‘ Podere La Querciola’ is a protected natural area that extends for about 56 hectares in the Florentine plain. Its public property portion was purchased by the Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino in 2008 [...]
The Collegiate Church of Saints Lawrence and Leonard is located in the historical centre of the city a few metres from the Town Hall and the Palazzo Pretorio. The exterior features a simple gabled [...]
Of all the gates in Florence's city walls, Porta San Frediano, founded in 1333 probably to a design by Andrea Pisano, is the largest and most imposing. Scapitozzata (i.e. lowered) in the 16th century [...]
A new museum dedicated to toys has opened in Florence. The items exhibited (more than a thousand) date from the 18th century to the second half of the 20th century and are a combination of two [...]
The Museo della Misericordia (Florence's Brotherhood of Mercy museum) in Piazza del Duomo in Florence, bears witness with objects and works of art to the long history of this important charitable [...]
Recently restored, the San Lorenzo basilica’s cellar was once the seat of the Compagnia del Santissimo Sacramento, and today hosts the main nucleus of the Museum of the Treasure of San Lorenzo (Museo [...]
A new panoramic park, situated between viale dei Colli and via dei Bstioni, has just been inaugurated. The Parco Michelangelo (the name is temporary) covers the area once occupied by Campeggio [...]
The Roberto Longhi Foundation was born from the testamentary will of the great art historian Roberto Longhi. Located in the hills above Florence, it is housed in the villa where the art historian [...]
In the immediate vicinity of Florence, on the summit of a small hill on the slopes of Fiesole and Settignano, is this small, large church, an authentic jewel set in the typical Tuscan landscape [...]
This square, squeezed between the Oblate Complex and the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, sums up a lot of the history of Florence, of the assistance given over the centuries to the needy and the sick [...]
