81 Sights in Florence, Italy (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Florence, Italy! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Florence. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

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1. Santa Maria del Fiore

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Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

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2. Loggia dei Lanzi

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The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines that Michelangelo proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria.

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3. Anfiteatro

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Anfiteatro Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys) / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Boboli Amphitheatre is one of the main architectures of the Florentine Boboli Gardens at Palazzo Pitti, which embellishes the main axis, centered on the rear façade of the palace. Used as a place for summer performances, it is the oldest court theatre in Florence that has come down to us, after the loss of the Teatrino della Dogana and the Teatro Mediceo.

Wikipedia: Anfiteatro di Boboli (IT)

4. Boboli Gardens

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The Boboli Gardens is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which later served as inspiration for many European courts. The large green area is a real open-air museum with statues of various styles and periods, ancient and Renaissance that are distributed throughout the garden. It also has large fountains and caves, among them the splendid Buontalenti grotto built by the artist, architect, and sculptor Bernardo Buontalenti between 1536 and 1608.

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5. Fontana del Porcellino

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Il Porcellino is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and removed to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of its rediscovery with the Calydonian Boar of Greek myth.

Wikipedia: Porcellino (EN)

6. Basilica di Santa Maria del Santo Spirito

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The Basilica di Santo Spirito is a church in Florence, Italy. Usually referred to simply as Santo Spirito, it is located in the Oltrarno quarter, facing the square with the same name. The interior of the building – internal length 97 m (318 ft) – is one of the preeminent examples of Renaissance architecture.

Wikipedia: Santo Spirito, Florence (EN)

7. Colonna di San Felice

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In Florence there are some columns erected over the centuries as urban decoration and testimony of various vicissitudes. There are not as many as in Rome, for example, but each one is linked to a particular event, real or legendary, in the city's history.

Wikipedia: Colonne di Firenze (IT)

8. Basilica di San Miniato al Monte

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Basilica di San Miniato al Monte Benjamín Núñez González / CC BY-SA 4.0

San Miniato al Monte is a basilica in Florence, central Italy, standing atop one of the highest points in the city. It has been described as one of the finest Romanesque structures in Tuscany and one of the most scenic churches in Italy. There is an adjoining Olivetan monastery, seen to the right of the basilica when ascending the stairs.

Wikipedia: San Miniato al Monte (EN)

9. Cappella de' Pazzi

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The Pazzi Chapel is a chapel located in the "first cloister" on the southern flank of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Commonly credited to Filippo Brunelleschi, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture.

Wikipedia: Pazzi Chapel (EN)

10. Basilica di San Marco

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St. Mark's Basilica in Florence is one of the churches in the historic city center, overlooking a crowded square and serving as a reference point for the surrounding urban area. The church was originally part of the large complex of the convent of San Marco, where many of the most important representatives of fifteenth-century spirituality and culture lived and worked: Cosimo the Elder, St. Antonino, Fra Angelico, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Fra Bartolomeo, Tommaso Caccini and, above all, Fra' Girolamo Savonarola, who preached against the decadence of morals, He was hanged and burned in Piazza della Signoria in 1498. From 1934 the mayor of Florence, Giorgio La Pira, also lived there, and was later buried in the Basilica.

Wikipedia: Basilica di San Marco (Firenze) (IT)

11. Basilica della Santissima Annunziata

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The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata is a Renaissance-style, Catholic minor basilica in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. This is considered the mother church of the Servite Order. It is located at the northeastern side of the Piazza Santissima Annunziata near the city center.

Wikipedia: Santissima Annunziata, Florence (EN)

12. Chiesa di Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore

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The church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, born with the title of Santa Maria della Concezione, is a Catholic place of worship in Florence, located in Piazza Santa Caterina d'Alessandria and on the corner with Via Enrico Poggi, in the historic center of the Tuscan capital.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore (Firenze) (IT)

13. Sinagoga di Firenze

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The Great Synagogue of Florence is one of the largest synagogues in South-central Europe, situated in Florence, in Italy. The synagogue of Florence was one of the most important synagogues built in Europe in the age of the Jewish emancipation, reached by the Jewish communities living in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1848.

