Points of interest

The Benozzo Gozzoli Museum is located in the lower historic center of Castelfiorentino in via Testaferrata, in the heart of the commercial area and a few steps from the railway station. It houses some...

Giorgio Vasari, who was born in Arezzo, spent the last years of his life in Florence in a house near the church of Santa Croce. Of his former home still remains the big hall called Sala Grande, fully...

The new Opera House of Florence is an avant-garde music center for all of Europe. The “Park of Music and Culture”, which comprises the theatre, the auditorium and an open air amphitheatre, was planned...

The protected area Stagni di Focognano is a complex of five lake basins. It is located in the municipality of Campi Bisenzio and is an Oasis of the WWF Italy National System. The Oasis is not only a...

At the beginning of the 18th century, Domenico Michelacci started straw production on an industrial scale and until the 1950s Signa became the centre of the manufacture of hats made of this material...

The museum is housed in premises next to the Parish Church of San Pietro a Cascia, one of the masterpieces of Tuscan Romanesque architecture. The basilica, dating to the 11th century, has a nave and...

The Museo Pietro Annigoni inside Villa Bardini is devoted to the eclectic artist who, in Florence in the creatively thriving period between the two world wars, experimented and expressed his...

In Leonardo’s birthplace in Anchiano, a cluster of houses about two kilometres from Vinci, there is a permanent exhibition. In the home, the audio-video narration Leonardo in Vinci: A Genius Tells His...

Manifattura Tabacchi is an ex-industrial area of 100,000 square metres which is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic centre of Florence: the complex houses 16 buildings, elegantly...

Originally called Villa San Donato, it was built in the 15th century by the will of Carlo de' Medici, with the aim of hosting the parsons of the nearby church. The later owners, Bombicci-Pontelli...