would take a few weeks to see everything Florence has to offer.Almost any of its dozens of churches would be the tourist attraction of a smaller city.Some of his attractions are among the best known icons of Italy – Ponte Vecchio, David to Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi – and the whole city is a showcase of the Italian Renaissance, the humanistic artistic movement that broke the dark of the darkness.
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Tourist Attractions
From any angle, inside or outside, the octagonal baptism in the 12th century is a perfect work of art.His marble facade, the complicated interior mosaics and the works of art he owns deserve an important place on.Nowhere was the bronze work with an expression as refined as in these gates of paradise.For a closer look and to see some of the treasures that were made for Baptister, visit Museo Dell Opera del Duomo, the Cathedral Museum.
Behind the Pitti Palace, the Boboli gardens of Medicis rise on the hill in 111 acres of green terraces.The great Duke Cosimo I did not exempt any expense in their building, between 1550 and 1560, and the result became the model for royal gardens throughout Europe (including Versailles).Still beautifully cared for, the gardens climb to views that reveal more and more comprehensive views on the city. There are wells, statues and a false cave, with stalactites and stalagmites in the hill, Grotta del Buontlet.remained from the removal of the stone for the construction of the palace.At the highest point is the Kaffeehaus terrace, and at the top of the hill overlooking the Boboli gardens, Casino del Cavaliere hosts a rich collection of porcelain owned by leading families, including doctors and Savoia.
Piazza Duomo and the group of buildings that form its cathedral complex gather some of the largest artistic treasures of Italy in a relatively small area.While visiting the Baptist, bell tower, cathedral and museum, you will see some of the best known art masterpieces and architecture of the greatest Italian Renaissance, Brunetlleschi, Donatello, Giotto, and Michelangelo.Inlaid, then step inside each to look more closely at the art work in the stained glass, wherever you look at.This 2.5 -hour guided tour includes the Cathedral, the dome, the Baptist, the entrance fees and the option to visit the Opera del Duomo Museum alone.
Only Michelangelo's four masterpieces are a enough reason to put Bargello Palace on your list of things to do in Florence.Works of Donatello, della Robbias, Cellini, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Tuscan artists from the XIV-XVI centuries fill the palace, along with a room with ivory sculptures and a major collection.This focus on decorative arts and sculpture distinguishes Bargello from the rest of the art museums in Florence.
If you have started to worry that Florence is just a giant outdoor museum, it's time to meet some Florentines while running their daily routine.There is no better place to find them only on the huge food market, Mercato Central. In order to get here, you may have to drive a glove of street stalls that sell everything, from cheap plastics to "authentic Italian crafts", which are produced in series, especially in Asia.But once you get inside and immersed in the perfume of fresh herbs, flowers and products in the garden, you will rub the elbows with women who buy ingredients for today's dinner.
Doctors ordered the best talent for the family church and the funeral chapels: Brunelleschi for the church and Michelangelo for the chapel meant to remind their most illustrious princes.Both artists died before finishing the work, but Brunelleschi's church was completed according to his plans.In fact, it has never been completed at all.But what he has finished is considered one of the crowned achievements of the world in marble sculpture.While visiting the Church, the old sacristy, the new sacristy, the princes chapel and the Laurencian library, you will find the works of other Renaissance masters, including Donatello and Lippi.
Few would argue the place of Uffizi among some of the top art museums in the world.His collections are simply amazing in their diversity and quality, and even if art is not your main interest, you should see here the most important moments of the paintings.of the Renaissance artists.One of his most beautiful spaces, the Octagonal Tribuna, was specially ordered to display the most valuable paintings and jewelry of Francesco I by the doctors.
More narrow in furniture and decoration than the spectacular palaces of the later members of the Medici family, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi is more in accordance with the previous dukes, who governed a more democratic society.Completed in 1464, it was the doctors' house for almost a century until Cosimo moved to Palazzo Vecchio.Changes, the doctors museum on the ground floor keeps the original doctors.Here is also one of the most important works of Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child, painted in 1442.
