Classicism of the medievo

The capital of the region of the Tuscan one, in the banks of the river Arno between the drops hills covered with olive trees and vineyards is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Here they passed the one on the way to Santiago, the Road Francígena and the Road of Ambra. Their cultural magnificent legacy has marked all the places of the region. Their historical center of 11,27 square kilometers houses 10 percent of the patrimony world, exceptional artistic art treasures that attest its secular civilization. Florence is the cradle of the Rebirth, the native city of the big history characters, of the world of the art and science like Medici, Miguel angel, Leonardo gives Vinci, Maquiavelo, Galilean to mention alone to the most famous. Any intent of composing a short list of indispensable places of visiting in Florence would raise protests. Often the travelers are wrapped in a denominated feeling Stendhalismo - for the French writer that was so affected by the beauty of the Basilica Santa Croce that you grieve gave it could walk. To enjoy fully and to know the city a stay it is recommended of at least five days.

• Casa Buonarroti

• In spite of having this house Miguel Angel it never lived in her. After their puerte it inherited it their nephew that had the idea of gathering in her their uncle's works and the other ones that it possessed the family. They highlight Miguel's early works Angel, as 'The Virgin of the stairway', 'The Battle of the Crucifixes', and 'Crucifix.'

• Address: Via Ghibellina
• Phone: 24-17-52
• Galleria di Arte Moderna

• It has 30 open rooms, with works of the XIX century and principles of the XX one, showing a group that goes from the neoclassicism of Canova to the romantic academic period Hayez and Dupré, also including a good representation of the impressionists, with several hundreds of artists' oils, as G. Fattori, San It Bequeaths, T. Signorini and F. Zancomeneghi.

• Address: Piazza Pitti
• Phone: 28-70-96
• Galleria dell'Accademia

• Here they are, among other works, Miguel's beautiful sizes Angel, among those that highlight the inigualable 'David', sculpted among the years 1501-1504 and the sculptures of 'The Unfinished Slaves', one of the celebrated artist's more enigmatic works. Miguel-Angel works can also be seen, as 'San Mateo' and 'Pity of Palestrina.' There are rooms with Florentine painting from the XIII-XIV centuries until principles of the XVII one and paintings of Accademia of the XIX century.

• Address: Via Ricasoli
• Phone: 21-07-41
• Galleria degli Uffizi

• Big works and architectural of Vasari 1560 - 1580 because the palace, and the square forms a very balanced group. The two plants of the building rise on a piazza that surrounds the narrow square for three of their sides. The building was built to house the offices of the administration of the Florentine state and of there its name uffizi comes - offices. Nowadays Galleria degli houses Uffizi, one of the most famous museums in the world.

  The Corridor Vasariano unites the building with Palace Piti crossing the river Arno for the you Put on Vecchio. Here famous Collezione degli autroretratti is exhibited, of Italian painters and foreigners from the XVI century until our days. The corridor together with the wing west of the palace suffered serious damages because of an attack in 1993.

  In the first plant it is the famous one 'Gabinetto dei disegni and delle stampe' that shows drawings and engravings. In the corridors and galleries are shown old sculptures and upholster. The second plant is reserved to the painting. The list of the painters and works teachers are very long. Of primitive Tuscan of the XIII and XIV centuries they deserve attention works of Cimbaue, Giotto and I gave Buoninsegna; Among Tuscan of the first Rebirth Paolo highlights Uccello with 'it Battles of San Roman' and Piero della Francesca with the portrait 'Federico gives Montefeltro.' They are also ' Birth of Venus', 'Spring' of Boticceli, 'Adoration of the Magicians' of Leonardo it gives Vinci, 'Virgin of the goldfinch' and 'León X' of Rafael, and many Miguel's angel works, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronés, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Van Dyck, Dürer etc.

• Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi
• Phone: 29-34-93
• Galleria del Costume

• One of the Florentine most recent public museums formed in 1983. It seeks to show the importance that had and it has the fashion in Italy in the last two centuries. The museum is proud of good exquisite pleasure with which the suits have been placed, the original atmosphere with antiques, decoration objects, mirrors, lamps, prints, tapestries and carpets. Also, the Gallery of the Suit of Time presents every two years a new selection of suits and its acquisitions and donations that allow exhibitions monográficas.

• Address: Palazzina della Meridiana - Giardino di Boboli
• Phone: 055-21-25-57
• Galleria Pitti o Palatina

• It gathers, in their splendid rooms with colored roofs to the cool air for, among other, Piero gives Cortona 1647, Italian painters' works of art and foreigners of the XVI and XVII centuries, among those that it is necessary to highlight the 'I Concert' and 'The Beautiful one' of Titian, together with the 'Woman of the Veil', the 'Virgin of Granduca' and the 'Virgin of the seat', of Rafael. From the called room of the Niches it spends to luxurious Appartamenti monumentali, originariamente residence of Medicis and Lorena and later on rooms of elegance of Saboya.

• Address: Piazza Pitti
• Galleria Spedale Innocenti

• It is located in the second plant of Spedale degli Innocenti, of Brunelleschi, one of the buildings that better sample the Florentine Rebirth. It exhibits paintings, sculptures, codexes miniados and furniture coming from the XIV centuries to the XVIII one, among those that it highlights a 'Epiphany' of Ghirlandaio.

• Address: Piazza SS Annunziata 12
• Phone: 055-249-171
• Fax: 055-241-663
• Museo Firenze Com`era

• To know Florence of other times.

