Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Arezzo, Italy
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3.7 km
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 ArezzoSight 1: Anfiteatro Romano
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".
Sight 2: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Gaio Cilnio Mecenate
The Gaio Cilnio Mecenate State Archaeological Museum is the most important archaeological museum of Arezzo.
Wikipedia: Museo archeologico statale Gaio Cilnio Mecenate (IT), Website
Sight 3: Chiesa di San Bernardo
The church of San Bernardo is a sacred building in Arezzo, Italy.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità
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.
Sight 6: Teatro Petrarca
The Petrarca Theater is a theater in Arezzo.
Sight 7: Basilica di San Francesco
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.
Sight 8: San Michele
The church of Saints Michele and Adriano is a religious building in Arezzo.
Sight 9: Sant'Agostino
The church of Sant'Agostino is a church in Arezzo that stands in the homonymous square.
Sight 10: Pieve di Santa Maria
Santa Maria della Pieve is a church in Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy.
Sight 11: Duomo di Arezzo
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.
Sight 12: Chiesa di San Domenico
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.
Sight 13: Vasari House Museum
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.
Sight 14: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata
The Church of Santissima Annunziata is a Roman Catholic church in Arezzo, Italy, Italy.
Sight 15: La Chimera
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.
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