Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Florence, Italy
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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 FlorenceSight 1: Orti Oricellari
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.
Sight 2: Chiesa di San Jacopo di Ripoli
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.
Sight 3: Chiesa della Beata Elisabetta Vendramini
The church of Blessed Elisabetta Vendramini is a Catholic place of worship located in Via degli Orti Oricellari in Florence.
Sight 4: Palazzo dei Congressi
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.
Sight 5: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Firenze)
The church of San Giuliano is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Faenza in the historic center of Florence.
Sight 6: Cenacolo di Fuligno
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.
Sight 7: Tabernacolo delle Fonticine
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.
Sight 8: Chiesa di San Barnaba
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.
Sight 9: Palazzo Taddei
Palazzo Taddei is located in Florence in via de' Ginori 15.
Sight 10: Palazzo Ginori
Palazzo Ginori is a Renaissance-style palace in Via de' Ginori # 11 in the Quartieri San Giovanni of the city of Florence, Italy.
Sight 11: Palazzo Ginori-Conti
Palazzo Ginori-Conti is located in Florence in via Cavour, 13.
Sight 12: Palazzo di Bernardetto de' Medici
The Palace of Bernardetto de' Medici, later Vai, is located in Via Cavour 31, at the corner of Via Guelfa, in Florence.
Sight 13: Palazzo Bartolommei
Palazzo Bartolommei is a palace in Florence located in via Cavour 22-24.
Sight 14: Palazzo Bastogi
Palazzo Bastogi, is located in Via Cavour in Florence.
Sight 15: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni
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.
Sight 16: Cenacolo Di Sant'Apollonia
Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339, just north of the center of Florence, in Italy.
Sight 17: Ex chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battilani
The former church of Santa Maria dei Battilani is located in via Santa Reparata 25r-27r in Florence, with ancient entrances in via delle Ruote 17 and via San Zanobi 80.
Sight 18: Basilica di San Marco
St. Mark's Basilica in Florence is one of the churches in the historic city center, dominating a crowded square and acting as a reference point for the surrounding urban area. The church was originally part of the large complex of the convent of San Marco, in which many of the most important representatives of fifteenth-century spirituality and culture lived and worked: Cosimo the Elder, St. Antoninus, Fra Angelico, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Fra Bartolomeo, Tommaso Caccini and, above all, Fra' Girolamo Savonarola, who preached against the decadence of morals, ending up hanged and burned in Piazza della Signoria in 1498. From 1934 the mayor of Florence Giorgio La Pira also lived there, later buried in the Basilica.
Sight 19: Chiostro dello Scalzo
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.
Sight 20: Casino mediceo di San Marco
The Casino Mediceo di San Marco is a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style palace located on Via Cavour number 57 and via San Gallo in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 21: Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Geologia e Paleontologia
The Museum of Geology and Paleontology in Florence preserves and exhibits fossils of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, which lived millions of years ago, as well as fossil plants and rocks.
Wikipedia: Museo di storia naturale sezione di geologia e paleontologia (IT)
Sight 22: Generale Manfredo Fanti
The Monument to General Manfredo Fanti commemorates General Manfredo Fanti (1806-1865), a soldier and leader in battles for Italian independence and unification. The statue, erected in 1873, is located in the Piazza San Marco in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Wikipedia: Monument to General Manfredo Fanti, Florence (EN)
Sight 23: Galleria dell'Accademia
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.
Sight 24: Fontane dei mostri marini
The two fontane dei mostri marini are located in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy.
Sight 25: Spedale degli Innocenti
The Ospedale degli Innocenti, also known in old Tuscan dialect as the Spedale degli Innocenti, is a historic building in Florence, Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in 1419 from the Arte della Seta. It was originally a children's orphanage. It is regarded as a notable example of early Italian Renaissance architecture. The hospital, which features a nine bay loggia facing the Piazza SS. Annunziata, was built and managed by the "Arte della Seta" or Silk Guild of Florence. That guild was one of the wealthiest in the city and, like most guilds, took upon itself philanthropic duties.
Sight 26: Statua equestre di Ferdinando I
The Equestrian Monument of Ferdinando I is a bronze equestrian statue by Giambologna, executed in 1602–1607, and erected in 1608 in the Piazza of the Annunziata in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 27: Volta degli Innocenti
The Vault of the Innocents is a passage over Via della Colonna at the height of Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Florence. It was built to connect the two buildings of the Spedale degli Innocenti.
Sight 28: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze
The National Archaeological Museum of Florence is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy. It is located at 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta.
Wikipedia: National Archaeological Museum, Florence (EN), Website
Sight 29: Oratorio di San Pierino
The oratory of San Pierino, formerly the headquarters of the Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata, is located in Via Gino Capponi, in the historic center of Florence.
Sight 30: Basilica della Santissima Annunziata
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.
Sight 31: Cappella di San Luca
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.
Sight 32: Fondazione Scienza e tecnica
The Science and Technology Foundation is a scientific and cultural institution based in Florence in via Giusti 29, where it manages the Museum of the Science and Technology Foundation.
Sight 33: Chiesa Evangelica Valdese di Firenze (Holy Trinity Church)
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.
Sight 34: Chiesa di San Giovannino dei Cavalieri
San Giovannino dei Cavalieri previously named Church of San Giovanni Decollato, is a parish church situated in Via San Gallo in central Florence, Italy.
Sight 35: Palazzo Pandolfini
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.
Sight 36: Chiesa di Sant'Agata
The church of Sant'Agata is a Catholic place of worship located on Via San Gallo in Florence.
Sight 37: 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.
Sight 38: Arco di Trionfo
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.
Sight 39: Chiesa di San Francesco
The church of San Francesco is a Catholic place of worship located in Piazza Savonarola in Florence.
Sight 40: Teatro Le Laudi
The Teatro Le Laudi is a theater in Florence.
Sight 41: Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo
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.
Sight 42: Palazzo di San Clemente
Palazzo di San Clemente is a residential palace in Florence, Italy.
Sight 43: Ex chiesa della Capponcina
The church of the Caponcina is a former worship place located in Florence in via Gino Capponi 56.
Sight 44: Villa Donatello
Villa Donatello is a building built around 1870 on the Viali di Circonvallazione in Florence as the Florentine residence of the Rospigliosi princes. Until 2018 it hosted the activities of a private medical-health facility of the same name.
Sight 45: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia
The Santa Lucia family house in Borgo Pinti in Florence is a charitable institute.
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