• Address: Via dell`Oriuolo 24
• Phone: 239-84-83
• Museo Archeologico

• One of the archaeological best museums in Italy, especially as for the civilization etrusca. In him the celebrated vessel François is conserved, of archaic ceramic ática toward the 570 to.C., the 'Mater Matuta' and other archaic, Greek-Roman sculptures and áticas of the centuries VI and V to.C. It also houses to the Museum Egizio that has sculptures, sarcophaguses, mummies, trails, goldwork and papyruses of until the third millennium to. C., to etrusco-Greek-Roman Antiquarium, with brasses, as the 'Arengador' created in the century II to. C. and a 'Chimera' coming from the century V, besides Numismatic Gabinetto and Collezione gave Preziosi.

• Address: Via della Colonna
• Phone: 247-86-41
• Museo Bardini

• It exposes, distributed in 20 rooms, great number of sculptures that includes the sculptural group of called marble 'The Charity', work of Tact gave Camaino, wooden sizes and stucco statues and terracotta of the Florentine schools and sienesa, besides paintings, Renaissance furniture, you carpet and tapestries.

• Address: Piazza di Mozzi
• Phone: 234-24-27
• Museo Davanzati o Museo della Casa Fiorentina Antica

• It marries elegant of the XIV century with the ground floor of seat stone, gallery of the XVI one and patio with perron. It is headquarters of the Museum della Fiorentina it Marries Antic, dedicated to old furniture, upholster, fittings and use objects XVI-XVIII centuries.

• Address: Via Porta Rossa
• Phone: 21-65-18
• Museo di Storia della Scienza

• It keeps scientific reasonable instruments in their majority of the old collections of Medici and memories of Galilean.

• Address: Piazza dei Giudici
• Phone: 29-34-93
• Museo della Fondazione Horne

• Museum located in the homonymous estate of the XV century, with paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture and antiques, among those that it highlights a portrait of half body of Giotto and a 'Pity' of Filippo Lippi.

• Address: Via dei Benci
• Phone: 055-244-661
• Museo della Opera di Santa Croce

• This is the Franciscan biggest church in the world. It was built in the XIII century on another smaller one. The museum is installed in the refectory and sample works as the 'Crucifixion' of Cimabue, the 'I Triumph of the Death' of Orcagna and the 'San Ludovico' of Donatello. The visit includes the Chapel of Pazzi, of Filippo Brunelleschi 1443.

• Address: Piazza Santa Croce
• Phone: 055-234-22-89
• Museo della Opera del Duomo

• Famous to house to the 'Pity' of Miguel Angel previously placed in Duomo, and for the works of sculptors Florentine XIV and XV centuries, as Arnolfo I gave Change, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Nanni gave Bartolo, Andrea Pisano and Tact Camaino, besides an altar frontal in silver and enamel, of Verrocchio and other artists. After their restoration, the museum will also have the door this of the Font, of L. Ghiberti.

• Address: Piazza Duomo
• Phone: 230-28-85
• Museo di San Marco o dell`Angelico

• Located in the dependences of the convent dominico largely reconstructed by Michelozzo. Their biggest attractiveness represents the exhaustive collection of the Angelic (the Universal" "Trial, "A Descendimiento", "The Crucifixion" and two announcements) Devout person's better works, orderly in different stays, as the laundry and the big refectory, the hospice of pilgrims, the room to surrender and the cells of the friars. In one of the refectories one can see the great cool air of Ghirlandaio, "Last Dinner."

• Address: Piazza San Marco
• Phone: 21-07-41
• Museo di Santa Maria Novella
• Address: Piazza Santa Maria Novella
• Phone: 28-21-87
• Museo di Zoologia La Specola

• It shows a great collection of anatomical sections conserved in wax and prepared in 600 cabinets.

• Address: Via Romana
• Phone: 22-24-51
• Museo degli Argenti

• One of the richest collections possesses constituted by pieces carried out in beautiful metals, precious stones, glasses, marfíl, etc.; they highlight the plates of golden silver of Augsburgo XVI and XVII centuries the vases of precious stones of Lorenzo the Magnificent one and some pieces of Chinese and Japanese porcelain. In the Meridian pavilion neoclassical call they are provisionally installed Collezione Contini - Bonacossi visits with previous warning. Prepared in 11 rooms, it is composed by sculptures, furniture, art objects and a great number of paintings, with works teachers of Duccio gave Buoninsegna, Sassetta, Andrea of Castagno, Veronés, G. Bellini, I. Bassano, Velázquez and Goya.

• Address: Piazza Pitti
• Phone: 21-25-57
• Museo Nazionale del Bargello

• This museum is of maximum interest for the knowledge of the Tuscan sculpture carried out among the XIV and XVII centuries, as well as for its smaller collections of works of arts. From the patio porticado you consents to the interior for an external monumental stairway. It exposes you work of Miguel Angel Bust of Bruto and Apollo or David, I. Sansovino, B. Cellini, Ammannati, Giambologna, Donatello San Jorge, 1416 and David of brass, of 1430, Bruneleschi and Ghiberti two formelle, 1402, Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Desiderio gives Settignano, G. L. Bernini, Verrocchio, Pollaiolo Hercules and Anteo and Laurana. It also has works of goldwork small brass pieces, glasses, cloths and armors.

• Address: Via del Proconsolo
• Phone: 21-08-01
• Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari

• This museum occupies the palazzo Rucellai, one of the works teachers of principles of the Rebirth, carried out by B. Rossellino on plan of L. B. Alberti 1451.

• Address: Via della Vigna Nuova
• Phone: 21-33-70
• Museo Marino Marini

• This sculptor's two hundred works are in the old church of San Pancrazio.

