Historic - monumental building, designed by Aurelio Ghersi, one hectare of tropical garden with 340 rare species, 92 of which are grown outdoors: among them a magnificent specimen of Metasequoia [...]
Property of Bernardo Rucellai, the garden was the seat for the meetings of literary men, humanists, philosophers and historians (like Machiavelli, Buondelmonti, Jacopo da Diacceto and Luigi Alemanni) [...]
Formerly the oratory of Palazzo Vescovile, the chapel dates to the first half of the 11th century and is decorated with a large fresco by Bicci di Lorenzo of the Coronation of the Virgin with Angels [...]
Romanesque church. It contains a marbel pulpit of the XII century, decorated with black and white marble. The legend says that Dante and Boccaccio spoke from this pulpit.
The church of Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the oldest in the city and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It has a rough exterior in pietra forte; the first building was in Romanesque style while its [...]
On the slopes of Monte Giovi, a few kilometers from Vicchio, there is Barbiana, a small village including: the church of Sant’ Andrea, the small cemetery, a few nearby houses, others scattered in the [...]
The construction of the church of Santa Maria al Prato, commissioned by the Dominican Fathers of Santa Maria Novella, dates back to 1304. In the 16th century it was deeply modified and in 1631 it [...]
The Oratory of Vannella is located in Settignano, hilly hamlet of Florence. It was built and frescoed between 1719 and 1721 in memory of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a young girl named Vanna [...]
The parish church is a 10th century structure which was reconstructed between 1520 and 1530, and later modified in the 19th century. Interesting and unusual is the 11th century bell tower with an [...]
The Antiquarium adjoins the Parish Church of Sant’Appiano, rebuilt in the Romanesque age over an earlier building and housing a series of Florentine School frescoes from the end of the 15th century [...]
