Among the numerous fountains that can be found in Cascine Park, one of the most significant ones is the Fountain of Narcissus, realized in 1791 by florentine architect Giuseppe Manetti who added to it [...]
Piazza Vittorio Veneto was, in Giuseppe Poggi’s project, the access point to Cascine Park. In its center, the Vittorio Emanuele II’s equestrian statue stands tall. Originally, this monument, designed [...]
Fondazione per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione (FRI) includes as partners the University of Florence, the Metropolitan City of Florence and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. FRI promotes [...]
Piazza San Lorenzo, not far from the Cathedral and Palazzo Medici Riccardi, is dominated by the bulk of the Basilica of San Lorenzo and, in the back-ground (the nearby piazza Madonna degli [...]
The castle is located in Santa Brigida, a village near Pontassieve, and its original nucleus dates back to the 12th century. It was owned by the Pazzi family until the end of the 15th century when [...]
One of the two exercise yards of the Florentine prison of the Murate has become a new city square: Piazza Madonna della Neve. The square, which is fully pedestrianised, is entirely surrounded by the [...]
Piazza Santa Maria Soprarno is a tiny square, named after a church that no longer exists. One of the oldest parish churches of the Oltrarno, dedicated to Santa Maria and also known as Santa Maria de' [...]
The name of Piazza Poggi, overlooking the Arno River, dates back to 1911 when it was named after the architect who completely redesigned Florence at the end of the 19th century. Previously, the area [...]
The Third Garden is an unusual park on the Arno river bank, very close to the idea of a small nature reserve, where fauna and flora regain their rightful place within the urban setting. This is why it [...]
The name Via dei Renai reveals that here was a deposit of sand left by the river Arno. Before the redesigning of the river banks by Giuseppe Poggi, this whole area was called Piazza delle Molina [...]