• Address: Piazza S. Pancrazio
• Phone: 21-94-32
• Opificio delle Pietre Dure

• It houses heterogeneous collections and an imprtante book of samples litológico.

• Address: Via degli Alfani
• Phone: 29-40-62
• Palazzo Vecchio o della Signoria

• It is about the civil most important building in Florence; it was the government's of the Florentine republic headquarters until the XVI century, of the Camera of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy from the year 1865 up to 1872 and from 1872, headquarters of the City council. It is one of the medieval most significant public palaces in Italy, erected among the years 1299 and 1314 according to the tradition for Arnolfo I gave Change in Gothic style. It highlights for their uprightness accentuated by the 94 meters of the famous one D'Arnolfo it Toasts. It has three high floors of seat of pietra forte and a balconada battlemented salediza in which the tower arises. From the suggestive patio porticado, renovated in a style of the first Rebirth by Michelozzo 1470 and decoration in 1565, you ascends to the upper floors, reorganized by Vasari in the late Rebirth in numerous rooms as the Living room dei Cinquecento, in which is the 'Victoria' of Miguel Angel, Studio of Francesco I of style mineralista of the XVI century, Tesoreto decorated by Vasari, the Room dei Dugento, works of 1447, of the one that the roof is conserved painted by Benedetto it gives Maiano, the Room dei Gigli with having coffered traceado of Giuliano it gives Maiano and the Room of the Chancellery in which Maquiavelo worked and in the one that the statue of the is located 'Boy with dolphin' of Verrocchio.

• Address: Piazza della Signoria
• Phone: 29-40-62
• Museo Stibbert

• In 60 rooms it has important exposed collections of objects to recreate atmospheres of last times, furniture, tapestries, porcelains, suits and old weapons. It deserves special mention the cavalcade of the XVI century, formed by 14 gentlemen and infants.

• Address: Via Stibbert
• Phone: 055/486049
• Museo Nazionale di Antropologia e Etnologia

• Located in Palace Nonfinito, begun with Buontalenti in 1593, the Museum Nazionale of Antopología and Ethnology possesses a remarkable documentacíon in the entire world on the uses and customs, besides important you collect etnológicas.

• Address: Via di Proconsolo
• Musei Botanici e di Geologia e Mineralogia

• They are counted among those bigger than Italy, with herbalists, a xiloteca with more than 6000 wooden types, fossils of plants and animals, rocks and reasonable minerals from all over the world; it has annex the Rise Botanical Botanical Garden.

• Address: Via Lamarmora
• Phone: 21-59-30
• Cappelle Medicee
• Address: Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini
• Raccolta
• Address: Piazza della Signoria
• Museo di Santa Maria del Fiore
• Address: Piazza Duomo

• Santa Maria del Fiore - Duomo

• This building, with plant of Latin cross, it is crowned by a dome to double vault of Brunelleschi that was concluded in 1461 and it measures 91 meters high and 45.5 diameter meters and it is decorated with cool airs that represent the 'Final Trial' of Vasari and Zuccari in the years 1572-1579. To part of contemplating the marvels that are in the interior and the exterior, the building has magnificent works as the Door of Campanille and the Door of Canonici, two in the XIV century and it Carries it della Mandiria, with the relief of Asunción of Nani I gave Bank of the year 1421 and the mosaic of the Announcement of Ghirlandaio 1491. The church is divided in three ships separated by big pillars that maintain the towering arcades and the vaults ogival nervadas. In her works like the divine windows of colors of Lorenzo Ghiberti can be admired, the 'it Knocks down of the Bishop D'Orso' of Tact I gave Camaino, a cool air to Andrea's light and shade Castagno 1456, the Equestrian Statue of Nicoló gives Tolentino and a cool air to the light and shade of Paolo Unccello. Under the dome three balconadas appears, one of them highlights for the remarkable windows of geniuses like Donatello, Ghilberti and Paolo Uccello. Works of Benedetto can also be admired it gives Maiano, Paolo Unccello and L. Della Robbia, among other. However, maybe that that more it impresses it is since their size it is the fourth bigger church of the world.

• Address: Piazza del Duomo
• Phone: 29-45-14
• Il Battistero

• It dates, according to some, of the century IV-VI, and according to others of the XI-XII century. It has pyramidal roof and you consents to their interior through the famous brass doors that represent scenes of Christ's life, of Saint John the Baptist and, the most important carried out by Ghiberti, with scenes of the Old Testament. Their interior has walls decorated with columns and semicolumnas, being happened alternatingly. The Baptismal Pile is made of marble and it belongs to the school of Pisa, 1371. The tomb of the is to the right of the entrance 'anti-potato' XXIII Juan, work of Michelozzo and Donatello of the year 1427. The dome appears recovered of mosaics of Byzantine inspiration and it is Venetian and Florentine artists' work as Cimabue. In the head they highlight the mosaics of the Teacher's same style Lacopo.

• Address: Piazza del Duomo
• Campanile di Giotto

• Schedules: open working in summer from 9.00 to 18.50 h. Winter from 9.00 to 16.20 h. Domingo and festival in summer from 9.00 to 18.50 h. Winter of 9.00 16.20 h.

  Steeple of 84,70 m of height, is a slender tower of square plant, teacher of the Gothic architecture works interpreted with Latin spirit. Begun with Giotto in the year 1334, the work was continued by Andrea Pisano and ended up in 1359 by Francesco Talenti. The inferior part is adorned with bajorelieves of Andrea's XIV century Pisano, ended up by Andrea della Robbia: the originals have been substituted by copies and transferred to the Museum dell'Opera of Duomo. A stairway of 414 steps takes to the terrace, from which one can admire a panoramic view of the main monuments of the city.

