Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza Santa Croce, Piazza di Santa Croce 16, 50122, Florence Italy
Piazza and Basilica of Santa Croce: Piazza Santa Croce is undoubtedly one of the most evocative places in Florence. Located in the eastern sector of the city, formerly a marshy and unhealthy area, the square and the surrounding neighborhood take their name from the imposing Basilica managed by the Franciscan order, who settled here since 1226.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Piazza Dei Cavalleggeri 1, 50122, Florence Italy
National Library: Built in the 1930s in Pietraforte, the Library boasts an eclectic style that evokes medieval and Renaissance architectural elements at the same time.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Basilica San Miniato al Monte, Via delle Porte Sante 34, 50125, Florence Italy
Basilica San Miniato al Monte, panoramic point.
The Basilica of San Miniato is one of the favorite churches of the Florentines, perhaps also because of the beautiful view that can be enjoyed over the whole city.
The church represents, together with the Baptistery of San Giovanni, a splendid example of Florentine Romanesque and is located on top of the so-called "Mons Florentinus" where the first communities
Christians dug their catacombs.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Piazzale Michelangelo, Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, Tuscany
Piazzale Michelangelo
The large square, a real balcony over the city, was built between 1865 and 1875 and introduced the tourist concept of panorama for the first time in Florence. It is the work of Joseph
Poggi and was built at the time of Florence, the capital of the new kingdom of Italy, a title that it inherited from Turin in 1865 before selling it to Rome in 1871.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Oltrarno, Florence Italy
Oltrarno district and Basilica of Santo Spirito
The Oltrarno district, literally "beyond the Arno", developed since 1200 with the growing arrival of population from the countryside. At first the tower houses were built near the river, then the area experienced a significant expansion in the sixteenth century with the arrival of the Medici court in Palazzo Pitti.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Ponte alla Carraia, Florence Italy
Ponte alla Carraia:
Built in 1218, it was called alla Carraia in that
it was used to transport goods on "wagons".
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Basilica of Santa Croce, Piazza Santa Croce 16, 50122, Florence Italy
Basilica of Santa Croce
its construction began in 1294 on a design by Arnolfo di Cambio and was completed in 1444. Thanks to the funding of the important families of the district, Santa Croce became one of the largest and most beautiful churches in the city. Its large size also reflects the vastness of the population of the district, with which the Franciscans had immediately established a close and fruitful relationship.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Via Camillo Cavour 1-3, 50129, Florence Italy
Medici Riccardi Palace
The powerful Medici dynasty has its origins in Mugello, a hilly region north of Florence.
Urbanized during the 1200s, the Medici soon became one of the richest and most influential families in the city; the building here in front of us is proof of this: Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
The palace is a project by Michelozzo, commissioned around 1445 by Cosimo the Elder, patriarch of the Medici family.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di San Lorenzo, Piazza di San Lorenzo 9, 50123, Florence Italy
Basilica of San Lorenzo
The Basilica of San Lorenzo stands on the ruins of the previous paleochristian place of worship
bore the name and that it was the Basilica outside the walls of Roman Florentia before the construction of
Santa Reparata, the city's first cathedral. By the will of Giovanni di Bicci, father of Cosimo il
Old de 'Medici, it was completely rebuilt by the young architect Filippo
Brunelleschi starting from 1419.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Cappelle Medicee, Piazza di Madonna Degli Aldobrandini 6, 50123, Florence Italy
Medici Chapels
The New Sacristy, in the left transept of the church, and the so-called Chapel of the Princes behind it, form the Medici Chapels, a real mausoleum of the ruling family.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Santa Maria Novella, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Tuscany
Basilica and Piazza Santa Maria Novella
it is one of the first great basilicas
Florentine and mother church of the powerful Dominican order established in this place as early as
two hundred with a large convent. The square in front welcomed the numerous faithful recalled by the
sermons by the friars and was enlarged several times to become one of the largest squares in the city.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti, Borgo Ognissanti 42, 50123, Florence Italy
Neighborhood and Church of Ognissanti
In the western part of the historic center opens the area of Borgognissanti, an area that in medieval Florence housed the Umiliati friars, one of the most industrious mendicant orders in the city, famous above all for the processing of wool, an activity favored by the proximity of the river.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence Italy
Santa Trinita bridge
the most beautiful and one of the most loved by Florentines. Erected in 1252, it was
destroyed by a flood of the Arno in 1557 and rebuilt on a project by Bartolomeo Ammannati, a pupil of Michelangelo.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Ponte Vecchio, 50125, Florence Italy
Ponte Vecchio and Vasari Corridor
Dating back to Roman times, built at the narrowest point of the river with stone pillars and floor
of decking in wooden planks, the bridge was destroyed by a flood of the river in 1333 and rebuilt in
1345 so solidly that it has reached the present day, resisting all the numerous
floods of the Arno over the centuries, including that of 1966, the most devastating
absolutely.
and Vasari Corridor, so called from the name of his
builder, Giorgio Vasari. Built in 1565 in just five months, this one-mile long airway
kilometer, it served as a private passage between the government buildings in Palazzo Vecchio and the Court
Medici in Palazzo Pitti.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Palazzo Pitti, Piazza Dei Pitti 1, 50125, Florence Italy
Palazzo Pitti and Piazza Pitti in Piazza Pitti, dominated on its top by the grandiose.
Palazzo Pitti, built in 1440 by Luca Pitti on a project by Filippo Brunelleschi. Such was the ambition of the enterprising and wealthy merchant to overcome the pomp of the Medici and the Strozzi,
another very rich Florentine family, that Luca Pitti wanted its construction of such a size as not to find equal in the whole city.
Duration: 10 minutes