Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #10 in Florence, Italy

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Number of sights 38 sights
Distance 12.9 km
Ascend 124 m
Descend 128 m

Experience Florence in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in FlorenceIndividual Sights in Florence

Sight 1: Giardini della Fortezza

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The gardens of the Fortezza, also known as the Vascone, are located on the east side of the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, between the ramparts and Viale Filippo Strozzi.

Wikipedia: Giardini della Fortezza (IT)

483 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: 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)

454 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Giuseppino

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The church of San Giuseppe, known as San Giuseppino, is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence, in Via Santa Caterina d'Alessandria and on the corner with Via delle Ruote.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuseppino (IT)

577 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di Sant'Agata

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The church of Sant'Agata is a Catholic place of worship located on Via San Gallo in Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Agata (Firenze) (IT)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Porta San Gallo

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Porta San Gallo

The San Gallo Gate is part of the city walls of Florence and is located in Piazza della Libertà, opposite the Triumphal Arch.

Wikipedia: San Gallo Gate (EN)

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: 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)

590 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Francesco

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The church of San Francesco is a Catholic place of worship located in Piazza Savonarola in Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Francesco (Firenze) (IT)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Teatro Le Laudi

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The Teatro Le Laudi is a theater in Florence.

Wikipedia: Teatro Le Laudi (IT)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo

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The Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo is a museum encompassing the small palace and studio of the artist Rinaldo Carnielo (1853-1910), located on Piazza Savonarola #3, Florence, region of Tuscany. Italy.

Wikipedia: Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo (EN)

634 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: 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

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Palazzo Pandolfini

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Palazzo Pandolfini is one of the most beautiful buildings of the late Renaissance in Florence and is located in Via San Gallo 74, overlooking Via Salvestrina and the entrance to the garden on Via Cavour 79.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Pandolfini (IT)

84 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di San Giovannino dei Cavalieri

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San Giovannino dei Cavalieri previously named Church of San Giovanni Decollato, is a parish church situated in Via San Gallo in central Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Giovannino dei Cavalieri (EN)

597 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Palazzo Ginori-Conti

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Palazzo Ginori-Conti is located in Florence in via Cavour, 13.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Ginori-Conti (IT)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo Ginori

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Palazzo Ginori is a Renaissance-style palace in Via de' Ginori # 11 in the Quartieri San Giovanni of the city of Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Ginori (EN)

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Palazzo Taddei

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Palazzo Taddei is located in Florence in via de' Ginori 15.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Taddei (IT)

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Barnaba

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The church of San Barnaba is a small Renaissance-style church in the center of Florence, at the corner of Via Panicale and Via Guelfa.

Wikipedia: San Barnaba, Florence (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Tabernacolo delle Fonticine

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The tabernacle of the Fonticine is one of the most beautiful tabernacles in Florence. Consisting of a large Della Robbia altarpiece and also equipped with a basin with fountains, it is located in Via Nazionale, on the axis of Via dell'Ariento, a few steps from the San Lorenzo market.

Wikipedia: Tabernacolo delle Fonticine (IT)

86 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Cenacolo di Fuligno

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The Last Supper of Fuligno is a museum in Florence, dedicated to the great Last Supper by Pietro Perugino, in the refectory of the former monastery of Sant'Onofrio, also known as the monastery of the nuns of Foligno.

Wikipedia: Cenacolo di Fuligno (IT), Website

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Firenze)

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The church of San Giuliano is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Faenza in the historic center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Firenze) (IT)

364 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Porta a Faenza

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The gate in Faenza was a city gate in the walls of Florence, built with the last thirteenth-century circle and then incorporated into the city walls.

Wikipedia: Porta a Faenza (IT)

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Palazzo dei Congressi

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The Palazzo dei Congressi is a building in Florence located near the Santa Maria Novella railway station. Born as Villino Strozzi on the initiative of the Strozzi family 'of Mantua', the villa is also known as Villa Vittoria when Alessandro Contini Bonacossi took over the property in 1931. It was purchased in 1964 by the Florentine autonomous tourist board and destined for current use through extensions by Enzo Vannucci and Pierluigi Spadolini.

Wikipedia: Palazzo dei Congressi (Firenze) (IT)

635 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 23: Chiesa della Beata Elisabetta Vendramini

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The church of Blessed Elisabetta Vendramini is a Catholic place of worship located in Via degli Orti Oricellari in Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Beata Elisabetta Vendramini (IT)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Orti Oricellari

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The Orti Oricellari are 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)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa di San Jacopo di Ripoli

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The church of San Jacopo di Ripoli is a Catholic place of worship located in Via della Scala in Florence, in the Santa Maria Novella area.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Jacopo di Ripoli (IT)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Giardino Corsini

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

Wikipedia: Giardino Corsini (IT)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Saint James

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The American Episcopal Church of St. James is an Anglican and Old Catholic church located in via Bernardo Rucellai 13 in Florence, in front of the Orti Oricellari and behind the Corsini Garden.

Wikipedia: Chiesa episcopale americana di Saint James (IT)

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 28: Chiesa dell'Adorazione Perpetua

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The Church of Perpetual Adoration is a Catholic place of worship in Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Adorazione Perpetua (IT)

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 29: Monumento a Garibaldi

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The Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi is a celebratory sculpture of Florence, located on the Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci in the widening between Villa Favard and Palazzo Calcagnini Arese. In bronze, cast in 1890 by the sculptor Cesare Zocchi, placed on a high stone pedestal.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Garibaldi (Firenze) (IT)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 30: Teatro Comunale

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The Teatro Comunale di Firenze is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city. After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882. By 1911 it had both electricity and heating.

Wikipedia: Teatro Comunale, Florence (EN)

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 31: 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 ring roads, at the convergence of Viale Fratelli Rosselli, Via del Ponte alle Mosse, Viale Belfiore and Prato di Ognissanti.

Wikipedia: Porta al Prato (IT)

236 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 32: Firenze Porta al Prato

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

Wikipedia: Stazione di Firenze Porta al Prato (IT)

996 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 33: Chiesa di Santa Maria al Pignone

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The church of Santa Maria al Pignone is a Catholic place of worship in Florence located in the square of the same name, between Via Felice Cavallotti and Via della Fonderia, and today represents one of the few meeting spaces in the Florentine district of the same name of Pignone, located west of San Frediano in the Oltrarno area. The name of the suburb derives from an ancient wall structure for the mooring of boats that traveled along the Arno, called "pine cone".

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria al Pignone (IT)

926 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 34: Teatro Cantiere Florida

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The Teatro Cantiere Florida is a theater in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Teatro Cantiere Florida (IT), Website

58 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 35: Chiesa di San Piero a Monticelli

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The church of San Pietro a Monticelli is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence, on the corner of Via Pisana and Via di Soffiano.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Piero a Monticelli (IT)

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 36: Santissimo Crocifisso

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The church of the Holy Crucifix in Monticelli is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence in Via Pietro di Cosimo.

Wikipedia: Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso (Firenze) (IT)

911 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 37: nuova Chiesa di Sant'Angelo a Legnaia

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The church of Sant'Angelo a Legnaia is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Pisana in Florence, within the Legnaia district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Angelo a Legnaia (IT)

748 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 38: Chiesa di San Quirico a Legnaia

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The church of San Quirico a Legnaia is a Catholic place of worship in Florence, located within the San Quirico district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Quirico a Legnaia (IT)

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