• Address: Piazza Duomo
• Santa Croce

• Franciscan church, one of the works teachers of the Florentine Gothic, it was raised in the year 1294 according to a project attributed to Arnolfo. The facade and the steeple are of the XIX century. In the interior, throughout the walls they are the tombs or monuments of Miguel angel, Maquiavelo, Galilean, Alfieri, Rossini and Foscolo as well as several badges that remember to other illustrious Italians. Among the works of art they highlight the pulpit of Benedetto it gives Maiano, the relief of the Announcement of Donatello. They also highlight the chapels: Baroncelli, Rinuccini, chapel of Medicis work of Michelozzo, and also chapels Bardi and Peruzzi teacher of Brunelleschi works.

• Address: Piazza di Santa Croce
• Phone: 24-46-19
• San Michele in Orto

• Open every day from 9.00 at 12.00 and from 16.00 at 18.00. Closed the first and last Monday of every month.

  Gothic old building of Orsanmichele, built in the year 1337 as rasher of the wheat and transformed 1380 later on in the church of San Michele in Rise. In the external niches they are the statues of patron saints of the arts and occupations that document the evoluciónde the Florentine sculpture among the XIV and XVI centuries. Inside two ships it is the cébre tabernacle of A. Orcagna, of marble and mosaic, with a Virgin of B. Daddi.

   

• Address: Via di Calzaiuoli
• Phone: 284715
• Badia

• Schedules: open from 7.45 to 12.00 h. And from 15.00 to 18.30 h

  Benedictine church, enlarged in the XIII century and altered in the XVII one that has one elaborated cover of B. it gives Rovezzano 1495 and a slender campanile completed exagonal in peak, of the XIV century. In the Baroque interior, it is worthwhile to see the altarpiece of Filippino Lippi and sculptures of I Mine it gives Feésole; small Chiostro degli Arnaci cloister of the orange trees is of Rossellino.

• Address: Via del Proconsolo
• Phone: 28-73-89
• Santa Trinitá

• Schedules: open from 8.30 to 12.30 h and from 16.00 to 18.00 h. Festival closed days.

  Igglesia built in the XI century and remodeled in Gothic style in the XIV one; the facade is of B. Buontalenti 1594. The interior has the artist's vaults and square head. In one of the chapels they are fresh carried out in the year 1425 and Lorenzo's altarpiece Monaco, teacher of Angelic Fra. In the sacristy it is the tomb of Onofrio Strozzi, work of Piero gave Niccolo Lamberti 1421, one of the first ones of the Rebirth. The chapel Sassetti, is celebrated for the cool airs of Ghirlandaio 1486 that describe the life of San Francisco of Asisi. It is also famous the tomb Federighi carried out by L. Della Robbia 1456.

• Address: Piazza della Santa Tinitá
• Phone: 296-91-20
• Santa Maria Novella

• Gothic church 1246 - 1260 with marble facade begun in the XIV century and concluded by L. B. Carried Alberti and part superior, 1456-1470. The interior is of three ships with pillars polístilos that sustain the ogival vaults; among the many works of art that it contains the tablet of Fra'Dati it is counted, of Ghiberti 1425, and the statue of the 'Virgin with the Boy' of Boy Pisano chapel Ruchellai, right arm of the cruise; the cool airs of Filippo Lippi 1502; the celebrated cycle of fresh of Ghirlandaio histories of Maria and of the Baptist, 1490; a 'wooden Crucifixion of Brunelleschi; the cool airs of Nard gave Cione 1357 in the capella Srozzi; the 'Crucifixion' it has more than enough chart, of the first time of Giotto sacristy; and the cool air of Masaccio that represents to the 'Trinidad', 'Maria and San Juan.' The chiostri gave Santa Maria Novella they represent a compound combined notable of cloisters for the chostro Green century XIVque it takes their name of the cool airs of green earth, it works of painters of XV century, Cappellone degli Spagnoli, old room to surrender with Andrea's cool airs gives Firenze 1355 and the small cloister called dei Morti.

• Address: Piazza Santa Maria Novella
• Phone: 21-02-13
• San Lorenzo

• Schedules: open every day from 7.00 at 12.00 and from 15.30 at 18.30.

  Church of principles of the Florentine Rebirth, it was built by Brunelleschi 1446 and finished by A. Manetti 1460; the facade is made of rustic stone. The harmonious interior, of three ships, has the columns and molds in serene pietra and the covered with casetones; to the bottom of the central ship there are two brass pulpits, the well-known last work of Donatello and its assistants 1460. Donatello was buried in the castrates it cecorado with the 'Announcement' of Filippo Lippi. Sagrestia Vecchia, designed by Brunelleschi 1429 and decorated by Donatello and their assistants 1443, it is the best expression in the style of Brunelleschi, based on forms perfect geoméricas. The sarcophagus that it keeps the remains of Giovanni and Piero of Médicis is a work teacher of Verrocchio 1472

• Address: Piazza San Lorenzo
• Phone: 21-66-34
• Capella dei Principi e Sacrestia Nuova

• Schedules: open of Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 at 13.50. It also opens up on alternating Tuesdays.

  Baroque building of plant octogonal finished off by a dome and recovered in their interior of marbles, together with other XVII material siflo; this chapel was you plan for Giovanni of Médicis and it keeps the sarcophaguses of the big dukes of Tuscan.

