Points of interest

Founded in 1049 by San Giovanni Gualberto, it is a picturesque monastic complex fortified located among the Chianti hills, at Passignano. The architectural complex still appears to be enclosed within [...]

Characterized by typical elements of Romanesque architecture that trace its construction between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the parish church of San Leolino has been renovated several times [...]

In the second half of the 16th century, Bernardo Vecchietti had the park of his villa embellished with an unusual nymphaeum, the Spring of Morgan le Fay , a two-storey building fashioned like 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 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 [...]

The Villa Medici at Castello is one of the oldest suburban residences of the Medici family, who came into possession of it in 1477. In 1538 Cosimo I commissioned the sculptor and architect Niccolò [...]

It was in 1921 that Guccio Gucci opened his company and first store in Florence with a dream and a vision that still lives on today. The Gucci Galleria, situated inside the historic Palazzo della [...]

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 [...]