Points of interest

The first mention of the church is found in an edict by Pope Adrian IV of November 29 1156 when it was confirmed to the parish priest of Santa Maria in Pineta, then an "ecclesia de S. Irsoleo" is [...]

Porta Aretina (also known as the Clock Tower) is the only one of the three gates of the historical center that has maintained much of the original structure of the 13th-century fortification. It [...]

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 [...]

It was in 1516, during Pope Leone X's stop in Incisa, that the Franciscans obtained from him the permission to build a new convent and a church where they already ran a hospice, provided that it was [...]

The Antica Spezieria is nowadays located inside the Villa di San Cerbone, the building where Umberto Serristori, in the early 20th century, decided to move the whole Spedale that was previously to be [...]

This church, seat of the local Misericordia confraternity, is located in the old town of Lastra a Signa. The original church was built at the end of the 14th century in the place where now stands the [...]

The Galileo Factory museum, established in 2006, is located at the Leonardo SpA (formerly Officine Galileo) Electronics Division plant in Campi Bisenzio. Officine Galileo was an important part of [...]