  You arrives until Sagrestia Nuova funeral chapel of Médici, first architectural work of Miguel angel 1524. In her Sepolcri is Medicei, the tombs of Médici sculpted by Miguel angel; that of Lorenzo whose statue is called popularly 'Il Pensieroso' the thinker, together with the works 'The Dawn and the Twilight', and that of Giuliano, 'The Day and the Night.' In front of them there is a 'Virgin with the Boy' and, in contiguous stays, Miguel's angel drawings.

• Address: Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini
• Phone: 21-32-06
• Chiesa di San Marco

• Schedules: open from 8.00 to 12.30 h.cy from 15.00 to 18.30 h

  Church of the XIV reconstructed century and altered in diverse occasions until the XVII century it is remarkable a Crucifixion of the school of Giotto;

  Contiguous San Marco's museum or Dell'Angelico is to the church.

• Address: Piazza San Marco, Via Cavour
• Phone: 29-69-50
• Chiostro del Scalzo

• Schedules: open on Mondays from 9.00 to 13.00 h

  Cloister of principles of the XVI decoration with fresh to the light and shade of Andrea of Sarto 'Historys of Baptist', 1526.

• Address: Via Cavour 26
• Santíssima Annunziata

• Schedules: open every day from 7.30 at 12.30 and from 16.00 at 18.30.

  Sanctuary reconstructed by Michelozzo in the XV century and altered later on. The lunetos that there is under the piazza is decorated, beginning from the right of the door, by Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Franciabigio, Andrea of Srto, A. Baldovinetti, C. Rosselli and another time Andrea of Sarto. The Baroque splendid interior conserves a tamplete of Michelozzo 1461.

• Address: Piazza della Santissima Annunziata
• Phone: 239-80-34
• San Salvatore al Monte

• Schedules: open from 9.30 to 11.30 h and from 15.00 to 18.30 h.

  Church in Renaissance sober ways, work of Cronaca 1499. It is located in the hill, very near Piazzale Michelangelo. The visit can be a pleasant walk that it offers wonderful views of Florence.

• Address: Via del Monte alle Croci
• Phone: 239-28-22
• San Miniato al Monte

• Schedules: open from 7.30 to 12.00 h. and from 14.00 to 19.00 h.

  This church is in the highest point in the mount, it works mestra of the Florentine románico, erected among the XI and XIII centuries. The Chapel of the Crucifixion, work of Michelozzi is in the interior and in the crypt they are the cool airs of Taddeo Gaddi XV century. The marble panels and the pulpit of marble of the apse are of the year 1297. The Renaissance chapel of the cardinal from Portugal shows the tomb made by Antonio Rosselilino and the roof decorated by Luca della Robbia. It is also possible to walk through the cemetery.

• Address: Via del Monte alle Croci
• Phone: 234-53-54
• Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine

• Schedules: open working from 10.00 to 17.00 and Sundays and festival from 13.00 at 17.00. Closed on Tuesdays.

  Church with the interior reconstructed after the fire happened in 1771. It is famous for the capella Brancacci century XIV decoration with a cycle of cool airs begun with Masolino1425, continued by Masaccio 1427 and finished by Filippino Lippi 1485. The cool airs of Masaccio are work teacher that it made headway to the painting.

   

• Address: Plazza del Carmine
• Phone: 21-23-31
• Chiesa di Santo Spirito

• Schedules: open every day from 8.00 at 12.00 and from 16.00 at 18.00. Closed on Wednesday afternoons.

  Church carried out by Brunelleschi 1444-1487 with external simple lines is one of the Renaissance purest creations. The steeple is of Baccio d'Agnolo. In the altars of the chapels there are numerous altarpieces that date for example of the XV and XVI centuries 'Virgin with the Boy' of Filippo Lippi.

• Address: Piazza Santo Spirito
• Phone: 21-00-30
• Cenacolo di Santo Spirito

• Schedules: open working from 9.00 to 14.00 h. Domingo and festival from 8.00 to 13.00 h. Closed Monday.

  In the refectory one can see a colored wall to the cool air, maybe for Andrea Orcagna, with the 'Crucifixion' and fragments of the 'last Dinner' of the year 1360.

• Address: Piazza di Santo Spirito 29
• Phone: 28-70-43
• Capella dei Magi

• Schedules: open working from 9.00 to 13.00 h.

  Built as part of the palace of Medici, and according to the architect's project Michelozzo gave Bartolomeo. The chapel is famous for the cycle of paintings murals of Benozzo Gozzoli, 'Angeles in adoration' and 'it Travels of the Magicians.'

• Address: Via Cavour 1
• Cenacolo di Santa Apollonia

• Tel.28-70-74

  Schedules: open working from 9.00 to 14.00 h. Domingo and festival from 9.00 to 14.00 h. Open exclusively the second and quarter Sunday of every month. Closed Monday.

  Refectory of a monastery camaldulense, decoration with fresh of Andrea of Castagno is famous 'The Last Dinner', toward 1450, separate and expestuos with the drawings to the raddle.

• Address: Via XXVII Aprile 1
• Certosa del Galluzzo

• loc. Galluzzo.

  Tel 204-92-26

  Schedules: open working in summer from 9.00 to 12.00 h. and from 15.00 to 18.00 h. Winter from 9.00 to 12.00 h. and from 15.00 to 17.00 h. Domingo and festival from 9.00 to 12.00 h. and from 15.00 to 18.00 h. Closed Monday.

