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Piazza Ognissanti
Points of interest
Piazza Ognissanti, 50123 Firenze FI, Italia

Piazza Ognissanti

Piazza Ognissanti rises along the right bank of the Arno and is located in the western part of the center of Florence. It is overlooked by important historic buildings and the church of San Salvatore [...]
David del piazzale Michelangelo
Walking route
Firenze

The David

Michelangelo's David, the best known and most admired man in Florence The colossal statue, sculpted by a young Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1504, depicts David preparing to strike Goliath with a [...]
Palazzo Borghese
Architectures and monuments

Palazzo Borghese

One of the most important neoclassical buildings in Florence, it overlooks Via Ghibellina, a stone's throw from the Bargello Museum. Originally from the Salviati family, its original nucleus is due to [...]
orto
Churches and places of worship
via san Giuseppe 5R

The Garden of St Francis

In the rear spaces of the great Basilica of Santa Croce, discover the Garden of Francis: a true ode to creation and the beauty of nature. In every Franciscan convent and church, there has always been [...]
piazza dei Ciompi
Points of interest
Architectures and monuments
Piazza dei Ciompi

Loggia del pesce & Piazza de' Ciompi

The Loggia del Pesce (fish loggia) which is located today in Piazza dei Ciompi, is a project by Giorgio Vasari commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1567. The loggia was intended to house [...]
Torre di san Niccolò, Piazza Poggi
Walking route
Firenze

San Niccolò ditrict

Within the large Oltrarno area - approximately in the zone between Ponte Vecchio, the Lungarni up to Piazza Ferrucci, the slopes of Piazzale Michelangelo and Forte Belvedere – you can discover one of [...]
Fontana delle Boccacce nel Quercione
Architectures and monuments
Parks and gardens
50144 Firenze FI

Fountain of “Boccacce”

Not many among the Florentines know about Quercione trough, called Fountain of Boccacce, situated in the middle of one of the vast lawns of Cascine Park, The structure standing in the middle of the [...]
Tempietto a memoria del giovane principe indiano Rajaram Chuttraputti di Kolhapur
Architectures and monuments
Parks and gardens
Piazzale delle Cascine, 50144 Firenze FI

The Indian

At the far end of Cascine Park, stands an oriental-style and eccentric-looking funerary monument, in memory of the sad and short story of a traveler coming from remote India. In 1870, young Indian [...]
Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali dell'Università di Firenze al Piazzale delle Cascine
Architectures and monuments
Parks and gardens
piazzale delle Cascine

Palazzina Agraria

The Palazzina Reale, or the Grand Ducal Villa is located in the exact center of Cascine Park, on a large square guarded by four lionesses-sphinxes, neo-egyptian decorations added at the end of the [...]
La ghiacciaia piramidale
Architectures and monuments
Parks and gardens
viale degli Olmi, Firenze

The pyramid-shaped ice house

The pyramid-shaped ice house, built to keep the cold inside even in the warmest seasons and which nothing has to do with Egypt, is located near Pavoniere, in viale degli Olmi. It’s a ten-meters high [...]