Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Florence, Italy
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9.7 km
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Experience Florence in Italy in a whole new way with our 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: Sant'Ilario a Colombaia
Sant'Ilario a Colombaia is a Roman Catholic parish church just outside the Porta Romana, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 2: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista della Calza
The church of San Giovanni Battista della Calza is a Catholic place of worship that is part of the Calza complex, founded in 1362 as the hospital of San Giovanni Battista, and is located in Piazza della Calza 6, opposite Porta Romana, in the Oltrarno district in the historic center of Florence.
Sight 3: Chiesa di San Pier Gattolino
The church of San Pier Gattolino is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Romana in Florence.
Sight 4: Oratorio di San Sebastiano de' Bini
The Oratory of San Sebastiano de' Bini, also known as "spedalizzo" or "spedaluzzo di Santo Spirito", is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Romana in Florence, Italy.
Sight 5: Colonna di San Felice
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.
Sight 6: Casa Guidi
Casa Guidi is a writer's house museum in the 15th-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. The piano nobile apartment was inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 1847 and Mrs Browning's death in 1861. Their only child, Robert Barrett Browning was born there in 1849.
Sight 7: Chiesa di San Felice in Piazza
The Chiesa di San Felice is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located on the south bank of the River Arno, just west of the Pitti Palace. It is predominantly Gothic, but has a Renaissance façade by Michelozzo, added in 1457. Over the high altar is a large Crucifix attributed to Giotto or his school.
Sight 8: Basilica di Santa Maria del Santo Spirito
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.
Sight 9: Galleria Palatina
The Palatine Gallery is a museum housed in the Pitti Palace in Florence, which is part of the Uffizi Galleries, together with the Boboli Gardens.
Sight 10: Artichoke Fountain
The Artichoke Fountain is located in Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
Sight 11: Anfiteatro
The Boboli Amphitheatre is one of the main architectures of the Florentine Boboli Gardens at Palazzo Pitti, which embellishes the main axis, centered on the rear façade of the palace. Used as a place for summer performances, it is the oldest court theatre in Florence that has come down to us, after the loss of the Teatrino della Dogana and the Teatro Mediceo.
Sight 12: Porcelain Museum
The Porcelain Museum is located in the Casino del Cavaliere, one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.
Sight 13: Pegaso
The flag of Tuscany is the official flag of the region of Tuscany, Italy. The flag depicts a silver Pegasus rampant on a white field between two horizontal red bands. The flag first appeared as a gonfalon on 20 May 1975 along with accompanying text Regione Toscana above the Pegasus. It was officially adopted as the flag of Tuscany on 3 February 1995.
Sight 14: Fontana dell'Oceano
The Fountain of the Ocean, the work of Giambologna, is located in the Boboli Gardens in Florence.
Sight 15: Giardino Torrigiani
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.
Sight 16: Chiesa di Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite
Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite is a formerly Roman Catholic church on Via de' Serragli in the Oltrarno neighborhood of Florence region of Tuscany, Italy. Since 2015, the church has functioned as a Georgian Orthodox church. The former adjacent convent has multiple uses, including in 2016 as the Istituti Pio X Artigianelli.
Sight 17: 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.
Sight 18: Chiesa di Santa Lucia dei Magnoli
Santa Lucia or Santa Lucia dei Magnoli is a Roman Catholic church located on via de'Bardi in Oltrarno district of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 19: Chiesa evangelica luterana
The Evangelical Lutheran Church is a religious building in the historic center of Florence, located on the Lungarno Torrigiani, at the southwest end of the Martin Luther Gardens.
Sight 20: Piazza Nicola Demidoff
Piazza Nicola Demidoff is a widening of the historic center of Florence, in the Oltrarno, overlooking the Lungarno Serristori and also from Via dei Renai. It is dedicated to the Russian ambassador Nicola Demidoff.
Sight 21: Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno
San Niccolò Oltrarno is a Roman Catholic church located on Via San Niccolò in the district of the same name in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The narrow district of Niccolò in Oltrarno is hemmed between the hills around San Miniato and the river.
Sight 22: Giardino Giuliani
The Giuliani Garden is a private urban space in the historic center of Florence, with an entrance on the Costa Scarpuccia 7.
Sight 23: Giardino Bardini
The Giardino Bardini is an Italian Renaissance garden of the Villa Bardini in the hilly part of Oltrarno, offering fine views of Florence, Italy. Opened only recently to the public, it is one of Florence's well kept secrets.
Sight 24: Villa Bardini
Villa Bardini, formerly Villa Manadora, is located on the San Giorgio 2 coast in Florence. Today it is an exhibition center that hosts temporary exhibitions and the Annigoni Museum; until 2017 it also housed the Capucci Museum. The park of the villa is the scenic Bardini Garden, which can now be visited separately with the same ticket as the Boboli Gardens. In addition, the "Bardinicontemporanea" space offers contemporary art exhibitions with free admission.
Sight 25: Casa di Galileo Galilei
Sight 26: Chiesa di San Giorgio alla Costa
The church of San Giorgio alla Costa, called in earlier times also dei Santi Giorgio e Massimiliano dello Spirito Santo is a small historical church in the Oltrarno district of the centre of Florence, situated on the steep slope of via Costa San Giorgio which runs uphill from Ponte Vecchio to Forte di Belvedere.
Sight 27: Chiesa dei Santi Girolamo e Francesco alla Costa
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)
Sight 28: Chiesa di Santa Felicita
Santa Felicita is a Roman Catholic church in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, probably the oldest in the city after San Lorenzo. In the 2nd century, Syrian Greek merchants settled in the area south of the Arno and are thought to have brought Christianity to the region. The first church on the site was probably built in the late 4th century or early 5th century and was dedicated to Saint Felicity of Rome. A new church was built in the 11th century and the current church largely dates from 1736–1739, under design by Ferdinando Ruggieri, who turned it into a one nave edifice. The monastery was suppressed under the Napoleonic occupation of 1808–1810.
Sight 29: Fontana del Bacchino
The fountain of Bacchus, or fountain of the Dwarf Morgante, is located in the Boboli Gardens in Florence, in the north-east area of Palazzo Pitti on the wall where the Vasari Corridor passes a short distance from the exit of the garden on Piazza Pitti. The sculpture is made of white marble and is 116 cm high.
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