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14. Badia Fiorentina

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The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante. He would have heard the monks singing the Mass and the Offices here in Latin Gregorian chant, as he famously recounts in his Commedia: "Florence, within her ancient walls embraced, Whence nones and terce still ring to all the town, Abode aforetime, peaceful, temperate, chaste." In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.

Wikipedia: Badia Fiorentina (EN)

15. Teatro di Cestello

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The Teatro di Cestello is located in the square of the same name in Cestello, from which it takes its name, in the district of San Frediano, in the Oltrarno area, the historic center, in Florence. It is the only hall in the neighborhood with regular programming, as well as being a training center. It is considered one of the main Florentine theatres in operation.

Wikipedia: Teatro di Cestello (IT)

16. Orti Oricellari

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The Orti Oricellari is a monumental garden in the street of the same name near Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. It was the garden of what is now called Palazzo Venturi Ginori, and belonged to the Rucellai family, of which "Oricellari" is a variant of the family name.

Wikipedia: Orti Oricellari (IT)

17. Chiesa di San Salvatore a Monte

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The church of San Salvatore al Monte is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, Italy, located on the hill behind Piazzale Michelangelo, known as Monte delle Croci, just below the basilica of San Miniato.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Salvatore al Monte (IT)

18. Villa La Quiete

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Villa La Quiete is located on the hill of Castello in Florence, at the foot of Monte Morello. Considered one of the most significant buildings in the surroundings of Florence, it owes its name to a fresco by Giovanni da San Giovanni entitled The Quiet Overlooking the Winds (1632).

Wikipedia: Villa La Quiete (IT)

19. Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista della Calza

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The church of San Giovanni Battista della Calza is a Catholic place of worship that is part of the Calza complex, founded in 1362 as the hospital of San Giovanni Battista, and is located in Piazza della Calza 6, opposite Porta Romana, in the Oltrarno district in the historic center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista della Calza (IT)

20. Firenze Porta al Prato

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Firenze Porta al Prato railway station was a railway station at the head of Florence, with a central metropolitan platform. Without rail traffic since September 2022 and suppressed in February 2024, the management of circulation fell within the scope of the Firenze Cascine Movement Post of the Leopolda railway from which the connecting branch was born.

Wikipedia: Stazione di Firenze Porta al Prato (IT)

21. Giardino Torrigiani

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The Torrigiani Garden is located in Florence between Via de' Serragli, Via del Campuccio and the stretch of walls that runs along Viale Francesco Petrarca. It is a large park with a palace called Casino Torrigiani al Campuccio.

Wikipedia: Giardino Torrigiani (IT), Website

22. Porta al Prato

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Porta al Prato is one of the ancient city gates of the Walls of Florence. It is now located in the center of the square of the same name in Porta al Prato, along the busy route of the Circonvallazione avenues, at the convergence of Viale Fratelli Rosselli, Via del Ponte alle Mosse, Viale Belfiore and Prato di Ognissanti.

Wikipedia: Porta al Prato (IT)

23. Chiesa di Santa Felicita

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Santa Felicita is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are thought to have brought Christianity to the region. The first church on the site was probably built in the late 4th century or early 5th century and was dedicated to Saint Felicity of Rome. A new church was built in the 11th century and the current church largely dates from 1736–1739, under design by Ferdinando Ruggieri, who turned it into a one nave edifice. The monastery was suppressed under the Napoleonic occupation of 1808–1810.

