Points of interest

The Foundation has two main groups of items originating from the 19th-century collections of the Cabinet of Physics and the Cabinet of Natural History, together with the Technology Museum of the [...]

The Santa Maria Novella Complex includes a series of striking rooms, adjacent to the Basilica, decorated from the 14th century onwards. Of great impact is the Green Cloister, entirely frescoed by [...]

The convent was built between 1406 and 1435 and here studied two important Dominican monks such as Antonino Pierozzi and Giovanni da Fiesole, also called Beato Angelico, the famous Renaissance friar [...]

The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana originates from the collection of Cosimo the Elder de' Medici (1389-1464), considerably enriched by Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) and “his” circle of humanists [...]

The Church of Santa Maria Novella was the first of the great Florentine basilicas and the first large-scale Gothic building in the city. Started by the Dominicans soon after 1240; it was finished in [...]

The Refectory of Sant'Apollonia occupies part of the former monastery of the Benedictines of Saint Apollonia; open as a museum, it houses detached frescoes and sinopie by Andrea del Castagno and 15th [...]

The Last Supper and Museum of Andrea del Sarto at San Salvi occupies the 16th-century rooms of the ancient Vallombrosian monastery of San Salvi and is named after the splendid Last Supper frescoed by [...]

Palazzo Strozzi, with its imposing facades clad in pietra forte, is one of the most significant Renaissance palaces in Florence and a privileged venue for important art exhibitions. One of the rooms [...]

The basilica is the main Marian shrine in Florence. It was founded in 1250 by the "Seven Saints" of the order of the Servants of Mary; with its facade, contiguous to the Brunelleschi's facade of the [...]

At the beginning of the 18th century, Domenico Michelacci started straw production on an industrial scale and until the 1950s Signa became the centre of the manufacture of hats made of this material [...]