Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Florence, Italy

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Number of sights 47 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 147 m
Descend 141 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: 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 historic entrance to the complex was from Via della Chiesa, but the garden is accessible only from a gate in Via d'Ardiglione.

Wikipedia: Giardino Nidiaci (IT)

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine

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Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence (EN)

534 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Colonna di Santa Felicita

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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 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)

494 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa di Orsanmichele

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Orsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence. The building was constructed on the site of the kitchen garden of the monastery of San Michele which no longer exists.

Wikipedia: Orsanmichele (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: San Giorgio di Donatello

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Saint George is a marble sculpture by Donatello. It is one of fourteen sculptures commissioned by the guilds of Florence to decorate the external niches of the Orsanmichele church. St. George was commissioned by the guild of the armorers and sword makers, the Arte dei Corazzai e Spadai.

Wikipedia: Saint George (Donatello) (EN)

89 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Torre dei della Bella

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The Torre dei Della Bella is an old tower of Florence, Italy and is located in Via dei Tavolini.

Wikipedia: Torre dei Della Bella (EN)

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Corso Street

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Via del Corso, also called simply Il Corso, is one of the streets in the historic center of Florence, between Via dei Calzaiuoli and Via del Proconsolo.

Wikipedia: Via del Corso (Firenze) (IT)

7 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Torre dei Ghiberti

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Torre dei Ghiberti sailko / CC BY 2.5

The tower of the Ghiberti, or of the Widows, is located in Via del Corso 48 red, at the corner of Via Sant'Elisabetta in Florence.

Wikipedia: Torre dei Ghiberti (IT)

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Torre dei Donati

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The Donati Tower is one of the ancient towers in the historic center of Florence, located in Via del Corso at numbers 31-33 red.

Wikipedia: Torre dei Donati (IT)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Studio Fiorentino

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The Studio Fiorentino is located in Florence in the homonymous Via dello Studio at number 1.

Wikipedia: Studio Fiorentino (IT)

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo

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The Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo, also known as Palazzo Matteucci is a palace located on Borgo degli Albizi #26 in central Florence, region of Tuscany Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Santa Margherita dei Cerchi

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The Chiesa di Santa Margherita de' Cerchi is a 13th-century, Roman Catholic church dedicated to Margaret the Virgin in the centre of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is among the oldest churches in Florence.

Wikipedia: Santa Margherita de' Cerchi (EN)

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: Casa di Dante

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The Museum of Dante's House is located in one of the oldest parts of the historic center of Florence, on Via Santa Margherita.

Wikipedia: Casa di Dante (IT)

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Oratorio dei Buonomini di San Martino

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The Oratory of the Buonomini di San Martino is a Catholic place of worship in the center of Florence located in the small square of the same name in San Martino, at the end of Via de' Magazzini, at the corner of Via Dante Alighieri, located in front of the Chestnut Tower.

Wikipedia: Oratorio dei Buonomini di San Martino (IT)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Palazzo Rinuccini

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The ancient Palazzo Rinuccini is located in Via de' Cimatori at the corner of Piazza de' Cerchi in Florence and is one of the oldest palaces of the family.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Rinuccini (via de' Cimatori) (IT)

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Statua equestre di Cosimo

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The Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I is a bronze equestrian statue executed by Giambologna from 1587 to 1594, and erected in 1594 in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Equestrian Monument of Cosimo I (EN)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Fontana del Nettuno

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The Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, is situated in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of Francesco de' Medici I to Grand Duchess Joanna of Austria. Cosimo I de' Medici was the Duke of Florence from 1537-1569 and responsible for a vast number of architectural and artistic elements in Florence that still exist today.

Wikipedia: Fountain of Neptune, Florence (EN)

84 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Loggia dei Lanzi

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Loggia dei Lanzi Carolo Canella / CC BY 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Loggia dei Lanzi (EN)

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 20: Rape of the Sabine Women

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Rape of the Sabine Women No machine-readable author provided. Thermos assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 2.5

Abduction of a Sabine Woman is a large and complex marble statue by the Flemish sculptor and architect Giambologna. It was completed between 1579 and 1583 for Cosimo I de' Medici. Giambologna achieved widespread fame in his lifetime, and this work is widely considered his masterpiece. It has been in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, since August 1582.

Wikipedia: Abduction of a Sabine Woman (EN)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Galleria degli Uffizi

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Galleria degli Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.

Wikipedia: Uffizi (EN), Website

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Loggia del Grano

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The Loggia del Grano in Florence is located in Piazza del Grano, on the corner of Via de' Neri and Via de' Castellani, at the back of the Uffizi Gallery and a few steps from Piazza della Signoria.

Wikipedia: Loggia del Grano (IT)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Palazzo dei Veliti

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The Palazzo dei Vèliti is a historic building in Florence, located close to the Uffizi in via de' Castellani 1-3. Today it is home to the "Firenze Uffizi" Carabinieri Station.

Wikipedia: Palazzo dei Veliti (IT)

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

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Museo Galileo is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, is housed in Palazzo Castellani, an 11th-century building which was then known as the Castello d'Altafronte.

