The tenor Amedeo Bassi was born in Montespertoli, near Florence. His career started here, he became popular in the theatres of all over the world. The museum in his native town shows documents and [...]
The Museum of Costume and Fashion in Florence, located inside the Palazzina della Meridiana next to the southern wing of Pitti Palace, is one of the most important Italian institutions dedicated to [...]
This is one of the first residences of the Medici family. The villa was bought by the father of Cosimo the Elder who had it enlarged by Michelozzo in 1454. It was the seat of the Platonic Academy, and [...]
Occupying premises in the Santi Quirico e Lucia complex in the park of Villa Medicea Ambrogiana, the museum has chronologically arranged exhibits of archaeological finds from the Montelupo area: tools [...]
The Museo Civico is in the 15th-century Palazzo del Podestà in Montaione and contains prehistoric and archaeological finds ranging from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Late Middle Ages. The highlight of [...]
After the death of Indro Montanelli, the contents of his studies in Milan and Rome were moved to Fucecchio, into Palazzo Montanelli della Volta, the premises of the foundation set up at the journalist [...]
The Palazzo Corsini complex lies in the historic centre of Fucecchio and consists of the park, the farmhouse and the main villa, where you find the museum, divided into three sections: archaeology [...]
In order to preserve the sense of a tradition and of a kind of life that has now disappeared, Faliero Lepri (‘Leprino’) reconstructed, over the course of several decades, a series of environments [...]
The educationally oriented Archaeological Documentation Centre, situated near the Parish Church of Sant’Agata, houses items relating to human presence in the Mugello from the Early Palaeolithic (300 [...]
The Religious Art Collection is in the Oratory of the Compagnia di San Jacopo, which dates to the early 16th century and stands next to the Romanesque Parish Church of Sant’Agata, the most important [...]
