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| Museo Stibbert Via F. Stibbert, 26, Florence, 50134 |  |
Half Scotsman, half Italian, Frederick Stibbert was nothing if not eccentric. A sometime artist, intrepid traveler, voracious accumulator, and even hero in Garibaldi's army, he inherited a vast fortune and this villa fro... more
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| Museo Zoologico La Specola Via Romana, 17, Florence, 50125 | |
Italy has very few zoos, but this is the largest zoological collection, rooms full of insects, crustaceans, and stuffed birds and mammals -- everything from ostriches and apes to a rhinoceros. The museum was founded here... more
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| Musica dei Popoli Festival 24b, via Michele Mercati, Auditorium FLOG, Florence, 50134 | |
This popular annual music festival, hosted by the Florentine Center for Folk Traditions, searches the world over for an array of eclectic musical styles, from Klezmer groups...
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| Ognissanti Piazza Ognissanti, Florence, 50123 | |
The young man with black hair to the Madonna's right is said to be Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), whose letters about exploring the New World in 1499 and again from 1501 to 1502 would become so popular that a cartographer... more
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| Olmo Localita Olmo, Florence, 50100 | |
Olmo is outside Florence, but not too far from the city. The green parkland is located in the northern hills near the Vetta le Croci (518m). It is perfect for outdoor pursuits and relaxing walks. Florentines tend to freq... more
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| Opera Festival Teatro Verdi, Via Ghibellina, 99, Florence, 50122 | |
The Medici family called in Niccolò Pericoli, known as Tribolo, to design them; this artist had already given ample proof of his talent with his designs for the gardens of the Medici Villas of Castello and Petraia. Tribo... more
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| Orsanmichele Via Calzaiuoli, 15, Florence, 50122 | |
Compared to other religious buildings from the same period, this fourteenth-century church is somewhat unusual in design. Rectangular in shape, with two naves, it does look more like a grain store, which was in fact how ... more
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| Orto Botanico Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 3, Florence, 50121 | |
The botanical garden whose traditional name is the "Giardino dei Semplici" has much earlier origins and a more varied history. Cosimo I de' Medici himself promoted the formation of a university botanic garden, ... more
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| Palazzo Antinori Piazza degli Antinori, 3, Florence, 50122 | |
Un panorama di 500 anni visti dalle finestre di Palazzo Antinori, simbolo della continuità di un antico casato e di una solida tradizione di famiglia diventate una moderna realtà. Gli Antinori sono inizialmente... more
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| Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni Piazza Santa Trinita, 1, Florence, 50125 | |
This 16th Century palazzo is one of the first examples of ‘Roman style’ architecture which was brought to Florence. The prevalent Florentine style involved facades with rustication and plasterwork brought in by architect... more
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