This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Rub the Nose of the “Porcellino” in the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo The “Porcellino” is one of Florence’s icons; it’s both amulet and tradition. You can find copies of “Il Porcellino” in Aix-en-Provence, France, in read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Medici Villa La Petraia is located in the quiet area of Castello, Via Petraia 40 in Florence. It is considered one of the most beautiful and famous Medici villas, situated in a panoramic position read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Make an Appointment with the Owners for a Guided Tour. Deep in the heart of Florence, hidden behind walls, the Torrigiani Gardens, measuring 7 hectares (over 17 acres) is the biggest private garden in Europe. read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Loggia del Mercato Nuovo hosts a bicolored marble piece of work that reproduces one of the wheels of Carroccio, which was the symbol of the Florentine Republic. In the past, this spot was called read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. «Nor ample less nor larger they appear’d Than, in Saint John’s fair dome of me beloved, Those framed to hold the pure baptismal streams» (Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Inferno XIX) Florence is appreciated and studied read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. One of Michelangelo’s least known inventions is the polyhedron, which shows the link Michelangelo had with Leonardo da Vinci. It is an object made of two hemispheres faceted in 60 small triangles, and it was read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The XV century’s mathematician and cartographer Paolo Toscanelli made a 4-centimeter-wide hole on the cupola of the Cathedral, through which he could observe the sun. The small hole channeled the beams of the sun that read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Loggia dei Lanzi houses a famous bronze statue depicting Perseus while holding Medusa’s head in one hand, and a sword in the other. What is interesting about the statue is that on the back read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Recently, underground rooms and corridors were discovered below the Basilica of San Lorenzo. They probably belonged to an ancient city that remained hidden through centuries. On the walls, there are drawings and maps of all read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. On the façade of Palazzo Vecchio, left of the entrance, behind the statues of Hercules and Cacus, there is a face carved in stone. It is not easy to spot. It is thought to be read more