Points of interest

Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio carries on the ancient tradition of hand-weaving silk, gold and silver. Our premises are dominated by large hand looms from the late 19th century which, under the...

The city walls of Florence, of which only a few sections remain, were organised as follows: Gates joined by walls, alternating with towers. The distance between the towers was 200 Florentine fathoms...

The city walls of Florence, of which only a few sections remain, were organised as follows: gates joined by walls, alternating with towers. The distance between the towers was 200 Florentine fathoms...

This ancient palace, originally designed by Gherardo Silvani in the seventeenth century, houses an extraordinary pictorial cycle by Sebastiano Ricci, an undisputed protagonist of Italian Rococo in the...

The earliest records date back to 868, and although the structures have been remodelled over the centuries, the parish church of San Martino still retains typically Romanesque features. The structure...

There is still a medieval air about this site where, located within a short distance of each other, are the small parish church of San Leolino in Montanis and the battered but still imposing ruins of...

The ancient parish church is dedicated to Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine who, according to popular devotion, found shelter in these very parts during her wanderings. We are in Rincine, a...

Villa Montalvo consists of two quadrangular bodies, a chapel and a lemon house, surrounded by two historic gardens and located in the Urban Park complex named after the villa itself. The villa...

Described as "fortress of Carlo degli Strozzi" in a list from 1409, the Rocca Strozzi was built a few years earlier right in the centre of the Florence plain by Ubertino di Rossello Strozzi. A defence...

In an area outside the walls, which was in use by the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, the Misericordia of Florence found space for its own cemetery, reserved for the brothers. Around the end of the...