Villa Bardini, within the magnificent garden overlooking the skyline of Florence, was built in 1641 by Gherardo Silvani for Francesco Manadori, it recalls the Houses of Delight common in Florence at [...]
A new large green space has been created in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, between Giardino I Ponti and the settlement of Sorgane. This is the Sorgane Urban Park, which was opened on 21 March [...]
The parish church of Saints Peter and Paul is a building of Romanesque origin located along the Via Francigena between the towns of San Miniato and San Gimignano, the first documents of this church [...]
The Spadolini Nuova Antologia Foundation, established by Giovanni Spadolini in 1980 by decree of the President of the Republic, Sandro Pertini, is based in Florence, on the hill of Pian dei Giullari [...]
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 [...]