• Crrocifissione del Pellegrino

• Schedules: open working and festival from 9.00 to 12.00 h. and from 17.00 to 19.00 h.

• Address: Borgo Pinti 58.
• Cupola del Duomo
• Address: Piazza Duomo
• Cappelle Medicee

• Schedule of visit: from 9.00 to 14.00 h. It closes on Mondays.

  Here they are buried and sculpted by Miguel angel the members of the family Medici, Julián, duke of Nemours and Lorenzo, duke of Urbino. To the first one, the brilliant artist represented it as a philosopher and a second as a military one: thought and action.

• Address: Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini
• Phone: 238-88-02
• Sinagoga di Firenze
• Address: Via Fanini
• Phone: 245252
• San Giovanni Battista
• Address: Chiesa dell'Autostrada del Sole
• Phone: 4219016
• Chiesa Ortodossa Russa
• Address: Via Leone X
• Phone: 490148

• Fortezza da Basso

• Via Valfonda

  An imposing brick strength, of pentagonal plant, work of A. it gives Sangallo the Youth (1535), it is surrounded by the viale Strozzi that is part of the belt of tree-lined big avenues projected by G. Poggi in the second half of the XIX and built century on the old wall of the XIV century, of which are to the north of the river Arno three big doors.

• La Porta San Gregorio e Forte di Belvedere o di San Giorgio

• Strength erected in 1595 by Buontalenti, dominates the palazzo Pitti and Boboli. From the banks it is enjoyed beautiful views on the city.

• Piazza del Duomo

• It is the most central in the city and it picks up in their interior the religious most important buildings, all them of marble policromado with geometric drawings: the Font, Campanile of Giotto and Santa Maria of Fiore (Duomo).

• Piazza della Signoria

• In her the life of the city is developed. It contains the civil good known building of Florence, Palace Vecchio or della Signoria, it has as bottom Loggia della Signoria and the numerous sculptures that it possesses they contribute to create the special atmosphere of the square. these are the equestrian statue of Cosimo I, of Giambologna, of the year 1594; Fontana gave square dell'Ammannati (1575), source with a Neptune called il popularly Biancone; the statue of brass of "Judith and Holofernes", work of Donatello and under the gallery, "Perseo" of Benvenuto Cellini (1554) and the "Kidnapping of the sabinas "of Giambologna (1583). Loggia, also called dell'Orcagna or dei Lanzi (1382), gallery erected by Benci gave Cione and San Talenti, it is a clear example of the Florentine Gothic.

• Palazzo Vecchio o della Signoria

• Tel 276-84-65

  Schedules: open from 9.00 to 19.00 h., festival from 8.00 to 13.00 h. closed Saturdays.

  The civil most important building in Florence is one of the medieval most significant public palaces in Italy. It was eirigido among the years 1299 and 1314 according to the tradition for Arnolfo I gave Change in a Gothic style that confers him/her great uprightness; it has three high floors of seat of pietra forte and a balconada salediza almeneada in which a tower, called d'Arnolfo of 94 m of height arises. The patio porticado of a style of the first Rebirth was renovated by Michelozzo. The upper floors were reorganized by Vasari in the late Rebirth. They can also visit one another Salone dei Cinquecento that houses the sculptural group 'Victoria' of Miguel angel, Studiolo of Francesco I, Tesoretto, decorated by Vasari, the Room dei Dugento, the Room dei Gigli, and the Room of Cancelleria, where Maquiavelo worked.

• Address: Piazza della Signoria
• Palazzo degli Uffizi

• It works Renaissance carried out by Vasari in the years 1560-1580, it is the headquarters of Galleria degli Uffizi, one of the valued museums in the world. In the ground floor it is the cycle of fresh of A. Of Castagno that shows illustrious characters' portraits. In the first plant it highlights the Cabinet dei Disegne delle Stampe with engravings and drawings. In the Corridor Vasariano that Uffizi unites Palace Pitti crossing Arno for the bridge Veniccio, one can enjoy Colleccione degli Italian painters' Autoritatti and foreigners that go of the XVI century until our days. Their galleries, prepared in corridor form, show flamenco and Florentine tapestries of the XVI-XVII centuries, as well as old sculptures. In the second plant outstanding wonderful works of Cimbaue can be admired, Duccio gave Buoninsegna, Giotto, Simone Martini, Paolo Uccello, Veneziano, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo gives Vinci, Rafael, Miguel Angel, Titian and Rembrandt.

• Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi
• Palazzo Pitti

• Built with rustic stone of seat, this it is one of Florentine most grandiose Palaces. They highlight their facade, of 205 meters long and the magnificent cortile patio of the year 1570 work of Ammannati. This palace was great ducal residence and in the years 1865-1871 were part of the court of the new Kingdom of Italy. Nowadays it contains in their interior Galleria Pitti that in their impressive rooms, with colored roofs, it houses the beautiful ones fresh and works of Titian and Rafael.

• Address: Colina Boboli
• Appartamenti Monumentali

• Antigua residence of Medici and of Lorena that later became the Rooms of Elegance of Saboya.

• Address: Giardini Boboli
• Phone: 21-34-40
• Piazza Santa Croce

• Great square presided over by the Franciscan church, it is surrounded of Florentine typical buildings, as Palazzo Serristori (final of XV), attributed to Baccio d'Agnolo, and the palazzo dell'Antella, with three plants in leaning saledizo on big brackets.

• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

• Modern building in Via Magliabechi it is the most important library in Italy.

• Case degli Alighieri

• House where, it is supposed, Dante was born.

