Points of interest

The Convent and Church of San Francesco were erected at the end of the 14th century on top of the hill dominating Fiesole. The museum (entrance inside the church) was established to preserve the...

The museum is named after Canon Angelo Maria Bandini (1726–1803), a scholar and art collector, and houses various medieval and Renaissance paintings, including work by Taddeo Gaddi, a Crucifixion by...

The Oratory, dating back to 1602, was built based on a design by Matteo and Giovanni Nigetti; it is a large hall entirely covered in frescoes. The ceiling paintings are by Giovanni Martinelli, Lorenzo...

The Sanctuary of Saint Verdiana was built with the aim of giving a worthy home to the remains of Verdiana, the patron saint of Castelfiorentino, a woman of humble origins, who lived between the 12th...

The cloister of the Scalzo (barefoot) is the entrance to the chapel of the Confraternity of Saint John the Baptist – known as the ‘Scalzo’ order because during processions the cross-bearer went...

The park was originally conceived for the private villa built by the architect Giuseppe Poggi for the Archinto family between 1839 and 1853, and included a small Romantic lake with a tiny island and...

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...

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) was a well-known composer and pianist of the XX° century. He is the author of operas, texts for orchestras, piano and Lied singer. His XVIII century's house hosts a Center...

The chosen venue for the museum is the Magazzino del Sale, an historical venue which had been used to stock salt from Volterra’s salines from 1365 up until the end of the 19th century. Empoli was a...

The Arnovecchio area, located in an eroded riverbed of the Arno that was corrected during the 16th century, was marked in more recent times by extraction activities for the production of gravel...