Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Arezzo, Italy

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 3.7 km
Ascend 99 m
Descend 106 m

Explore Arezzo in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in ArezzoIndividual Sights in Arezzo

Sight 1: Anfiteatro Romano

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Anfiteatro Romano Francesco Mulas Original uploader was Fmulas at it.wikipedia / CC BY 3.0

The Roman amphitheatre of Arezzo is an archaeological site from the Roman era built in Arezzo which is located in the southern part of the "walled city".

Wikipedia: Anfiteatro romano di Arezzo (IT), Website

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Gaio Cilnio Mecenate

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The Gaio Cilnio Mecenate State Archaeological Museum is the most important archaeological museum of Arezzo.

Wikipedia: Museo archeologico statale Gaio Cilnio Mecenate (IT), Website

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa di San Bernardo

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The church of San Bernardo is a sacred building in Arezzo, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Bernardo (Arezzo) (IT)

373 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: A Guido Monaco - 1882

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A Guido Monaco - 1882

Guido of Arezzo was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice. Perhaps the most significant European writer on music between Boethius and Johannes Tinctoris, after the former's De institutione musica, Guido's Micrologus was the most widely distributed medieval treatise on music.

Wikipedia: Guido of Arezzo (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità

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The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Catholic place of worship in the historic center of Arezzo, located along Via Garibaldi, formerly Via Sacra, overlooking Piazza del Popolo. The place of worship and the annexed rooms are the seat of the Archconfraternity of the Misericordia of Arezzo, which is why the church is also called the Church of the Misericordia.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità (Arezzo) (IT)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Teatro Petrarca

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Teatro Petrarca Photo2023 / CC BY 4.0

The Petrarca Theater is a theater in Arezzo.

Wikipedia: Teatro Petrarca (IT)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Basilica di San Francesco

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The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. It is especially renowned for housing in the chancel the fresco cycle Legends of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca.

Wikipedia: Basilica of San Francesco, Arezzo (EN), Website

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: San Michele

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The church of Saints Michele and Adriano is a religious building in Arezzo.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Michele (Arezzo) (IT)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Sant'Agostino

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Sant'Agostino

The church of Sant'Agostino is a church in Arezzo that stands in the homonymous square.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Agostino (Arezzo) (IT)

426 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Pieve di Santa Maria

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Santa Maria della Pieve is a church in Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Pieve (EN)

610 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Duomo di Arezzo

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Arezzo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Arezzo in Tuscany, Italy. It is located on the site of a pre-existing Palaeo-Christian church and, perhaps, of the ancient city's acropolis.

Wikipedia: Arezzo Cathedral (EN)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di San Domenico

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The Basilica of San Domenico is a Gothic-style church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Dominic. It is especially renowned for housing a painted crucifix (1265) by Cimabue.

Wikipedia: San Domenico, Arezzo (EN)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Vasari House Museum

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The Casa Vasari is a building at 55 via XX Settembre in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. It was the family home of the painter, art historian and architect Giorgio Vasari. It houses a number of frescoes and since December 2014 the Italian Ministry of Culture has run it through the Polo museale della Toscana, which was renamed the Direzione regionale Musei in December 2019. It houses the Archivio Vasariano.

Wikipedia: Casa Vasari, Arezzo (EN), Website

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata

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Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata

The Church of Santissima Annunziata is a Roman Catholic church in Arezzo, Italy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata (Arezzo) (IT)

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: La Chimera

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The Chimera of Arezzo is regarded as the best example of ancient Etruscan art. The British art historian David Ekserdjian described the sculpture as "one of the most arresting of all animal sculptures and the supreme masterpiece of Etruscan bronze-casting". Made entirely of bronze and measuring 78.5 cm high with a length of 129 cm, it was found alongside a small collection of other bronze statues in Arezzo, an ancient Etruscan and Roman city in Tuscany. The statue was originally part of a larger sculptural group representing a fight between a chimera and the Greek hero Bellerophon. This sculpture is likely to have been created as a votive offering to the Etruscan god Tinia and is held by the National Archaeological Museum, Florence.

Wikipedia: Chimera of Arezzo (EN)

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