The covered market of Sant'Ambrogio hosts food shops and like the San Lorenzo market dates back to the end of 19th century when a complete new design of the historic centre has been put on. In 1860...
Palazzo Strozzi, with its imposing facades clad in pietra forte, is one of the most significant Renaissance palaces in Florence and a privileged venue for important art exhibitions. One of the rooms...
The Gipsoteca of the Istituto statale d’arte of Florence, now the Liceo Artistico of Porta Romana, is the most interesting collection of plaster cast models in Italy, from fourteenth to the twentieth...
In the former Florentine prison of the Murate, in the area between Santa Croce and the viali di circonvallazione (ring roads), an urban upgrading plan has been implemented on the basis of a project by...
Founded in 1288, the secular charitable order of the Oblates was committed to assisting the ill and infirm. The vast religious and hospital complex, which has simple 15th-century architecture and has...
The foundation stone of the Forte di San Giorgio, better known as Forte di Belvedere, was laid in 1590 , when Ferdinand I was Grand Duke, and it was built to a design by Bernardo Buontalenti. Besides...
Designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1533-35), the Fortezza has been completely remodeled and is now an exhibition and conference center. This complex and prestigious environment combines...
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 first season of the “Teatro Tenda” is dated 1978 and took place in the historical venue where the now called Tuscany Hall is situated today. In 2002 the tensile structure was transformed into a...
This theatre was commissioned by Girolamo Pagliano, a former baritone and lucky pharmacist, as well as inventor o fan elixir of long life. It was built where once stood the Stinche prison in Florence...
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...
The Teatro Niccolini, the oldest theatre in Florence, was inaugurated in 1658 as the venue for the theatre company ‘Accademia degli Infuocati’. Originally, the name was ‘Teatro del Cocomero’ because...
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 theatre was built in 1913 by the members of the centennial Mutual Benefit Society of Rifredi who are still the owners. During the mid-20s it was burned by the fascist brigades and later...
Parish hall. The theatre shows recent, avant-garde and children’s films weekly, from Friday to Sunday. Periodically, it also hosts theatre shows. In the same building a bar and a multi-purpose area...
The Goldoni Theatre dates back to the early Nineteenth Century, thanks to the initiative of a private individual called Luigi Gargani, who entrusted the project of this theatre to Giuseppe del Rosso...
The Pergola Theatre in Florence was inaugurated 350 years ago to meet the needs of the growing local theatre community. Ferdinando Tacca was commissioned to design the new theatre, clearly inspired by...