• Address: Via Santa Margherita 1
• Via Tornabuoni

• Street flanked by buildings of the XV-XIX centuries

• Borgo Santi Apostoli

• Street with houses and towers of the XIII and XIV centuries that one of the urban groups crosses bigger than Florence, intactoen their biggest part.

• Palazzo Roselli del Turco

• Palace of Baccio D'Agnolo 1517.

• Address: Via Borgo Santi Apostoli
• Piazza Santa Trinitá

• Square in which is the homonymous church and Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni

• Palazzo Bertolini Salimbeni

• Building designed by Bacci d'Agnolo 1520 with classic forms.

• Address: Piazza Santa Trinitá
• Palazzo Davanzati

• Elegant house of the XIV century, with the ground floor of seat stone, gallery of the XIV century and patio with perron. It is headquarters of Museum della Fiorentina Casa Antica.

• Address: Via Porta Rossa
• Palazzo Strozzi

• Florentine good known Renaissance Palace, begun in 1489 with Benedetto gives Maiano and continued by Cronaca, author also of the patio porticado with gallery, concluded in 1504. The relief of the one padded of the facade that puts an end to a flown magnificent cornisamento, it goes diminishing progressively of below up.

• Address: Via Tornabuoni
• Palazzo Rucellai

• One of the works teachers of principles of the Rebirth, carried out by B. Rossellino on plan of L. B. Alberti 1451; it has three plants with slight padded separated by cornices. It houses the Museum I gave Storia della Fratelli it Photographs Alinari.

• Address: Via della Vigna Nuova 18
• Piazza di Santa Maria Novella

• Square in which is the Gothic church of the same name, Loggia of San Paolo, gallery decorated with lockets of terracotta of G. Della Robbia and luneto of A. della Robbia.

• Palazzo Medici Ricardi

• Renaissance Palace, current headquarters of the Prefecture, erected toward 1444-1464 on design of Michelozzo; the ground floor has padded of rustic stone and the cornisamento it is figured with great wealth. The 'cortile' patio is porticado and with galleries. In the interior it highlights the capella, entirely decorated with fresh of B. Gozzoli 'Arrival of the Magicians to Nativity' 1460 and the galleria whose vault shows the cool air of the 'Apotheosis of Médicis', work of Luca Giordano 1683.

• Address: Via Cavour
• Phone: 276-05-26
• Piazza di San Lorenzo

• Square that houses the homonymous church and the Library Medicea Laurenziana

• Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

• Located in a building built by Miguel angel 1524'1578, celebrated for the lobby and the perron that already point to the Baroque; in the long one it salts rectagular they are exposed in their lecterns some valuable codexes centuries IV - XIII.

• Address: Piazza di San Lorenzo 9
• Piazza della Madonna degli Aldobrandini

• Square where Baroque Capella dei is Principi and Sagrestia Nuova.

• Via dei Servi

• It narrows rectilinear street flanked by old houses with having tiled saledizos, with the magnificent view of bottom of Santa maria of Fiore.

• Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

• The most harmonious square in the city, porticada in three of their sides. It has to the right one of the best examples in the Florentine Rebirth, Spedale degli Innocenti. In the same place it is the homonymous church.

• Spedale degli Innocenti

• Schedules: open from 9.00 to 14.00 h. and Sundays and festival from 8.00 to 13.00 h. Closed on Wednesdays.

  One of the best examples in the Renaissance architecture. It was a projected hospital and built by Brunelleschi 1426. Their facade opens up in a piazza of wide arches finished in 10 circular lockets of terracotta carried out by A. della Robbia. In the patio there is a 'Announcement' of the same artist. In the second plant Galleria dell'Ospedale is.

• Address: Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 12
• Phone: 247-93-17
• Portico della Confraternita dei Servi di Maria

• Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

  Building planned by A. it gives Sangallo the Old one and Baccio d'Agnolo (1525)

• Viale dei Colli e Viale Michelangelo

• One of the most beautiful walks in Florence, with a layout of 6 km, designed by G. Poggi (1870). San Niccoló reflects among the bridge and (piazza F. Ferrucci) and it carries it Roman to the Southwest of Boboli. This road ascends in slight slope and with views full with charm with the name of Viale Michelangelo until the piazzale Michelangelo

• Piazzale Michelangelo

• Beautiful square, esplanade from which one of the most celebrated panoramas in Italy is embraced, with the city the valley and the bordering hills.

• Porta Romana

• Solid door raised in 1326.

• Piazza Del Carmine

• Calm square where the church of Santa Maria of Carmine runs off with.

• Stadio Comunale

• Municipal built stadium according to the project P. L. Nervi in the year 1032. It has a capacity for 55000 expectadores and elliptic big external stairways. To their side it is the Tower Maratona of 55m of height.

• Address: Viale dei Mille
• Palazzo dei Congressi
• Address: Pratello Orsini
• Phone: 26025
• Fax: 211830
• Piazza del Duomo.

• It is the most central in the city and it picks up in their interior the religious most important buildings, all them of marble policromado with geometric drawings: the Font, Campanile of Giotto and Santa Maria of Fiore (Duomo).

• Giardino di Bovoli

• A true garden of Italian style projected by Tribolo in the year 1550 and concluded in the century VII. It has a surface of 45.000 square meters with interesting places like the Grotto of Buontalenti 1588, the Amphitheater, the Nursery of Neptune 1565, the Forte of Belvedere and the Gentleman's Garden, from which one obtains a splendid panoramic. In the park it also meets estate that houses to the Museum of the Porcelain, with pieces coming from Sevres, Vienna, Meissen, Worchester, Capodimonte and Ginori.

