Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Florence, Italy

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 12 km
Ascend 180 m
Descend 174 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 dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio

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The church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio is a Catholic place of worship located in the area north of the center of Florence, in the square of the same name transformed into a public garden in the early 90s, designed by the architect Francesco Bandini. The garden is home to a bronze sculpture by Mastroianni.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio (Firenze) (IT)

1564 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 2: 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)

834 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 3: Nostra Signora degli Angeli

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780 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: San Giuseppe

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San Giuseppe is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church building located on Via San Giuseppe, near Piazza Santa Croce, in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy, and is one of two churches and an oratory in the city dedicated to St Joseph.

Wikipedia: San Giuseppe, Florence (EN)

348 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Casa Buonarroti

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Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence, Italy. The building was a property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo, which he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The house 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 sculptures, the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. A ten-thousand book library includes the family's archive and some of Michelangelo's letters and drawings. The Galleria is decorated with paintings commissioned by Buonarroti the Younger and created by Artemisia Gentileschi and other early seventeenth-century Italian artists.

Wikipedia: Casa Buonarroti (EN)

576 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Remigio

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

Wikipedia: San Remigio, Florence (EN)

457 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di San Carlo dei Lombardi

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San Carlo dei Lombardi is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Calzaiuoli in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It has undergone many refurbishments over the year, and was originally dedicated to Sant'Anna e Michele, but since the early 17th century became the church of the local Lombard community and was dedicated to St Charles Borromeo.

Wikipedia: San Carlo dei Lombardi (EN)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Santa Maria del Fiore

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Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

Wikipedia: Florence Cathedral (EN), Website

350 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Sant'Egidio

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The church of Sant'Egidio is a Catholic place of worship that is located in the center of the portico of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in the historic center of Florence.

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

956 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 10: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia

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The Santa Lucia Family Home in Borgo Pinti in Florence is a charitable institution.

Wikipedia: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia (IT)

587 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Cappella di San Luca

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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 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.

Wikipedia: Chapel of St Luke, Annunziata (EN)

590 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni (IT)

1353 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di San Jacopo Soprarno

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San Jacopo sopr'Arno is a church in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Jacopo sopr'Arno (EN)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Casa Guidi

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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.

Wikipedia: Casa Guidi (EN)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Anfiteatro

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Anfiteatro Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys) / CC BY-SA 2.5

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.

Wikipedia: Anfiteatro di Boboli (IT)

248 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Pegaso

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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.

Wikipedia: Flag of Tuscany (EN)

988 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 17: Brancacci Chapel

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Brancacci Chapel

The Brancacci Chapel is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance" for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period. Construction of the chapel was commissioned by Felice Brancacci and begun in 1422. The paintings were executed over the years 1425 to 1427. Public access is currently gained via the neighbouring convent, designed by Brunelleschi. The church and the chapel are treated as separate places to visit and as such have different opening times and it is quite difficult to see the rest of the church from the chapel.

Wikipedia: Brancacci Chapel (EN)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: 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)

810 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola (Firenze)

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San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy.

Wikipedia: San Francesco di Paola, Florence (EN)

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