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Museo Marino Marini Piazza San Pancrazio, Florence, 50123 |
I found the freedom to be beneficial while observing this ambiguous exhibit. It allowed me to take the time and walk slowly around every sculpture and try to interpret it for myself. After the initial shock about the fre... more
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Palazzo Vecchio Piazza della Signoria, Firenze, 50122 |
Palazzo Vecchio, as it appears today, is the result of at least three successive building stages between the 13th-16th centuries: the last reconstruction was carried out by Vasari, after the coming to power of Cosimo I d... more
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Museo Horne Via de' Benci, 6, Florence, 50122 |
This building had belonged to the Alberti and later to the Corsi family who gave it its present day appearance at the end of the 15th century, when it was probably restructured by Simone del Pollaiuolo, known as Il Crona... 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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Museo di Palazzo Davanzati Via Porta Rossa, 13, Florence, 50123 |
The furniture, paintings, tapestries and household objects are the furnishings of the house of a noble Florentine family from the 14th to 17th centuries. Also notable the numerous paintings with profane and religious sub... more
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Museo di Storia della Scienza Piazza dei Giudici, 1, Florence, 50112 |
In the field of astronomy, the museum has the lens with which Galileo discovered four of the moons of Jupiter (which he promptly and prudently named after his Medici patrons) and, alongside telescopes of all sizes and co... more
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Museo degli Argenti Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze, 50125 |
Originally designed to be the Summer apartment of the Grand Duke, this gallery houses a highly prestigious collection of gold, enamels, cameos, crystals and stone workings which were originally collected by the Medici an... more
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Museo delle Porcellane Piazza Pitti 1, Casino del Cavaliere, Firenze, 50125 |
Foreign objects include fine table sets from Vienna and from the German Manufactory of Meissen, in addition to French porcelain from Vincennes and Sèvres, brought to the Pitti Palace by the Savoy House from the ro... more
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Fondazione Romano Piazza Santo Spirito 29, Florence, 50125 |
The sculptures donated to the city of Florence by the collector and antique dealer Salvatore Romano in 1946 are arranged in this vast room. It is a small but well chosen collection of works that begins with Pre-Romanesqu... more
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Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia Piazza Santa Maria Novella 14a, at the Leopoldine, Florence, 50123 |
The journey begins in 1839, the year of the earliest daguerrotypes, and finishes with the digital imagery of our own day. A fascinating journey that traverses the era of the pioneers, the revelation of the mechanically r... more
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