Points of interest

This is a unique museum housed in Calenzano Castle. What makes the museum so interesting and distinctive is its ability to explain and illustrate history in an engaging way through model-making, which [...]

The 15th-century Villa Le Coste, for many years the home of the Florentine painter Primo Conti, is now occupied by the foundation that takes his name. It consists of an archive with over 100,000 [...]

The building where Giovanni Boccaccio – who was born in Certaldo in 1313 – is traditionally thought to have lived has been rebuilt after being damaged in the Second World War. It is now occupied by a [...]

Originally a fortified village dating back to the 13th century BC, the building was converted into a villa in the 16th century, when it came into the possession of the Soderini family (1511–1590) [...]

The villa, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013, was designed by Giuliano da Sangallo for Lorenzo il Magnifico and is an example of Renaissance architecture that combines classical elements [...]

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 [...]

The museum is housed in the former Cenacolo (Refectory) of the Santo Spirito Convent (entrance on the left side of the façade). This evocative setting, adorned with 14th-century frescoes, houses the [...]

Occupying the cellars of Villa Spalletti di Poggio Reale, the museum traces the history of viticulture and winemaking in the Val di Sieve, with particular emphasis on the techniques used. Tools and [...]

Temporarily closed for renovation work. Rodolfo Siviero, who succeeded in bringing back to Italy hundreds of masterpieces that had disappeared during the Second World War, bequeathed his home and art [...]

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 [...]