Firenze

Villa della Petraia is situated a few kilometres from the city centre; the ancient fortified building, of which the large tower still remains today, was enlarged towards the end of the 16th century...

The Medici Villa of Castello, one of the oldest Medici residencies, was one of the favourite villas of Cosimo I especially for its garden, designed in 1538 by Niccolò Tribolo. Thanks to the plenty of...

Having bought the villa in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, Baroness Favard commissioned Giuseppe Poggi to carry out the works for the modernization and embellishment of the building and the...

The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa...

La Quiete villa (the Quietness) named after the fresco called “La Quiete che domina i venti” painted by Giovanni from San Giovanni in 1632. Former owners were the Orlandini family, then Villa La...

This is one of the first residences of the Medici family. The villa was bought by the father of Cosimo the Elder who had it enlarged by Michelozzo in 1454. It was the seat of the Platonic Academy, and...

The Villa Corsini in Castello, close to the famous Medici Villa La Petraia, was purchased in 1697 by the Counsellor to the Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici, Filippo Corsini. Corsini then entrusted the...

Known as Villa di Bellosguardo since the late fourteenth century, the villa of the Segni family changed ownership in the nineteenth century. The romantic park was created in that period, while the...

This villa was bought by the Medici family in the XVI Century and was later transformed during the Baroque period. It became residence of the grand dukes after the Pitti Palace.

Villa Bardini, within the magnificent garden overlooking the skyline of Florence, was built in 1641 by Gherardo Silvani for Francesco Manadori, it recalls the Houses of Delight common in Florence at...

Public toilet - Piazza Santo Spirito - Closed for renovation work

Public Toilet- Piazza Santa Maria Novella by Fratellanza Militare

Palazzo Vecchio is the city's symbolic monument and, for over seven centuries, the seat of its government; it bears extraordinary testimony to all the salient phases of Florence's history and art. It...

The imposing Palazzo Vecchio was born on the ruins of the Roman Theatre of Florentia. Just a few steps downstairs and you find yourself back in ancient Rome! The theatre could host 10 thousand people...