Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 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: Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento e del Preziosissimo Sangue
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.
Sight 2: Villa Dandini de Silva
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.
Sight 3: Monumento a Giuseppe Mazzini
The monument to Giuseppe Mazzini is located in Florence, in the open space between Viale Antonio Gramsci and Viale Giuseppe Mazzini.
Sight 4: Villini Servadio
The Servadio villas are a complex of buildings in Florence, located in Piazza d'Azeglio 2-3.
Sight 5: Villa Sepp
Villa Sepp is a building in Florence, located in Piazza d'Azeglio 30-33, at the corner of Via della Colonna 2.
Sight 6: Sinagoga di Firenze
The Great Synagogue of Florence is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located at Via Luigi Carlo Farini 4, in Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. Designed in the Italian and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was completed in 1882.
Sight 7: Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church and a former convent located in Borgo Pinti in central Florence, Italy.
Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Maria di Candeli
Santa Maria dei Candeli is a former Roman Catholic church situated in the Borgo Pinti in central Florence, Region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 9: Ex ospizio di Orbatello
The Orbatello Hospice is a building in Florence where the Art History Library of the University of Florence is located; previously, since its foundation in the fourteenth century, it was a place of welcome for women in difficulty.
Sight 10: Museo fiorentino di preistoria Paolo Graziosi
The Florentine Museum of Prehistory "Paolo Graziosi" is located in Florence, in the former convent of the Oblate Sisters in front of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova.
Sight 11: Palazzo Bastogi
Palazzo Bastogi, is located in Via Cavour in Florence.
Sight 12: Palazzo Panciatichi
The Palazzo Panciatichi is a Renaissance palace located on Via Camillo Cavour 2 in the quartiere of San Giovanni, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. A different Palazzo Panciatichi-Ximenes or Ximenes-da Sangallo is located at Borgo Pinti 68, corner of via Giusti, in Florence.
Sight 13: Palazzo Incontri
Palazzo Incontri, also known as Incontri Piccolellis, is a palace in Florence located on the corner of Via dei Servi 3-5 and Via dei Pucci 1, at an intersection where on the other sides overlook Palazzo Pucci, Palazzo Pasqui and the church of San Michelino Visdomini.
Sight 14: Casa Ghiberti
Casa Ghiberti is a building in Florence, located in Piazza del Duomo 6, at the corner of Via dei Servi 1r, 3r, 5r, 7r.
Sight 15: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Campo
The church of Santa Maria in Campo, "speciosa in campis" as you can read on the architrave, is a Catholic place of worship that stands on a side square of Via del Proconsolo that opens shortly after the beginning of the street a few steps from Piazza del Duomo in Florence. But although it is in a very central position, it does not belong to the Florentine diocese, but to that of Fiesole.
Sight 16: Santa Maria del Fiore
Get Ticket*Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence. Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and structurally completed by 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi; the basilica's exterior is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and features an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival (west) façade by Emilio De Fabris.
Sight 17: Giotto's Campanile
Get Ticket*Giotto's Campanile is a free-standing campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
Sight 18: Torre dei Ghiberti
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.
Sight 19: Studio Fiorentino
The Studio Fiorentino is located in Florence in the homonymous Via dello Studio at number 1.
Sight 20: Casa di Dante
The Museum of Dante's House is located in one of the oldest parts of the historic center of Florence, on Via Santa Margherita.
Sight 21: Badia Fiorentina
The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante. He would have heard the monks singing the Mass and the Offices here in Latin Gregorian chant, as he famously recounts in his Commedia: "Florence, within her ancient walls embraced, Whence nones and terce still ring to all the town, Abode aforetime, peaceful, temperate, chaste." In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.
Sight 22: Oratorio di San Niccolò del Ceppo
The Oratory of San Niccolò del Ceppo is a Roman Catholic prayer hall located on via de' Pandolfini in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 23: Casa Buonarroti
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.
Sight 24: Cappella de' Pazzi
The Pazzi Chapel is a chapel located in the "first cloister" on the southern flank of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Commonly credited to Filippo Brunelleschi, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture.
Sight 25: Basilica of the Holy Cross
The Basilica di Santa Croce is a minor basilica and the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 metres southeast of the Duomo, on what was once marshland beyond the city walls. Being the burial place of notable Italians, including those from the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli, as well as the poet Foscolo, political philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini, it is also known as the Temple of the Italian Glories.
Sight 26: Fontana di piazza Santa Croce
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.
Sight 27: Palazzo dell'Antella
Palazzo dell'Antella is a palace with a frescoed façade located on Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 28: Casa Vasari
The Casa Vasari is a building at 8 borgo Santa Croce in Florence, previously the residence in that city of the painter, art historian and architect Giorgio Vasari. It preserves a valuable cycle of frescoes in the hall, conceived and created by Vasari with the help of pupils.
Sight 29: Chiesa evangelica metodista
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.
Sight 30: Palazzo Fagni-Da Diacceto
Palazzo Fagni or Cattani-Da Diacceto is a fourteenth-century palace in Florence, located in Via de' Neri 33, next to the Loggia del Grano, overlooking Via del Castello d'Altafronte.
Sight 31: Loggia del Grano
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.
Sight 32: Palazzo dei Veliti
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.
Sight 33: Loggia dei Lanzi
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 34: Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus
The Pasquino Group is a group of marble sculptures that copy a Hellenistic bronze original, dating to ca. 200–150 BCE. At least fifteen Roman marble copies of this sculpture are known. Many of these marble copies have complex artistic and social histories that illustrate the degree to which improvisatory "restorations" were made to fragments of ancient Roman sculpture during the 16th and 17th centuries, in which contemporary Italian sculptors made original and often arbitrary and destructive additions in an effort to replace lost fragments of the ancient sculptures.
Sight 35: Hercules and the Centaur
Hercules and the centaur Nessus is a marble statue by the sculptor Giambologna, located in Florence in the Loggia dei Lanzi.
Sight 36: Statua equestre di Cosimo
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.
Sight 37: Palazzo Rinuccini
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.
Sight 38: 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.
Sight 39: Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte
Santo Stefano al Ponte is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church, located in the Piazza of the same name, just off the Via Por Santa Maria, near the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The church is presently used as a concert hall.
Sight 40: 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 41: Artichoke Fountain
The Artichoke Fountain is located in Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
Sight 42: Obelisco
The Boboli obelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century from Rome to Florence, where it was erected in the Boboli Gardens.
Sight 43: Giardino di Madama
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. Statues of various styles and periods, ancient and Renaissance, dot the garden. It also has large fountains and artificial caves, notably a grotto built by the artist, architect, and sculptor Bernardo Buontalenti between 1536 and 1608.
Sight 44: 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 45: 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 46: 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.
Sight 47: Colonna della Giustizia
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.
Sight 48: Basilica di Santa Trinita
Santa Trinita is a Roman Catholic church located in front of the piazza of the same name, traversed by Via de' Tornabuoni, in central Florence, Tuscany, Italy. It is the mother church of the Vallumbrosan Order of Monks, founded in 1092 by a Florentine nobleman. South on Via de' Tornabuoni is the Ponte Santa Trinita over the river Arno; across the street is the Palazzo Spini Feroni.
Sight 49: 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.
Sight 50: Chiesa di Maria Mater Misericordiae
The church of Maria Mater Misericordiae is a Catholic place of worship located in Via Villani in Florence. The former adjoining convent, now home to artisan workshops, is called the Conventino, with access from Via Giano della Bella. It shares this name with another complex not far away, the former convent of St. Francis de Sales in Piazza Tasso, seat of the Theological Faculty of Central Italy.
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