Points of Interest

Boboli Gardens

8 minutes walking | see route

Located behind Palazzo Pitti, the garden was created thanks to the Medici family, who first took care of its arrangement, creating a model of "Italian" garden that became an example for many European courts. The vast green area divided in a regular manner constitutes a real open-air museum, populated with ancient and Renaissance statues, adorned with caves, most notably the famous one created by Bernardo Buontalenti, and grand fountains, such as the Neptune and Ocean fountains.

Palazzo Pitti:

19 minutes walking | see route

Acquired in 1550 by Cosimo I de' Medici and his wife Eleonora di Toledo to transform it into the new grand-ducal residence, Palazzo Pitti soon became the symbol of the Medici's consolidated power over Tuscany. Residence of two other dynasties, the Habsburg-Lorraine (successors of the Medici from 1737) and the Savoy, who inhabited it as the royals of Italy from 1865, Palazzo Pitti still bears the name of its first owner, the Florentine banker Luca Pitti, who in the mid-fifteenth century wanted it to be built—perhaps by design of Brunelleschi—beyond the Arno, at the foot of the Boboli hill.

Uffizi Gallery

27 minutes walking | see route

One of the most famous museums in the world, located in the wonderful 2-story building built between 1560 and 1580 according to the design of Giorgio Vasari, the Uffizi houses extraordinary collections of sculptures and paintings containing absolute masterpieces of art, from Giotto to Leonardo, passing through Raphael, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio, as well as masterpieces of German, Dutch, and Flemish painting. The collection of statues and busts that further embellish the corridors of the Gallery is also remarkable.

Palazzo Vecchio

29 minutes walking | see route

Located in Piazza della Signoria in the center of Florence, the palace, designed for the Florentine Signoria (from which the name of the square), was built starting from 1299 and developed on two floors, housing rooms and works of absolute beauty. The Salone dei Cinquecento, with a length of 54 meters, a width of 23 meters, and a height of 18 meters, represents, by volume, the largest Italian hall for the management of civil power.

Vasari Corridor

31 minutes walking | see route

The aerial walkway that connects the Uffizi Gallery to Palazzo Pitti is an exciting route that leads to the discovery of the city from surprising and unexpected viewpoints. Created by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici, the Corridor runs for about a kilometer above the city and the river, enters palaces, encircles the Tower of Mannelli, overlooks the Church of Santa Felicita, and ends at Pitti and Boboli.

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
The Duomo

33 minutes walking | see route

The main Florentine church, a symbol of the city and one of the most famous in Italy, when completed in the fifteenth century, it was the largest church in the world. The construction of the Duomo, ordered by the Florentine Signoria, began in 1296 and structurally completed only in 1436, stands on the foundations of the ancient cathedral of Florence, the church of Santa Reparata, in an area of the city that has housed places of worship since Roman times. It still boasts the absolute primacy of the largest masonry dome, built by Filippo Brunelleschi.

Piazzale Michelangelo

34 minutes walking | see route

Constructed in 1869 according to the design of architect Giuseppe Poggi on a hill just south of the historic center, as the completion of the redevelopment works of the left bank of the Arno, the Piazzale represents the best viewpoint to enjoy all the beauties of Florence, from dawn to sunset.

Accademia Gallery

40 minuti a piedi | see route

The birth of the Gallery dates back to 1784, when the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo reorganized the Academy of the Arts of Design, founded in 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, into the modern Academy of Fine Arts. The new institution occupied the premises of the thirteenth-century Hospital of San Matteo and those of the convent of San Niccolò di Cafaggio. The museum was enriched by the suppressions of churches and convents ordered by Pietro Leopoldo in 1786 and Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810. The decisive event in the museum's history was the transfer of Michelangelo's David from Piazza della Signoria in August 1873.

Boboli Gardens - By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Palazzo Pitti - By Jean-Christophe BENOIST - Own work, CC BY 2.5, Link

Vasari Corridor - By Jordiferrer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Uffizi Gallery - By Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Piazzale Michelangelo - By Michael Wittwer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Palazzo Vecchio - By JoJan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore - By Petar Milošević - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Colegamento

David di Michelangelo - By Jörg Bittner Unna - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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