Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Florence, Italy

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 11 km
Ascend 260 m
Descend 273 m

Explore Florence 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 FlorenceIndividual Sights in Florence

Sight 1: Chiesa di Santa Maria a Soffiano

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The church of Santa Maria a Soffiano is a Catholic place of worship located in Florence's Soffiano district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria a Soffiano (IT)

858 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di San Paolo a Soffiano

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The church of San Paolo a Soffiano is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Francesco Pesellino, in the Soffiano district of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Paolo a Soffiano (IT)

1836 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 3: Santissimo Crocifisso

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The church of the Most 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)

1253 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa Dei Santi Vito E Modesto A Bellosguardo

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The church of Saints Vito and Modesto is a Catholic place of worship in Florence, home of the homonymous parish, located in via Monte Oliveto, between the hill of Monte Oliveto and the Bellosguardo hill.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Vito e Modesto (Firenze) (IT)

1467 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 5: Giardino Torrigiani

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The Torrigiani Garden is located in Florence between Via de' Serragli, Via del Campuccio and the stretch of walls that runs along Viale Francesco Petrarca. It is a large park with a palace called Casino Torrigiani al Campuccio.

Wikipedia: Giardino Torrigiani (IT), Website

585 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: 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 historical entrance to the complex was from Via della Chiesa, but the garden is only accessible by a gate in Via d'Ardiglione.

Wikipedia: Giardino Nidiaci (IT)

740 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Porta San Frediano

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The Porta San Frediano was the westernmost gate in the 13th-century walls of the Oltrarno section of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located where Borgo San Frediano becomes Via Pisana. This was the access gate to the road to Pisa.

Wikipedia: Porta San Frediano (EN)

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Frediano in Cestello

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San Frediano in Cestello is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno section of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The name cestello derives from the Cistercians who occupied the church in 1628. Previously the site had a 1450s church attached to the cloistered Carmelite convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Wikipedia: San Frediano in Cestello (EN)

630 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 9: St Mark's

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Saint Mark's English Church is an Anglican church in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: St Mark's English Church, Florence (EN)

369 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Colonna della Giustizia

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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 as 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)

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Palazzo Strozzi del Poeta

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The Palazzo Strozzi del Poeta, or Giaconi, is located in Florence in via Tornabuoni 5.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Strozzi del Poeta (IT)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Palazzo Minerbetti

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The Palazzo Minerbetti is an urban palace building located on Via de' Tornabuoni #3 at the corner with Via del Parione, which edges into the Piazza Santa Trinita, Florence, in central Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Minerbetti (EN)

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Palazzo dello Strozzino

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Palazzo dello Strozzino is a Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. The stone Renaissance facade is located on Piazza degli Strozzi, diagonal to the Southeast corner of the imposing Palazzo Strozzi. The Northern façade on Via dei Anselmi houses the entrance to the Cinema Odeon.

Wikipedia: Palazzo dello Strozzino (EN)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Le Giubbe Rosse

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Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical literary café in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence. When opened in 1896, the cafè was actually called "Fratelli Reininghaus". It was named "Giubbe Rosse" in 1910, after the red jackets which waiters used to wear every day.

Wikipedia: Caffè Giubbe Rosse (EN)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Palazzo Davanzati

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Palazzo Davanzati is a palace in Florence, Italy. It houses the Museum of the Old Florentine House.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Davanzati (EN)

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

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Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy, is a fashion museum dedicated to the life and work of Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo and his eponymous company.

Wikipedia: Salvatore Ferragamo Museum (EN), Website

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli

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The Church of Santi Apostoli is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church in the historic center of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is among the oldest church buildings in Florence.

Wikipedia: Santi Apostoli, Florence (EN)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte

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Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte

The diocesan museum of sacred art, housed in the premises of the rectory and the spaces adjacent to the church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, was the diocesan museum of Florence. The collection consisted of works from Florentine churches, removed in the second half of the twentieth century for conservation and safety reasons.

Wikipedia: Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte (IT)

458 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa dei Santi Girolamo e Francesco alla Costa

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The church of Saints Jerome and Francis at the Costa is a Catholic place of worship located along the steep Costa San Giorgio, a street that climbs to the fort of Belvedere from the Ponte Vecchio, in the center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Girolamo e Francesco alla Costa (IT)

945 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 20: Giardino di Madama

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The Boboli Gardens is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which later served as inspiration for many European courts. The large green area is a real open-air museum with statues of various styles and periods, ancient and Renaissance that are distributed throughout the garden. It also has large fountains and caves, among them the splendid Buontalenti grotto built by the artist, architect, and sculptor Bernardo Buontalenti between 1536 and 1608.

Wikipedia: Boboli Gardens (EN)

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