes its name from the aviaries (“pavoniere”) shaped like neoclassical temples that can...
Palazzo Rucellai is one of the most elegant Renaissance palaces in all of Italy. The façade, designed around 1465 by Leon Battista Alberti, is a sort of illustration of his famous Treatise on...
Piazza de' Pitti, almost completely dominated by the imposing ashlar facade of Palazzo Pitti, is one of the most beautiful squares, recently pedestrianized, in the Oltrarno. The Pitti complex, in...
Piazza della Calza is immediately behind the city gate Porta Romana, bordered by the walls of Florence - the still well-preserved section of Viale Petrarca and the perimeter wall of the Boboli Gardens...
The Loggia del Pesce (fish loggia) which is located today in Piazza dei Ciompi, is a project by Giorgio Vasari commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1567. The loggia was intended to house...
The square is dominated by the Church and, on the right side of the facade, the Museo di San Marco (Saint Mark Museum, famous for Beato Angelico's Renaissance paintings). Following the example of the...
Not many among the Florentines know about Quercione trough, called Fountain of Boccacce, situated in the middle of one of the vast lawns of Cascine Park, The structure standing in the middle of the...
The Palazzina Reale, or the Grand Ducal Villa is located in the exact center of Cascine Park, on a large square guarded by four lionesses-sphinxes, neo-egyptian decorations added at the end of the...
The pyramid-shaped ice house, built to keep the cold inside even in the warmest seasons and which nothing has to do with Egypt, is located near Pavoniere, in viale degli Olmi. It’s a ten-meters high...
Among the numerous fountains that can be found in Cascine Park, one of the most significant ones is the Fountain of Narcissus, realized in 1791 by florentine architect Giuseppe Manetti who added to it...
