Points of interest

Derived from an originary project (80s of the twentieth century) of the architect Leonardo Ricci, a pupil of Giovanni Michelucci, the new courthouse was born with the aim of centralizing all the [...]

Villa Rusciano Park is located on a hill, known as Poggio di Rusciano, and covers a huge green area of more than 50.000 square meters, surrounding the homonymous villa. It is a privileged place to [...]

The Zecca Vecchia Tower is part of the last city walls of Florence, built in the thirteenth century at the behest of the Florentine Government (Signoria), on a design by Arnolfo di Cambio. The name [...]

Parco degli animali is a modern structure of about 2,5 hectars hosting stray dogs coming from Firenze and the surrounding municipalities. The park is managed by municipal employees and a health [...]

Known as Villa di Bellosguardo since the late fourteenth century, the villa of the Segni family changed ownership in the nineteenth century. The romantic park was created in that period, while the [...]

The Villa del Trebbio was acquired in the 14th century in the early days of the rise in the Medici's fortunes. It was built on the ruins of a Lombard tower. Restored by Michelozzo, its architecture [...]

The Villa di Cafaggiolo is an ancient Medici family property acquired in the 14th century. It is located in the Mugello area, on the road to Bologna. It was originally a medieval farm. In 1451 Cosimo [...]

Having bought the villa in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, Baroness Favard commissioned Giuseppe Poggi to carry out the works for the modernization and embellishment of the building and the [...]

The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa [...]

The superb residence, one of the symbols of the Renaissance culture, has reached us through many events and today it presents the stratifications, the signs and the memories of its transformations [...]