Points of interest

You enter the square from Borgo San Frediano, Borgo Stella, via Santa Monaca and Piazza Piattellina. The name refers to the Carmelite church, Santa Maria del Carmine, which dominates the square [...]

The Parish Church of San Pietro a Pitiana (Donnini), in Romanesque style with a 16th-century portico, houses paintings by Ridolfo Del Ghirlandaio (16th century) and offers a wonderful panoramic view [...]

Among the green mountains of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, isolated on a ridge, lies the Gamogna Hermitage, founded in 1053 by Saint Pier Damiani. The hermitage was dedicated to Saint Barnaba and [...]

The church of San Michele a Volognano preserves a very lovely Madonna and Child that is attributed to Lorenzo di Bicci, of the end of the 14th century and formerly part of a triptych that was [...]

The archaeological area of Castelluccio occupies a small hill in the relief overlooking the Valdarno area of Rignano. Given its proven nature as a sealed stratigraphic deposit, the presence of [...]

The origin of the Medici bridge, which connects the historic village of Pontassieve with the hamlet of San Francesco di Pelago, dates back to the half of the XVI century, when Cosimo I de’ Medici [...]

One place in Impruneta testifies more than others the traditional working of terracotta and is the Agresti Furnace. Its importance derives not only from the historical value of the building complex [...]

Devoted to the village’s most illustrious child, the painter Andrea del Castagno, the museum takes visitors on an imaginary journey through the 15th-century master’s artistic career by means of [...]

The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo houses, for conservation reasons, a whole series of works of art from the Santa Maria del Fiore complex (Cathedral, Baptistery and Bell Tower). A complete refurbishment [...]

The Academy Gallery (Galleria dell'Accademia) in Florence is known around the world as the ‘ Michelangelo Museum’ (for the statues of David and the Prisoners), but it is actually much more than that [...]