• Address: Behind of Palace Pitti. Piazza Pitti
• Phone: 213440
• Le Cascine

• It is the name of a well-known park that extends for the banks of Arno, throughout more than 3 km, in the western area of the city. It is formed by thick forests, clear and wide avenues, it houses some sport facilities, among those that highlights, mainly, the great race track.

• Garden of Iris

• Open of the 2 at May 20

• Address: Piazzale Michelangelo
• Garden of the Roses

• Open of May 15 at June 15

• Address: Viale Poggi 2
• Phone: 234-24-26
• Garden of the Museum Stibbert
• Address: Via Stibbert 26
• Phone: 486-049
• Garden Villa Il Ventaglio

• Via Albini 12

• Address: Via Albini 12
• Phone: 580-283
• Horticulture garden
• Address: Via Bolognese 17
• Phone: 480-469

• Fiesole

• To 8 km to the noresete of Florence, in the hills among the valley of the river Arno and that of river Mugnone. The city was founded in the century VII to. C. by Etruscos. It was elected place for Boccaccio, Carducci, Proust, Gertrude Stein and Frank Lloyd Wright that were surely attracted by the valleys of olive trees and the beautiful view of Florence.

• The Villas of Medici

• In the summit of the power, Medici built some palaces in the neighbourhood of the city like summer residences. Those but beautiful they plows: Villa Medicea Petraia that is to 3,5 km to the florencia north, castle reconverted in palace by Buontalenti in 1576; Villa Medicea gave Castello it was Lorenzo's il summer residence I Magnify (at the moment only you visitael park).

• Ponte Vecchio

• The bridge that we see in present time was built in 1345 to substitute the satiny one for the floods of 1333. The bridge presents in all its longitude the famous Corridor Vassari that was built in five months by Vasari (1561) so that Cosme I Medici could have a sure desplacamiento between Uffici and the palace Pitti.

  In the half age the stores were occupied by fishmongers, butchers and artisans of the leather and skin. These trade that gave off unpleasant scents, were prohibited by the duke Fernando that wanted to have a pleasant walk from Uffici to the palace Pitti. In 1593, they settled jewelers and goldsmiths here that to part of offering better atmosphere paid a much higher rent.

  In Second World War the Germans, when retiring destroyed all the bridges except for this. It is one of the most symbolic places in Florence.

• Ponte Santa Trinita

• The bridge was reconstructed in 1557 by Ammannati. It is believed that Miguel's angel project era since the elegant curves of the arches remember to the tombs of Medicis. In 1944 it was totally destroyed by the Germans. The bridge that you leave today is the exact copy of the old one, made between 1954 and 1957.

• I Bike Italy

• It offers routes guided by day in mountin bike whole or of half-day in the neighbourhood of Florence, including the mounts around Fiesole toward the northeast of the city.

• Phone: 234 23 71

• Post Office
• Address: Palazzo delle Poste, Via Pellicceria
• City Hall of Florencia
• Address: Chiasso Banoncelli
• Phone: 2302124
• Fax: 2302033

• Tourist Informacion Office

• Only information by mail

• Fax: 124 62 86
• Tourist Informacion Office 2

• Tel. 29 08 32, 29 08 33, Fax 276 03 83

  Open the working days from 8.15 to 19.15 and Sundays from 8.45 at April 13.45 to October; the rest of the year up to 13.45 and closed on Sundays.

  Office that offers information has more than enough Florence city and the neighbourhood.

• Address: Via Cavour 1r
• Phone: 055290832-3
• Fax: 0552760383
• Airport"Amerigo Vespucci" Tourist Informacion Office

• Open from 8.30 at 22.30 every day.

  The employees speak Spanish, English, German and French and they can provide wide information about the city and their services.

• Phone: 31 58 74
• Tourist Informacion Office of Firenze 2

• Largo Alinari, southeast exit of the estació of trains Santa Maria Novella

  Open working from 8.15 at 19.15 in summer. In winter from 9.00 at 13.45.

• Address: Comune di Firenze
• Phone: 21 22 45
• Tourist Informacion Office of Firenze

• Tel.234 04 44

  Open working from 8.15 at 19.15 in summer; in winter from 9.00 at 13.45.

• Address: Borgo Santa Croce 29 r
• Phone: 0552340444
• Fax: 0552264524
  
• Firenze SOS Turista

• Hours of attention: working from 10.00 at 13.00 and from 15.00 at 18.00

  Special service that starts to October and it has as end to advise to the tourists that need help in the matters like disputes on the prices of the hotels etc.

• Phone: 276 03 82

• Police

• Emergency Phone through Italy 113

• Phone: 113
• City Police

• Phone: 3283333
• Fire Station
• Phone: 115
• Carabinieri

• Emergency Phone through Italy 112

• Phone: 112
• Police Station

• Phone: 4 97 71

• Service Prescribes for Tourists

• Open 24 hours

  The doctors speak English, French and German.

  The office of tourism has the list of doctors and dentists that speak other languages.

• Address: Via Lorenzo il Magnifico 59
• Phone: 47 54 22
• Hospital Creggi
• Address: Viale Morgagni 85
• Phone: 427 71 11
• Hospital Santa Maria Nuova
• Address: Piazza Santa Maria Nuova 1
• Phone: 2 75 81
• Ambulatorio
• Address: Piazza del Duomo
• Istituto Ortopedico Toscano
• Address: Viale Michelangelo
• Phone: 65881
• Mayer
• Address: Via L. Giordano
• Phone: 56621