Points of interest

The museum is named after its creator, the famous antiquarian Stefano Bardini. The old building that houses it, transformed with the neo-romantic taste of the time (around 1880), became the show-room [...]

Palazzo Medici Riccardi plays a fundamental role in the history of the city of Florence. Commissioned in 1444 by Cosimo il Vecchio, it was the residence of the Medici family on what used to be known [...]

The museum, formerly the ‘Museum of the History of Science’ of Florence, is dedicated to the famous Tuscan scientist, Galileo Galilei, to whom we owe great astronomical discoveries and the birth of [...]

Open since July 2022, the museum collects the archaeological remains that were found in the archaeological site of Gonfienti, between the municipalities of Prato and Campi Bisenzio and is located [...]

Housed in the Palazzina Uzielli and the ancient castle of the counts Guidi, dating back to the 11th century. It is dedicated to Leonardo 's activities as a scientist, technologist and engineer. On [...]

The Rose garden is a green terrace right below Piazzale Michelangelo overlooking the historic centre of the city and enjoying a breath-taking view equal in beauty to that from Forte Belvedere. The [...]

The Franco Zeffirelli Museum in the building complex of San Firenze houses more than 250 works by the Florentine-born Maestro, including scene sketches, drawings and costume designs. It is an unusual [...]

Mensola Park covers an area of about 20 hectares between Settignano and Rovezzano, and connect the village of Ponte a Mensola with the Arno banks through a pedestrian cycle path and a walkway leading [...]

The frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (Santa Maria del Carmine) are to be considered - especially thanks to the extraordinary artistic revolution introduced by Masaccio - among the highest expressions [...]

A new public park in Florence’s District 4, the Santa Maria Park, is situated at Mantignano on the site of a former municipal nursery covering over 5 hectares, which had long been abandoned and [...]