Wikipedia: Santa Felicita, Florence (EN)

24. Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni

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The former Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is a religious building in Florence, Italy, located on the corner of Via San Gallo and Via Guelfa. It was originally called the church of San Basilio, also known as the Church of the Armenians.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni (IT)

25. Galleria dell'Accademia

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The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, or "Gallery of the Academy of Florence", is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture David. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a large collection of paintings by Florentine artists, mostly from the period 1300–1600. It is smaller and more specialized than the Uffizi, the main art museum in Florence. It adjoins the Accademia di Belle Arti or academy of fine arts of Florence, but despite the name has no other connection with it.

Wikipedia: Galleria dell'Accademia (EN)

26. Giardino Corsini

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The Corsini al Prato garden is part of the complex of Palazzo Corsini al Prato, to be distinguished from Palazzo Corsini sul Lungarno, which belonged to the wealthy Corsini family in Florence. Numerous and illustrious guests have been at the palace, from Frederick IV of Denmark to the Prince of Wales, Charles Edward Stuart, to Queens Victoria of England and Margaret of Savoy.

Wikipedia: Giardino Corsini (IT)

27. Pegaso

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The flag of Tuscany is the official flag of the region of Tuscany, Italy. The flag depicts a silver Pegasus rampant on a white field between two horizontal red bands. The flag first appeared as a gonfalon on 20 May 1975 along with accompanying text Regione Toscana above the Pegasus. It was officially adopted as the flag of Tuscany on 3 February 1995.

Wikipedia: Flag of Tuscany (EN)

28. Piazza della Vittoria

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Piazza della Vittoria is located in Florence and is the confluence of Via Fratelli Ruffini, Via Francesco Puccinotti, Via della Cernaia and Via Giuseppe Cesare Abba. In recent times, the square has been a meeting point for young people and children from the neighborhood, as well as students from the area. Piazza della Vittoria is adorned with forty-five pine trees that give it the appearance of a garden. In this square, there is the building of the Liceo Ginnasio Dante, a work in the Coppedè style and, in Via della Cernaia, the Maria Teresa nursing home that overlooks the square.

Wikipedia: Piazza della Vittoria (Firenze) (IT)

29. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Campo

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Chiesa di Santa Maria in Campo

The church of Santa Maria in Campo, "speciosa in campis" as we read on the architrave, is a place of Catholic worship that stands on a side square of Via del Proconsolo that opens shortly after the beginning of the street a few steps from Piazza del Duomo in Florence. But although it is in a very central position, it does not belong to the Florentine diocese, but to that of Fiesole.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Campo (IT)

30. Casa Buonarroti

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Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence, Italy that is situated on property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo that he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The complex of buildings was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Its collections include two of Michelangelo's earliest marble sculptures, the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. A ten-thousand book library includes the family archive and some of Michelangelo's letters and drawings. The Galleria is decorated with paintings commissioned by Buonarroti the Younger and was created by Artemisia Gentileschi and other early seventeenth-century Italian artists.

Wikipedia: Casa Buonarroti (EN)

31. Chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio

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The church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio is a Catholic place of worship located in the area north of the center of Florence, in the square of the same name transformed into a public garden in the early 1990s.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio (Firenze) (IT)

32. Chiesa Immacolata Concezione

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The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic place of worship in Florence, Italy, with its main entrance in Via Paoletti and another entrance in Via Fabroni. it is joined by the church of San Martino a Montughi, located in Via Stibbert, which, before the construction of the Immaculate Conception, was the parish of the area.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Immacolata (Firenze) (IT)

33. Santa Maria a Mantignano

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The church of Santa Maria a Mantignano is a Catholic place of worship located in Via di Mantignano, an area west of the center of Florence, at the confluence of the Greve river and the Arno and on the bank of the Oltrarno.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria a Mantignano (IT)

34. Chiesa dei Santi Girolamo e Francesco alla Costa

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The church of Saints Jerome and Francis at the Costa is a Catholic place of worship located along the steep Costa San Giorgio, a street that climbs to the fort of Belvedere from the Ponte Vecchio, in the center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Girolamo e Francesco alla Costa (IT)

35. Casa Guidi

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Casa Guidi is a writer's house museum in the 15th-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. The piano nobile apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. Their only child, Robert Barrett Browning was born there in 1849.

