The Romanesque church of Santi Apostoli is one of the oldest churches of the city. According to legend it was founded by Charlemagne but documents state it in 1075. It stands very close to the Roman...
Piazzale Michelangelo, the most famous panoramic terrace of the Florence... The works for the construction of the square ended in 1875. The entire square should have become a monument to Michelangelo...
The Piazza della Santissima Annunziata is characterised by the Renaissance aspect which Brunelleschi conferred in it with the construction of the colonnade for the Ospedale degli Innocenti ( Museum)...
The upper part of the city of Signa, the Castle, constitutes the oldest core of the city - founded around the year 1000 - and looks surrounded by remains of 14th-century walls, with imposing towers...
This square took shape at the end of the 13th century, when the worldwide famous Basilica of Santa Croce, of the Franciscan Order, was rebuilt (1295), based on a design by Arnolfo di Cambio, and...
The square came into being along with the Palazzo Vecchio between the thirteenth and fourteenth century, establishing itself from the first as an area dedicated to the civic life of the city. Inside...
The religious centre of the city is made up of the monumental complex the Cathedral and the Baptistery, and by the two squares which surround them. In Roman and late Mediaeval Florence this area was...
