This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The head of a bull is embedded in the side of the Cathedral overlooking Via Ricasoli. Behind the mystery, hide two stories, one more likely to be true, the other more legendary and “spicy”. Let read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Ten years after the flood, in 1975, the Medici Chapels were restored. After the restoration works, a concealed corridor of 7 meters by 2 was found below the New Sacristy (Sagrestia Nuova). In this corridor, read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Church of San Miniato al Monte is perched on the hill, south-east of the historical center, just above Piazzale Michelangelo. The church takes its name from the saint who centuries ago was the first read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The beauty of Ponte Vecchio is undeniable. It is so beautiful that even Hitler himself was enchanted by it when he visited Florence with Mussolini in 1938. For their visit, the windows of the Vasari read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. For us Florentine citizens, “Palazzo Vecchio” is that magnificent palace that we admire, photograph but we maybe don’t know in detail. Probably, going inside and understanding it requires many days of accurate study, but sometimes read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. A cemetery dating to the late Roman Age (V-VI century AD) resurfaced below the Uffizi Gallery, during the excavation work (2014) under the Magliabechiana Library. Workers found nearly sixty skeletons of people who died during read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The city of Florence satisfies many curiosities, but it also holds many mysteries that we have not been able to unravel yet. The Basilica of San Lorenzo is a church that was very dear to read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Carrara marble is world famous, mention the name and immediately one thinks of Michelangelo’s Il David or Pietà; but not everyone realizes that just outside of Florence is a small cave, which might not be read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The painting “Madonna of the Roses”, by Titian, is so delicate that it had to be put in horizontal position to prevent it from being damaged. This is the reason why this painting is less read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Bronze bas-relief by Pilade Giorgetti, “Kennedy” was inaugurated in June 1966 and placed in Piazzetta del Giglio, behind Via del Corso. Below the work of art, you can read “Siamo uomini liberi” (we are free read more