Wikipedia: Casa Guidi (EN)

36. San Jacopo in Polverosa

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San Jacopo in Polverosa

The church of San Jacopo in Polverosa, popularly known as San Jacopino, is a Catholic place of worship located just outside the center of Florence, in Via Benedetto Marcello at number 24. It gives its name to the Florentine district of San Jacopino.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Jacopino (IT)

37. Stibbert Museum

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The Stibbert Museum is located on via Frederick Stibbert on the hill of Montughi in Florence, Italy. The museum contains over 36,000 artifacts, including a vast collection of armour from Eastern and Western civilizations.

Wikipedia: Stibbert Museum (EN)

38. Parco delle Cascine

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The Parco delle Cascine (Cascine Park) is a monumental and historical park in the city of Florence. The park covers an area of 160 hectares. It has the shape of a long and narrow stripe, on the north bank of the Arno river. It extends from the centre of Florence until the point where the Mugnone flows into the Arno.

Wikipedia: Parco delle Cascine (EN)

39. San Michele a Castello

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The church of San Michele a Castello is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence in the homonymous street of San Michele in the Castello area, a hill north of the city famous for the beautiful villas that were built there by the Medici and other Florentine families.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Michele a Castello (IT)

40. Palazzo Ricci-Altoviti

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Palazzo Ricci-Altoviti is a historic building in the historic center of Florence, located in Via de' Vecchietti 6, at the corner of Via del Campidoglio. It incorporates the ancient tower of the Agli, still visible on the left side.

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41. Chiesa di Maria Mater Misericordiae

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The church of Maria Mater Misericordiae is a Catholic place of worship located on Via Villani in Florence, Italy. The former adjoining convent, now home to artisan workshops, is called the Conventino, with access from Via Giano della Bella. It shares this name with another complex not far away, the former convent of St. Francis de Sales in Piazza Tasso, seat of the Theological Faculty of Central Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Maria Mater Misericordiae (IT)

42. Chiesa Evangelica Valdese di Firenze (Holy Trinity Church)

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The Waldensian Church of Florence is located in Via Pier Antonio Micheli on the corner with Via Alfonso La Marmora. It was an Anglican place of worship with the title of Holy Trinity Church from its construction until 1966.

Wikipedia: Chiesa Valdese (Firenze) (IT), Website

43. Chiesa di Santa Lucia

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The church of Santa Lucia is a place of Christian worship located in Via del Podestà, in the hamlet of Galluzzo in Florence; Founded as a Catholic church and still regularly officiated as such, it has also been the seat of the Romanian Orthodox parish of the same name since November 2015.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Lucia (Firenze) (IT)

44. Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte

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Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte

The diocesan museum of sacred art, housed in the premises of the rectory and the spaces adjacent to the church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, was the diocesan museum of Florence. The collection consisted of works from Florentine churches, removed in the second half of the twentieth century for conservation and safety reasons.

Wikipedia: Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte (IT)

45. Giardino Bardini

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The Giardino Bardini is an Italian Renaissance garden of the Villa Bardini in the hilly part of Oltrarno, offering fine views of Florence, Italy. Opened only recently to the public, it is one of Florence's well kept secrets.

Wikipedia: Bardini Gardens (EN)

46. Chiesa di Santa Maria a Coverciano

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The church of Santa Maria a Coverciano is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence, Italy, in the eastern part of Coverciano. There are two churches dedicated to Santa Maria, the old one, located in a side street of Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the new one in Via Manni, rebuilt as a parish for the growing population of the area in 1931.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria a Coverciano (IT)

47. Teatro di Rifredi

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The Teatro di Rifredi is a theatre in Florence, Italy. It hosts works of prose, research and theatrical experimentation. For some years now, it has been addressing more specific educational support projects to the city's schools.

