Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Florence, Italy
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11.9 km
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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: Piazza Torquato Tasso
Piazza Tasso is a city square in Oltrarno, Florence, Italy.
Sight 2: Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine
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.
Sight 3: Porta San Frediano
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.
Sight 4: Teatro di Cestello
The Teatro di Cestello is located in the square of the same name in Cestello, from which it takes its name, in the district of San Frediano, in the Oltrarno area, in the historic center, in Florence. It is the only room in the neighborhood with a regular schedule, as well as being a training center. It is considered one of the main Florentine theaters in operation.
Sight 5: Collezione Luigi Bellini
The Bellini Museum or Luigi Bellini Gallery is a private museum in Florence, located on Lungarno Soderini, in Oltrarno.
Sight 6: 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 7: Palazzo Medici Tornaquinci
Palazzo Medici-Tornaquinci, or changes of black, is a civil building in the historic center of Florence, located in via Tornabuoni 6, with a rear view in Piazza Strozzi 3 and via Monalda.
Sight 8: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli
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.
Sight 9: Fontana del Porcellino
Il Porcellino is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and removed to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of its rediscovery with the Calydonian Boar of Greek myth.
Sight 10: Palazzo Ricci-Altoviti
The Ricci-Altoviti Palace is a historic building in the historic center of Florence, located in Via de' Vecchietti 6, at the corner of Via del Campidoglio. It incorporates the ancient tower of the Agli, still visible on the left side.
Sight 11: Palazzo Beccanugi
Palazzo Beccanugi is located in Piazza Antinori 1 in Florence.
Sight 12: Museo Marino Marini (Chiesa di San Pancrazio)
Marino Marini (1901–1980) was one of the most important Italian artists of the twentieth century, especially as a sculptor. He was born in Pistoia, but he studied art in Florence, before moving to Monza as a teacher and finally arriving at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. The museum houses the second-largest collection of his works, after collection dedicated to him in his hometown.
Sight 13: Casa-galleria Vichi
The Vichi house-gallery is an Art Nouveau building in Florence, located in Via Borgo Ognissanti, a few steps from the church of Ognissanti.
Sight 14: Ognissanti
The chiesa di San Salvatore di Ognissanti, or more simply chiesa di Ognissanti, is a Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown.
Sight 15: Chiesa di Santa Lucia sul Prato
The church of Santa Lucia sul Prato is a Catholic place of worship located on Via di Santa Lucia in the historic center of Florence.
Sight 16: Perfume Workshop-Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella
The Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella is a perfumery and herbalist shop in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It is not a pharmacy and does not sell medicines, but is sometimes described as "the oldest pharmacy in the world".
Wikipedia: Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella (EN)
Sight 17: Palazzo Da Magnale
Palazzo Da Magnale is located in Florence in Via del Sole 11, at the corner of Piazza Santa Maria Novella.
Sight 18: Palazzo Farinola
Palazzo Farinola is located in Florence in Via del Sole 9, at the corner of Via del Moro.
Sight 19: Palazzo Adorni Braccesi
Palazzo Adorni-Braccesi is located in Florence in Via de' Rondinelli 1, separated from the narrow Via del Trebbio by Palazzo Antinori.
Sight 20: Palazzo Portigiani
Palazzo Portigiani, or Da Cepparello Pasquali, is located in Via de' Rondinelli 4 in Florence.
Sight 21: Auditorium al Duomo
The Auditorium al Duomo is a theater in Florence, Italy. The main entrance is in Via de' Cerretani, the rear one in Via dell'Alloro, inside a hotel.
Sight 22: Basilica di Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church.
Sight 23: Medici Chapel
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The Medici Chapels are two chapels built between the 16th and 17th centuries as an extension to the Basilica of San Lorenzo, in the Italian city of Florence. They are the Sagrestia Nuova, designed by Michelangelo, and the larger Cappella dei Principi, a collaboration between the Medici family and architects. The purpose of the chapels was to celebrate the Medici family, patrons of the church and Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
Sight 24: Basilica di San Lorenzo
The Basilica di San Lorenzo is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence, having been consecrated in 393 AD, at which time it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral, before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata.
Sight 25: Florence Baptistery of St. John
The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building in Florence, Italy. Dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist, it has been a focus of religious, civic, and artistic life since its completion. The octagonal baptistery stands in both the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza San Giovanni, between Florence Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace.
Sight 26: Giotto's Campanile
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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 27: Torre dei Visdomini
The Visdomini Tower is a civil building in the historic center of Florence, located between Via delle Oche 14r-16r-18r-20r and Via della Canonica 1.
Sight 28: Torre dei Pierozzi
The Pierozzi Tower is a civil building in the historic center of Florence, located in Via dello Studio 25r, at the corner of Via della Canonica 2, a few steps from Piazza del Duomo.
Sight 29: 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 30: Palazzetto del Bianco
The Del Bianco building is located in Via dei Servi 3 in Florence.
Sight 31: Palazzo Neroni
Palazzo Neroni is a historic building in the centre of Florence, located at via de' Ginori 7, with a rear entrance also at via della Stufa 4r-6r.
Sight 32: 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 33: 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 34: Palazzo Bastogi
Palazzo Bastogi, is located in Via Cavour in Florence.
Sight 35: 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 36: 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 37: 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 38: 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 39: 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 40: Palazzo di San Clemente
Palazzo di San Clemente is a residential palace in Florence, Italy.
Sight 41: 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 42: 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 43: Palazzo Caccini
Palazzo Caccini is located in Florence at Borgo Pinti 31–33, on the corner of Via Nuova dei Caccini.
Sight 44: Jewish Museum of Florence
The Jewish Museum of Florence is a museum of Jewish history located in the Great Synagogue of Florence, Italy. The museum, which covers two spaces of the building, gathers an important collection of ancient objects of Jewish ceremonial art, evidence of the high artistic level achieved by the Jewish-Italian communities in the field of applied arts. Exhibitions illustrate the history of Florentine Jews from the first settlements to the post-war reconstruction, featuring old photographs, films and a large number of objects of daily and commemorative use.
Sight 45: 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 46: 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 47: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia
The Santa Lucia family house in Borgo Pinti in Florence is a charitable institute.
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