The Loggia del Pesce (fish loggia) which is located today in Piazza dei Ciompi, is a project by Giorgio Vasari commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1567. The loggia was intended to house [...]
The square is dominated by the Church and, on the right side of the facade, the Museo di San Marco (Saint Mark Museum, famous for Beato Angelico's Renaissance paintings). Following the example of the [...]
Not many among the Florentines know about Quercione trough, called Fountain of Boccacce, situated in the middle of one of the vast lawns of Cascine Park, The structure standing in the middle of the [...]
The Palazzina Reale, or the Grand Ducal Villa is located in the exact center of Cascine Park, on a large square guarded by four lionesses-sphinxes, neo-egyptian decorations added at the end of the [...]
The pyramid-shaped ice house, built to keep the cold inside even in the warmest seasons and which nothing has to do with Egypt, is located near Pavoniere, in viale degli Olmi. It’s a ten-meters high [...]
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 [...]