One day at the Pitti Palace complex (and you could spend a day seeing everything) offers you a little taste from many things Florence offers: a remarkable art gallery, a doctors palace, Florentine mastery, history, royal apartments and one of the first gardens in Italy.And the sumptuous rooms, where you will find paintings by Rafael, Titian, Rubens, Tintoretto and other masters - a collection almost rivaling with Uffizi - hanging not in the style of gallery, but as a decor for rooms designed for entertainment and show.
History, art and echo power in the opulent rooms and the great galleries of this palace similar to a fortress in the center of Florence.From here, the city / republic was run, and his powerful doctors have charged the forehead artists and architects to design and decorate their offices and apartments.Return your evening (save your ticket) to climb the roof to admire the sunsets on the city.
This wide market was the center of power in Florence from its origins from the fourteenth century - and maybe just before, because the Etruscan and Roman remains were found under its pavement.Today, it is also the Social Center, a favorite meeting place, full of tourists and locals.In its center is the Neptun fountain, on the one hand Palazzo Vecchio, which still houses the city's government. It is against the Uffizi wall, which forms an end of the market, is Loggia dei Lanzi, a gallery of outdoor sculpture, with several notable pieces.The most recognized of these is Benvenuto Cellini's best -known work, Perseus with the head of Medusa.In front of Palazzo Vecchio is a copy of David of Michelangelo
So often written wrong as Piazzale Michelangelo that even the tourist material of the city slipped occasionally, this terrace above the city is a mandatory stop for the tour buses and the place from which all those photos of the cathedral postcard are taken.During the crowded tourist seasons, the best time to enjoy it in relative peace is the late or early in the afternoon;It is particularly wonderful at sunset.No other height can give you this panoramic view of the city that includes Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Croce and other landmarks.
Ponte Vecchio can be the most recognized icon of Florence, and its graceful arches, covered by a mixture of stores, are certainly one of the most beautiful scenes in the city.The bridge was traditionally the House of Talented Orphevre stores in Florence, and a walk on it shows another blinding range of fine jewelry.The purpose of the bridge, of course, was to link the two parts of Arno, and the doctors had to go frequently between their Palazzo Vecchio offices and their apartments in the Pitti Palace.So they ordered the architect Vasari to build a passage, officially called Percorso del Prin (Prince's Passage), but now more often known as Corridio Vasariano, Vasari Corridor.It's not just a hall;Lining their walls is an invaluable collection of portraits, mostly self-portraits, made by artists including Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo and Velásquez
The view of the Green and White Marble facade of San Miniato Al Monte deserves the short climb beyond the favorite point of view, Piazzale Michelangiolo (or you can stay on the bus to go here).But, unlike the subsequent facades, it rises to a large mosaic of gold.The portic effect looks back at the classical Roman architecture, and the mosaics are of distinct Byzantine inspiration, both influences that are mixed in the new Romanian Tuscan architectural style.Several Byzantine style mosaics, a marble pulpit from the 12th century and the decorated screen of the choir are all the culminating points, and more remarkable is the sacristy.His walls are lined by the vibrant panels of the 14th-century Spinetollo Aretino masterpiece, the life of Saint Benedict.It is among the most splendid rooms in Florence and equal to those in any palace.
Behind the geometric marble inlaid of his typical Tuscan facade, Santa Croce is both an art and mausoleum for some of the biggest names of Florence.His treasures include some benchmarks of Renaissance art.Donatello's crucified Christ is considered one of the best examples of Florentine Renaissance humanism.The frescoes in Cappella Baroncelli are the largest work of Taddeo Gaddi.In the nave, you will find the graves of Michelangelo, Galileo, Ghiberti, composer Gioacchino Rossini, even Machiavelli.
Although this Dominican church has the familiar facade with inlaid marble stripes worn by several other churches in Florence, it was interpreted quite differently, watching graceful curvators, imitating windows and highlighting the arches of the lower story.Ghirlandaio, Lippi, Paolo Uccello.As if it were not enough, a whole chapel is lined with the frescoes of Andrea di Bonaiuto, some of the largest works of Italy in the fourteenth century.Ghiberti.Stop at the historical pharmacy of the monastery, where they sell plants and floral lotions.
