The Gipsoteca of the Istituto statale d’arte of Florence, now the Liceo Artistico of Porta Romana, is the most interesting collection of plaster cast models in Italy, from fourteenth to the twentieth...
After the death of Indro Montanelli, the contents of his studies in Milan and Rome were moved to Fucecchio, into Palazzo Montanelli della Volta, the premises of the foundation set up at the journalist...
The museum occupies the house where Giotto is traditionally thought to have been born in 1267, and acts as an archive centre for documents and accounts relating to the life of the great master. It...
Known as Villa di Bellosguardo since the late fourteenth century, the villa of the Segni family changed ownership in the nineteenth century. The romantic park was created in that period, while the...
The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa...
La Quiete villa (the Quietness) named after the fresco called “La Quiete che domina i venti” painted by Giovanni from San Giovanni in 1632. Former owners were the Orlandini family, then Villa La...
The villa had belonged to the Salviati family from the 15th to the 17th century. It is immersed in a 19th century garden. Sculptures and terracotta tondi by Rustici are all over the park. After a long...
