This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The building of Parco delle Cascine began thanks to the ‘de Medici family, who wanted to build a farming and hunting estate. The very name of the park derives from “cascio”, which refers to bovine read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Hospital of the Innocents in Piazza Santissima Annunziata takes it unusual name from being the refuge for abandoned babies. The hospital was built thanks to a donation of an important merchant from Prato, Francesco read more
Frente a la Porta Romana, a ambos lados de la subida Viale Macchiavelli, se encuentra uno de los parques públicos más bellos de Florencia: el Bobolino. El nombre está inspirado en el cercano Giardino di Boboli (en español Jardín de Boboli): el Bobolino es una versión más pequeña, pero no read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Embedded in the wall of Santa Maria Maggiore Church, overlooking Via Dei Cerretani, there is a petrified head that is thought to belong to Berta, a Florentine woman who lived in the city in 1300s. 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