Wikipedia: Teatro di Rifredi (IT)

48. Villa Agape-Arrighetti

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Villa Agape, previously named Villa Arrighetti, is a villa in Tuscany, Italy, situated in Florence on the hill of Arcetri, close to Piazzale Michelangelo. The original house was built in 1472, but was rebuilt in its present form by Giulio de Filippo Arrighetti in 1602. Arrighetti was friends with the scientist Galileo, who retired to Arcetri, effectively under house arrest after the condemnation of his theories. A plaque on the wall commemorates their friendship.

Wikipedia: Villa Agape (EN)

49. Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento e del Preziosissimo Sangue

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The "Church of the Blessed Sacrament and the Precious Blood" or "Church of the Suffrage" is a place of Catholic worship in Florence, located just beyond the western boundary of the walls, in Via Colletta.

Wikipedia: Chiesino del Suffragio (IT)

50. Villa Il Gioiello

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Villa il Gioiello is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642. It is also known as Villa Galileo.

Wikipedia: Villa Il Gioiello (EN)

51. Chiesa di San Felice in Piazza

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The Chiesa di San Felice is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located on the south bank of the River Arno, just west of the Pitti Palace. It is predominantly Gothic, but has a Renaissance façade by Michelozzo, added in 1457. Over the high altar is a large Crucifix attributed to Giotto or his school.

Wikipedia: San Felice, Florence (EN)

52. Villa Bardini

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Villa Bardini, formerly Villa Manadora, is located on the San Giorgio 2 coast in Florence. Today it is an exhibition center that hosts temporary exhibitions and the Annigoni Museum; until 2017 it also housed the Capucci Museum. The park of the villa is the scenic Bardini Garden, which can now be visited separately with the same ticket as the Boboli Gardens. In addition, the "Bardinicontemporanea" space offers contemporary art exhibitions with free admission.

Wikipedia: Villa Bardini (IT), Website

53. Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù ai Bassi

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The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in the Bassi is a Catholic place of worship located at 99 Via dell'Argingrosso on the southwestern outskirts of Florence. The church stands on the ancient farm of the Bassi, as it was called in a grand-ducal notification dated 21 July 1849.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù ai Bassi (IT)

54. Parco D'Arte Enzo Pazzagli

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The Enzo Pazzagli Art Park is a large garden in Florence decorated with sculptures and installations by the artist Enzo Pazzagli. It is located in Via Sant'Andrea in Rovezzano 5, between the Arno river and the direct railway to Rome.

Wikipedia: Parco d'arte Enzo Pazzagli (IT)

55. Fontana dell'Uomo della pioggia

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The rain man of the rain was installed in Florence, at the center of a roundabout between Lungarno Aldo Moro and Viale Enrico de 'Nicola, near the Varlungo bridge. It was composed of the Pluie ("rain" statue of the Belgian artist Jean Michel Folon and the surrounding structures for the functioning of the fountain and his lighting.

Wikipedia: Fontana dell'Uomo della pioggia (IT)

56. Giardino dell'Ardiglione

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Giardino dell'Ardiglione

The Nidiaci-Ardiglione garden is a garden and space for children in the city of Florence, located in the district of San Frediano, in the Florentine Oltrarno, behind the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine. The historical entrance to the complex was from Via della Chiesa, but the garden is only accessible by a gate in Via d'Ardiglione.

Wikipedia: Giardino Nidiaci (IT)

57. Oratorio della Santissima Annunziata

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The Oratory of the Santissima Annunziata is a Catholic place of worship located in Piazza Garibaldi in Peretola, a suburb of Florence. It was built in 1821 and is a rare example of neoclassical architecture in this area.

Wikipedia: Oratorio della Santissima Annunziata (Peretola) (IT)

58. Chiostro dello Scalzo

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The Chiostro della Scalzo or is a cloister in Florence, Italy that originally led to a chapel once belonging to a religious company known as the Compagnia del diciplinati di San Giovanni Battista or della Passione di Cristo. The term "scalzo" makes reference to the barefoot brother who carried the Cross during its public processions.

