Points of interest

The Antica Spezieria is nowadays located inside the Villa di San Cerbone, the building where Umberto Serristori, in the early 20th century, decided to move the whole Spedale that was previously to be...

The GAMPS geopaleontological collection in Scandicci, near Florence, is a permanent exhibition displaying a large collection of geological and paleontological findings. The collection stems from the...

Limite sull'Arno, a river port on the river of the same name, is home to the oldest rowing club in Italy, founded in 1861, and numerous shipyards: an activity, the latter, that has its origins in the...

The Galileo Factory museum, established in 2006, is located at the Leonardo SpA (formerly Officine Galileo) Electronics Division plant in Campi Bisenzio. Officine Galileo was an important part of...

The Torrini Museum currently presents part of the Historical Archives of the Torrini Museum in its new location at Via San Gallo 9/r

The Botany Section has the most important herbarium in Italy, with about four million specimens. It contains historic collections of dried plants, including one of the oldest (1563) still existing...

Located in the former convent of San Francesco, built in the first half of the 16th century as a hospice for Franciscans travelling between Florence and Siena, the museum houses a collection of...

The museum tells the history of the Etruscan centre of Artimino and its territory, rich in Etruscan remains. It houses the Orientalising grave goods hailing from the necropolises of Prato Rosello and...

The museum adjoining the medieval Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte contains art works and other items of historic interest from buildings belonging to the diocese of Florence. There are a number of...

Piero Bargellini (1897-1980) is, in the memory of all Florentines, the mayor of Florence who had to face the terrible tragedy of the 1966 flood. But not only that, from 1051 to 1956 he had been the...