Points of interest

The Convent of Bosco ai Frati, which dates back to before the year 1000, was rebuilt by Michelozzo in the first half of the 15th century at the wishes of Cosimo de’ Medici, who possessed the nearby...

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 large tower of the heating plant dates back to 1938–1939 and was designed by engineer Vittorio Bonadè Bottino as part of the FIAT industrial complex located at Via di Novoli 2. Separated from the...

The Marino Marini museum houses the Little Temple of the Holy Sepulchre , an interesting and unknown architectural work, placed in an outbuilding of the Convent of St. Pancrazio, later dismembered and...

The Marino Marini Museum, dedicated to the famous 20th-century Italian sculptor, is housed in the former church of San Pancrazio, where Renaissance lines are combined with modern renovation. It is a...

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 Castle of Calenzano still retains the characteristic appearance of a fortified village, with an oval layout typical of hilltop towns, enclosed by walls. Visible from all four cardinal points, it...

The Pagliazza Tower is one of the oldest architectures of Medieval Florence and the only tower left with a circular shape. In the Middle Ages it was a female prison; nowadays it is part of the Hotel...

Palazzo Vecchio is the city's symbolic monument and, for over seven centuries, the seat of its government; it bears extraordinary testimony to all the salient phases of Florence's history and art. It...

The Bastion of San Giorgio owes its name to its proximity to the gate of the same name and is located in Via di Belvedere: it still retains its original dimensions today, running externally along the...