Jacopo Carucci called "The Pontormo" (1494 - 1556) was one of the most famous mannerist painters. He was born in a three floor Medieval building where objects and works of art are on display, showing [...]
The archeological site revealed the Romanic church of S. Martino al Poggio and various materials that date back to the period between the sixth century B.C. and the first century A.D. It also revealed [...]
The museum, housed in an Augustinian convent of the 15th Century in the centre of Certaldo Alto, occupies the area of the cloister of Saint Jacob and Saint Philip Church and its adjacent rooms. It [...]
Limite sull'Arno, a river port on the river of the same name, is home to the oldest rowing club in Italy, founded in 1861, and numerous shipyards: an activity, the latter, that has its origins in the [...]
Piazza Mino, in Fiesole, is the heart of this hilltop town. It is home to Fiesole's main public and religious buildings, such as the Town Hall, the small church of Santa Maria Primerana, the Cathedral [...]
The theatre was built in 1913 by the members of the centennial Mutual Benefit Society of Rifredi who are still the owners. During the mid-20s it was burned by the fascist brigades and later [...]
Remembered by Dante as “beautiful San Giovanni”, the octagonal-shaped Baptistery is one of the city’s oldest buildings; it acquired its current appearance in the 11th–12th centuries but probably dates [...]
The bell tower of Florence Cathedral, known as Giotto’s Campanile, was designed by the great 14th-century master. 84.7 metres tall and approximately 15 metres in breadth, it is the most eloquent [...]
One of the most important Florentine Renaissance building bound up with the history of the Medici family. The basilica consacreted by Saint Ambrose in 393 and rebuilt in a Romanesque form in the 11th [...]
The Palazzo Corsini sull'Arno dates back to 1649, when a building was acquired by Maria Maddalena Machiavelli, Marquise Filippo Corsini’s wife; at the beginning, it was a “Casino” that is a small [...]
