Destination Guide Refined by  Sightseeing + Tours from above to remove selectionAttraction Activities (1) Arts (4) Monuments + Museums (10)
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| Fiesole Fiesole, 50014 |  |
Visit the town of Fiesole, above Florence. This small town overlooks Florence and is an interesting place if you want to get away from the city for awhile. There are excellent views of the countryside and a fascinating m... 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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| Corridoio Vasariano - Vasari Corridor Piazzale degli Uffizi, Firenze, 50122 | |
The tour began in the Uffizi proper, with a survey of the highlights of the collection. I saw galleries about four years ago, when I toured the museum without benefit of guide. What I thought was familiar, however, becam... more
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| Vincigliata Via di Vincigliata, Florence, 50135 | |
Sir John Temple Leader, a young Whig, suddenly abandoned a promising career in Parliament for the Continent; after several years in Cannes he purchased Fiesole's Villa di Maiano and joined Tuscany's sizeable English expa... 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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| Cenacolo di Foligno Via Faenza, 42, Florence, 50123 | |
executed sometime in the 1470s, has been variously attributed to Perugino or to one of his followers. Its placement, at the end of a long room -- the former refectory for a group of nuns -- is simply breathtaking; becaus... more
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| Tempio Israelitico di Firenze Via Farini, 4, Florence, 50121 | |
This is a very interesting and unusual synagogue. It is the first synagogue built in Italy after the emancipation which occurred in the 19th century. The synagogue was built in 1892 on the money left by a wealthy merchan... 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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| Badia Fiorentina Via Dante Alighieri, Firenze, 50122 | |
Being from the Boston area, which is one of the oldest parts of the US, I tend to think of the 1600s as old. A pretty childish sentiment, according to those who have lived in parts of Europe as historical as Florence. Th... more
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| San Marco Piazza San Marco, 1, Florence, 50121 | |
Museo San Marco rain continuous rain the sky above the Duomo a leaded apron blocking light the Arno roiling pewter beneath the Ponte Vecchio unseasonable north winds prevailing across Appenine foothills, swirling the May... more
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