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 [...]
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 [...]
On June 23, 1288 Folco Portinari, the father of Beatrice, the woman who inspired the poetry of Dante, donated the land in Florence upon which the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital was to be built. It is an [...]
On the banks of the Arno River, at Il Girone, lies this war cemetery. It was July 1943 when allied troops from America and Commonwealth landed in Sicily. These armies reached the peninsula only on [...]
The Botany Section has the most important herbarium in Italy, with about four million specimens. It contains historic collections of dried plants, including one of the oldest (1563) still existing [...]
The square is dominated by the elegant mass of the San Lorenzo agri-food market, also known as the Central Market, one of the main markets in Florence. Its construction was deliberate, together with [...]
This relatively small square, dominated by the Church of Santa Trinita preserves the irregular layout of the Medieval urban areas. Its development is closely connected with the Vallombrosan religious [...]
Villa Medici in Fiesole, dates back to the period between 1451 and 1457, built for Giovanni, son of Cosimo Il Vecchio. The project was formerly attributed to Leon Battista Alberti, flanked by Bernardo [...]
It Is the second biggest garden (after Boboli Gardens) inside the city walls and it is a perfect sample of an English-style garden from an aesthetic and philosophical point of view. In 1813 Pietro [...]
