Points of interest

The Bargello National Museum is a place of extraordinary interest. The evocative medieval building houses a unique collection of Italian sculpture, mainly from the Renaissance period (masterpieces by...

The Vasari Corridor ("Corridoio vasariano") was built by the celebrated architect Giorgio Vasari in just five months during 1565 to enable the Grand Dukes to move freely – and safely – from the seat...

The St. Mark's Museum, commonly known as the ‘Beato Angelico's museum’, occupies the spaces of the former Dominican convent that Michelozzo rebuilt in Renaissanche style on the commission of Cosimo il...

This museum collects the historical and artistic heritage of the ancient Spedale degli Innocenti, a building designed at the beginning of the 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi, in order to welcome...

The Museo Novecento, on piazza Santa Maria Novella in the premises of the former Leopoldine schools, is dedicated to 20th-century Italian art, presenting a selection of works from the civic...

The Stibbert Museum, conceived by Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906), is a rare example of a 19th-century museum: an extraordinary collection of arms, armour and works of art is displayed in a series of...

The museum exhibits chart the ancient history of Fiesole and the surrounding area: human presence in the zone dates back at least as far as the Bronze Age (around 2000 BC), while the city itself began...

The National Archaeological Museum, one of the most important, of this kind in Italy. houses masterpieces of the Etruscan, Greek-Roman and Egyptian art. It's inside the 17th century Palazzo della...

The museum is named after its creator, the famous antiquarian Stefano Bardini. The old building that houses it, transformed with the neo-romantic taste of the time (around 1880), became the show-room...

Palazzo Medici Riccardi plays a fundamental role in the history of the city of Florence. Commissioned in 1444 by Cosimo il Vecchio, it was the residence of the Medici family on what used to be known...