Points of interest

This cemetery opened in 1960 and here are the headstones of 4,402 military, fallen during the Italian campaign of Second World War. It is not the biggest one in Italy: this primacy goes to Nettuno [...]

The Villa Corsini in Castello, close to the famous Medici Villa La Petraia, was purchased in 1697 by the Counsellor to the Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici, Filippo Corsini. Corsini then entrusted the [...]

The wall on Via degli Alfani, now covered in fish graffito, was erected in 1964 to protect the Department of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Florence. The wall had no artistic [...]

Inside the complex of S. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, founded in 1256 and renovated in Renaissance forms at the end of the fifteenth century, there is the Chapter House decorated, around 1495, with a [...]

After a road that winds its way up through dense forests of holm oaks and cypresses, interspersed with olive groves, you reach the small village of Villamagna, which has developed over the centuries [...]

The Museo delle Cappelle Medicee consists of various rooms, all of inestimable value. These include the New Sacristy by Michelangelo, and the sumptuous Chapel of the Princes, pantheon of the Medici [...]

Florence Cathedral was designed at the end of the 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio and is dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore, a reference to the lily, the city's symbol. The third largest cathedral [...]

The Ferragamo Museum was established in 1995 by Ferragamo family, with the aim of introducing the artistic qualities of Salvatore Ferragamo, the founder of the eponymous company, and his innovations [...]

The educational exhibits in this museum combine model-making and historic reconstruction to introduce visitors to the principal events in Tuscan and Italian history. On display detailed models [...]

In the heart of the Oltrarno district, in San Frediano, there is a centre – the only one of its kind in Italy – dedicated entirely to the fortepiano. Here, amongst the original instruments, visitors [...]