Points of interest

The “Teatro Puccini” was newly opened in 1940 as a theatre for the Recreation Workers’ Circle. After the war, it was used as a dance hall and for boxing matches; then, between 1964 and 1972, business [...]

The “Teatro le Laudi” was born in Florence in the early ‘80s as the most important part of a complex of structures created with the contribution of many people, in order to build a community house, a [...]

Born at the beginning of the past century as a small parish hall and closed during the II World War, the theatre re-opened at the end of the ‘50s with a bigger auditorium, provided with comfortable [...]

The Church of San Martino a Gangalandi is of Romanesque origin, though the current building reflects the 15th-century remodelling carried out by Leon Battista Alberti, who designed the apse. The [...]

The garden is divided in geometrical box flowerbeds and has a camellias little woods on the east side. At the end of the garden there is a walled-fountain of the 18th century.

Housed in a renovated farm building, the collection – named after Professor Bruno Carmagnini, the man responsible for setting it up – consists of items relating to rural life and collected in the [...]

Lituana Di Sabatino is a skilled artisan specialising in Commesso Fiorentino, an ancient and refined technique that requires both skill and creativity. Lituana has been expressing this art in her work [...]

The Train Museum is the latest addition to the Florentine museums and is dedicated to the world of miniature trains and modelling, just a stone's throw from the central Santa Maria Novella railway [...]

It is a public space for events created in the premises of a former convent first of the Camaldolese order, then of the Knights Hierosolimitan nuns of San Giovanni in Fieri. The vicissitudes of the [...]

Among the main centres for leonardian studies in Italy, the Leonardian Library gathers to date over 16.500 works by and about Leonardo da Vinci, among which the duplicates of all his manuscripts and [...]