Wikipedia: Chiostro dello Scalzo (EN), Website

59. Obelisco

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The Boboli obelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century from Rome to Florence, where it was erected in the Boboli Gardens.

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60. Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte

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Santo Stefano al Ponte is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church, located in the Piazza of the same name, just off the Via Por Santa Maria, near the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is presently used as a concert hall.

Wikipedia: Santo Stefano al Ponte (EN)

61. Oratorio di Gesù Pellegrino

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The Oratory of Gesù Pellegrino, also called the Oratorio dei Pretoni, is a Roman Catholic prayer hall or small church found on the corner of Via San Gallo and via degli Arazzieri in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Oratory of Gesù Pellegrino (EN)

62. Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza di San Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo

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The Little House of Divine Providence in Florence is located in Via dei Cappuccini 6A and is one of the many houses in Italy of the Little House of Divine Providence in Turin run by the Sisters of St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo.

Wikipedia: Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza (Firenze) (IT)

63. Monumento all'Indiano

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The Monumento all'Indiano or Monument to the Indian, more specifically "Monument to the Maratha Maharajah of Kolhapur, Rajaram Chhatrapati" consisting of a chhatri or small raised dome, in Italian terms a baldacchino, over the bust of the Indian prince, at the west end of the Parco delle Cascine in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Monumento all'Indiano, Florence (EN)

64. Chiesa russa ortodossa della Natività

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Church of the Nativity of Christ and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is a Russian Orthodox church in Florence, located on via Leone X, near the Basso Fortress. Its style is a late 19th and early 20th century imitation of the earlier Naryshkin Baroque.

Wikipedia: Church of the Nativity of Christ and St. Nicholas (Florence) (EN)

65. Chiesa di Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite

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Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite is a formerly Roman Catholic church on Via de' Serragli in the Oltrarno neighborhood of Florence region of Tuscany, Italy. Since 2015, the church has functioned as a Georgian Orthodox church. The former adjacent convent has multiple uses, including in 2016 as the Istituti Pio X Artigianelli.

Wikipedia: Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite (EN)

66. Fontana di piazza Santa Croce

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The fountain in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence is located on the opposite side of the Basilica of Santa Croce, along the axis of Via de' Benci and Via Giuseppe Verdi and in front of Palazzo Cocchi Serristori.

Wikipedia: Fontana di piazza Santa Croce (IT)

67. Arco di Trionfo

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The Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine located in Piazza della Libertà in Florence, Italy, is an 18th-century, monumental triumphal arch, bypassed by the viali di Circonvallazione that skirt Florence through the space once girded by its 16th-century walls. The piazza stands at the northernmost end of Via Cavour, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine, Florence (EN)

68. Chiesa di San Giorgio alla Costa

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The church of San Giorgio alla Costa, called in earlier times also dei Santi Giorgio e Massimiliano dello Spirito Santo is a small historical church in the Oltrarno district of the centre of Florence, situated on the steep slope of via Costa San Giorgio which runs uphill from Ponte Vecchio to Forte di Belvedere.

Wikipedia: San Giorgio alla Costa (EN)

69. Villa di Volsanminiato

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Villa di Volsanminiato is located in Florence, in via Pian de' Giullari 18, in front of the villa of the Torre del Gallo. The curious name derives from the crossroads where it is located, which was the "turn" to San Miniato al Monte of the road coming from Impruneta.

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70. Villa San Donato

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The Villa San Donato is a Palladian palace built by Russian industrialist Nikolay Demidov on 42 hectares of marshland to the north of Florence at Polverosa which he had bought from the Catholic church, after he was made Russia's ambassador to the court of Tuscany. The first stone was laid on 27 June 1827 and construction was completed in 1831. It includes an estates with rivers, lakes, churches, a menagerie, a silk factory, a zoo, gardens and a railway. The designs were by Giovan Battista Silvestri, architect to the Uffizi.

