The French Institute of Florence not only hosts the most important library and multimedia library in Italy, but also a theatre hall where cinema festivals, such as France Odeon and Cannes a Firenze...
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...
For years it was the most beautiful cinema in Florence, the Odeon Cinema, built inside the Palazzo dello Strozzino, one of the most important in the city. Built around 1457 according to Palla Strozzi...
Chille de la balanza is a historical theatre company born in Naples in 1973. Since 1998 the company was established in San Salvi, ex Asylum of Florence: this is what the last director decided, as he...
The Teatro Cantiere Florida was re-opened in 2002 after a skilful restoration. Currently, this is the only multi-disciplinary artist in-residence experience in Florence and it is supported by Regione...
The Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana originates from the collection of Cosimo the Elder de' Medici (1389-1464), considerably enriched by Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) and “his” circle of humanists...
The Observatory was entrusted in 1773 to the Padri Scolopi and deals with astronomical studies. Today it is managed by a foundation and is composed of exhibition rooms with important scientific...
The deconsecrated Church of Santo Stefano at Ponte Vecchio is partly a museum and has a magnificent Auditorium, where the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque styles can be found. Its interior preserves...
Inside the complex of S. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, founded in 1256 and renovated in Renaissance forms at the end of the fifteenth century, there is the Chapter House decorated, around 1495, with a...
Frescoed with the Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1488, the refectory in the convent of Ognissanti still has the original lavabos and portal, and an early 15th-century Annunciation. The...
The Refectory of Sant'Apollonia occupies part of the former monastery of the Benedictines of Saint Apollonia; open as a museum, it houses detached frescoes and sinopie by Andrea del Castagno and 15th...
The Last Supper and Museum of Andrea del Sarto at San Salvi occupies the 16th-century rooms of the ancient Vallombrosian monastery of San Salvi and is named after the splendid Last Supper frescoed by...
The refectory of the former convent of the Tertiary Franciscans of Foligno is decorated with a 15th-century fresco of the Last Supper with the Agony in the Garden in the background; rediscovered in...
The convent, where Franciabigio frescoed the entire end wall with the Last Supper in 1514, was known as S. Giovanni alla Porta di San Pier Gattolino. Its current name derives from the hood of the...
The tiny Church of San Martino al Vescovo, founded in the 10th century and thought to be where Dante Alighieri married, was rebuilt in 1479 by the Compagnia dei Buonomini di San Martino. The...
The Oratory of Vannella is located in Settignano, hilly hamlet of Florence. It was built and frescoed between 1719 and 1721 in memory of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a young girl named Vanna...
Inside the Cathedral steps lead down to the excavations that uncovered the ancient cathedral of Santa Reparata,evidence of the earliest Christianity in Florence, demolished after the new cathedral had...
The dome in Florence Cathedral was begun in 1420 by Filippo Brunelleschi, who conceived an innovative, self-supporting double shell that did away with the need for traditional centring during...
Santa Felicita is an important church in Florence located in the Oltrarno district a few steps after Ponte Vecchio. As soon as you enter, on the right (in the Brunelleschi Cappella Capponi), you can...
The imposing building, with an unusual shape, along via Calzaioli, was built in 1337 originally as a municipal granary, near a vegetable garden named after San Michele Arcangelo; the loggia on the...