Wikipedia: Museo Galileo (EN), Website

219 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Oratorio di Santa Maria delle Grazie

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The oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie is a Catholic place of worship in the historic center of Florence, located on the Lungarno Diaz, near the Ponte alle Grazie.

Wikipedia: Oratorio di Santa Maria delle Grazie (Firenze) (IT)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Palazzo Fossi

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Palazzo Fossi is located in Via de' Benci 4 in Florence, overlooking Via Mozza.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Fossi (IT)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Chiesa evangelica metodista

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Chiesa evangelica metodista Francesco Bini / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Evangelical Methodist church is a Methodist place of worship located in Via de' Benci in Florence, formerly a Catholic church with the name of San Jacopo tra i Fossi.

Wikipedia: Chiesa evangelica metodista (Firenze) (IT)

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Chiesa di San Remigio

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San Remigio di Firenze is a church in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Remigio, Florence (EN)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Ex Tribunale della Mercanzia

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The seat of the Tribunale della Mercanzia is a historic building in Florence, located in Piazza della Signoria behind the equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Today this palace houses the Gucci Museum.

Wikipedia: Tribunale della Mercanzia (IT)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Chiesa evangelica dei fratelli

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180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 31: Fontana dell'Agnellino

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Fontana dell'Agnellino Francesco Bini / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Fountain of the Lamb is located in Florence in Via dei Lavatoi at the corner of Via Isola delle Stinche and overlooking Piazza San Simone, on the building of the Verdi theater.

Wikipedia: Fontana dell'Agnellino (IT)

147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: 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 the Cocchi Serristori palace.

Wikipedia: Fontana di piazza Santa Croce (IT)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 33: Palazzo dell'Antella

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Palazzo dell'Antella is a palace with a frescoed façade located on Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo dell'Antella (EN)

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 34: Statua Dante Alighieri

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The Statue of Dante Alighieri is a monument to Dante Alighieri in Piazza Santa Croce, outside the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, Italy. Erected in 1865, it is the work of the sculptor Enrico Pazzi.

Wikipedia: Monument to Dante (EN)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 35: Borgo Allegri Garden

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The garden of Borgo Allegri is located in the street of the same name in the historic center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Giardino di Borgo Allegri (IT)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 36: 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)

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 37: Loggia del Pesce

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The Loggia del Pesce is a historical building in Florence, Italy. It is formed by nine wide arcades, supported by piers or columns. On each side are eight medallions depicting fishing activities and the sea. At the corners are four coats of arms.

Wikipedia: Loggia del Pesce (EN)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 38: Oratorio della Compagnia di San Michele della Pace

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The oratory of the Compagnia di San Michele della Pace, or oratory of the Agnolo, is located in Piazza Sant'Ambrogio in Florence, in front of the church of Sant'Ambrogio.

Wikipedia: Oratorio della Compagnia di San Michele della Pace (IT)

68 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 39: Church of Saint Ambrose

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Sant'Ambrogio is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is named in honour of St Ambrose.

Wikipedia: Sant'Ambrogio, Florence (EN)

38 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 40: Santi Crispino e Crespiniano

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The oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Neve, also known as Saints Crispino and Crespiniano, is a Catholic place of worship located in Borgo la Croce 36 in Florence.

Wikipedia: Oratorio della Compagnia di Santa Maria della Neve (IT)

303 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 41: Porta alla Croce

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The Porta alla Croce is a former gate of the Walls of Florence, locate east of the neighborhood of Santa Croce, in the Piazza Beccaria of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The gate was part of the fourth set of walls around Florence built in the late 13th century.

Wikipedia: Porta alla Croce, Florence (EN)

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 42: Sede ACI

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The ACI headquarters in Florence is located in viale Giovanni Amendola 36, at the corner of via Giotto 57-59-61.

Wikipedia: Sede ACI (Firenze) (IT)

848 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 43: Piazza D'Azeglio

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Piazza Massimo d'Azeglio is a large, rectangular tree-lined square in the historic center of Florence. Not far from the avenues of Circonvallazione, numerous streets lead to it: via Alfieri, via Farini, via Giusti, via della Colonna, via Carducci, via Niccolini, via Giordani and via Silvio Pellico.

Wikipedia: Piazza d'Azeglio (IT)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 44: Villini Servadio

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The Servadio villas are a complex of buildings in Florence, located in Piazza d'Azeglio 2-3.

Wikipedia: Villini Servadio (IT)

490 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 45: Villa Dandini de Silva

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Villa Dandini de Silva is located in Florence on viale Giuseppe Mazzini 2-4, at the corner of via Carlo Botta and viale Antonio Grasci 26.

Wikipedia: Villa Dandini de Silva (IT)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 46: Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento e del Preziosissimo Sangue

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

Wikipedia: Chiesino del Suffragio (IT)

473 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 47: Sacro Cuore

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The Chiesa del Sacro Cuore is located in Via Capo di Mondo in Florence.

Wikipedia: Sacro Cuore, Florence (EN)

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