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71. Chiesa di Cristo

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The Cappella Demidoff di San Donato, or Demidoff Chapel of San Donato, is occupied at present by the Church of Christ in Florence, and is found on via San Donato. The church was formerly the private chapel of the Villa San Donato, built by the rich Russian noble, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato. It belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church. The chapel recalls both the Pantheon in Rome, with its central oculus, and the Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza by Andrea Palladio. The entrance has a classical portico. The building is in a dilapidated state.

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72. Cappella di San Luca

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The Cappella di San Luca, also called dei Pittori is a chapel found in the cloisters of the convent of Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy. It was built to serve as the burial chapel for members of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, and was donated by the Servites to the Academy in a document from 1565. It contains a collection of terracota statues from a number of prominent Florentine Mannerist sculptors.

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73. Giardino di Archimede - Un Museo per la Matematica

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The Garden of Archimedes is a museum for mathematics in Florence, Italy, founded in 2004. It has been compared to the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City, the only museum in North America devoted to mathematics.

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74. Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno

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San Niccolò Oltrarno is a Roman Catholic church located on Via San Niccolò in the district of the same name in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The narrow district of Niccolò in Oltrarno is hemmed between the hills around San Miniato and the river.

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75. Jewish Museum of Florence

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The Jewish Museum of Florence is a museum of Jewish history located in the Great Synagogue of Florence, Italy. The museum, which covers two spaces of the building, gathers an important collection of ancient objects of Jewish ceremonial art, evidence of the high artistic level achieved by the Jewish-Italian communities in the field of applied arts. Exhibitions illustrate the history of Florentine Jews from the first settlements to the post-war reconstruction, featuring old photographs, films and a large number of objects of daily and commemorative use.

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76. Chiesa di Santa Maria della Neve al Portico

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Santa Maria della Neve al Portico is a Roman Catholic church and convent located on a rural site on Via del Podestà #86 in the suburban neighborhood of Galluzzo southeast of the urban center of Florence, Italy. It remains a monastery and is also known as the Convento Il Portico and now houses the Istituti Religiosi Femminili Suore Stimmatine.

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77. Porta San Giorgio

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Porta San Giorgio Francesco Bini / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Porta San Giorgio is a medieval gateway located on the south-east end of the Oltrarno walls of Florence, Italy. Ramparts of the Belvedere fortress, begun in 1590, stand adjacent to the gate. The road away from Florence soon passes the church of San Leonardo in Arcetri.

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78. Santi Giuseppe e Lucia al Galluzzo

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The church of San Giuseppe is a Roman Catholic church in Galluzzo, a hamlet of Florence, in Via Volterrana. it is the seat of the parish of "Saints Joseph and Lucia al Galluzzo", whose title refers to the new church built after the war and to the old one, which had the patronage of the Petribuoni family, dating back to before the eleventh century and located near the municipal cemetery of the same name.

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79. Piazza Nicola Demidoff

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Piazza Nicola Demidoff is a widening of the historic center of Florence, in the Oltrarno, overlooking the Lungarno Serristori and also from Via dei Renai. It is dedicated to the Russian ambassador Nicola Demidoff.

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80. Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

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The church of Santa Maria Assunta is a Catholic place of worship located in Settignano, a hamlet of Florence. Its foundation dates back to the twelfth century, and was then completely rebuilt in 1518. In 1595 two naves were added to the existing one and later it underwent other radical interventions, especially at the end of the eighteenth century.

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81. Fontana del Bacchino

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The fountain of Bacchus, or fountain of the Dwarf Morgante, is located in the Boboli Gardens in Florence, in the north-east area of Palazzo Pitti on the wall where the Vasari Corridor passes a short distance from the exit of the garden on Piazza Pitti. The sculpture is made of white marble and is 116 cm high.

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