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Firenze

The Fortezza Da Basso is a few minutes from Santa Maria Novella, the church that preserves famous frescoes and precious works of art and the museum, including the famous Green Cloister and the Spanish Chapel. Continuing along the main road lies the heart of Florence, Piazza del Duomo, the monumental complex of Santa Maria del Fiore Basilica. Behind the cathedral stands the Museo dell’Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore, where you can admire a valuable collection of works from the Cathedral, the Baptistery and the Campanile. Piazza della Signoria is the historical center of civil life and is home to the fourteenth-century Loggia dei Lanzi, the Fountain of Neptune and the Palazzo della Signoria or Palazzo Vecchio, one of the symbolic monuments of the city, in front of which are located some famous statues including a copy the famous David by Michelangelo. Next to the square there is the majestic Uffizi Gallery, home to one of the most important museums in the world, which includes works by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and many other great artists. Architectural element of particular importance in the Gallery is the Vasari Corridor, designed by Vasari to the mid-sixteenth century connecting the property with the Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. Do not miss the sixteenth-century Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, also called Loggia del Porcellino for the characteristic bronze statue, actually depicting a boar, considered a good luck charm, and the grandiose Palazzo Strozzi, the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, with a magnificent inner courtyard . Particularly fascinating is the medieval quarter of Santa Croce, dominated by the Basilica, famous for its frescoes by Giotto and to guard the tombs of many illustrious Italians, including Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli. Through the ancient and picturesque Ponte Vecchio, littered with historical goldsmith shops, you reach the Oltrarno district, where he meets the beautiful piazza dominated by Palazzo Pitti, the imposing and sumptuous palace that was the residence of the Medici and Lorraine, with wonderful park, the Boboli gardens, a splendid example of Italian garden. Still in the Oltrarno, not forgetting the panoramic Piazzale Michelangelo, a favorite destination of tourists for the wonderful views of Florence and the surrounding hills, and the church of San Miniato al Monte, one of the best examples of Florentine Romanesque.

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Piazzale Michelangelo

Designed in 1869 by the Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi , Piazzale Michelangelo provides a beautiful panoramic view of Florence and the Arno . Created as part of the major renovation of the city walls in 1869 , this sumptuous terrace Poggi is typically nineteenth century . The Poggi He built the square as a monument for the celebration of Michelangelo and his works , which were to be presented here , both the Daivid that the sculptures of the Medici in San Lorenzo . When the terrace was finished , Poggi also designed the loggia in neoclassic style that was house a museum of the works of Michelangelo . the building has never become a museum , and today is a famous rooftop restaurant .

Villa Demidoff

At the gates of Florence one of the most beautiful parks in Florence, the Park Pratolino often known by the name of Villa Demidoff, characterized by a very intriguing story that led him initially to be a model for European gardens in the mannerist, highest example of excellence artistic and technical, then it continues to decline and then transformed into the landscape. Modern beginning of the nineteenth century, without losing however the poignant charm of the extraordinary complex. He was called “the garden of wonders”. Ancient Medicean Park have been preserved: the Chapel, built by Buontalenti in 1580, the Great Aviary, the Bath or Peschiera of the Mask, The Gigante dell’Appennino made by Giambologna, the Grotta del Mugnone, the Cave of Cupid, the Stables, a part of the basins of Gamberaie.Dal 2013, the Garden of Pratolino is inserted in serial site Tuscan Villas and Medici gardens, world heritage UNESCO.

Museo Stibbert

To note a very interesting museum, the private museum Stibbert. The museum owes its existence to an extraordinary man, Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906), of an English father and an Italian mother, was born in Florence but educated in England.Il draft Stibbert was articulated over the years.Al his return to Florence he began the creation of collections of arms and armor; over time were joined by customs, paintings, tapestries, items of furniture and objects of applied art in the desire to document all areas in which the changes in taste and the development of production techniques stimulated the creation of art objects.

The Museum of Natural History

The Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, with ten million copies and more than four centuries of history, is the most important Italian naturalistic museum and one of the largest internationally.
The Museum is now organized into eight sections located in various parts of the city of Florence: Anthropology and Ethnology, Biomedical, Botany, Chemistry, Geology and Paleontology, Mineralogy and Lithology, Botanical Garden, Zoology.
All collections are actively studied, preserved and enhanced in order to convey the extraordinary legacy of scientific and historical knowledge that represents the true value of a museum institution.
The spirit of the Renaissance, which marked the beginning of the modern age and produced in Florence an effective synthesis between science and art, soul still today this institution where the desire to give a boost to the renewal blends admirably with the desire to keep ties with tradition.

http://www.msn.unifi.it

Uffizi

The gallery occupies the entire first and second floors of the large building constructed between 1560 and 1580 to a design by Giorgio Vasari: it is one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures and paintings (from the Middle Ages modern). The collections of paintings of the fourteenth century and the Renaissance contain some absolute masterpieces of all time: just remember the names of Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael , Michelangelo, Caravaggio, as well as masterpieces of European painting, especially German, Dutch and Flemish. Not least in the Italian art scene of the collection of statues and busts of antiquity of the Medici family. The collection adorns the halls of the gallery and includes ancient Roman sculptures, copies of Greek originals were lost.
http://www.uffizi.it/

Accademia delle belle Arti

The Galleria owes its vast popularity to the presence of some sculptures by Michelangelo: the Prisoners, the St. Matthew and, the famous David. In adjacent spaces, derived from two ancient convents, were collected from the nineteenth century, important works of art from the Academy of Design, Academy of Fine Arts and from suppressed convents. It is largely of paintings by major artists working in and around Florence, from the second half of the thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century. In particular, the collection of “gold-ground paintings” is unique in the world. In the halls of the first floor you can admire a collection of magnificent late Gothic altarpieces, complete in all part. Also of note, the plaster casts of two nineteenth-century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni. Since 2001 the Gallery has been enriched with the Department of Musical Instruments, which includes ancient, important instruments of the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, from the Medici and Lorraine collections.
http://www.accademia.org/it/

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore metro, commonly known as the cathedral of Florence, is the main church in Florence, symbol of the city and one of the most famous in Italy and the third largest church in the world [1]. It stands on the foundations of the ancient cathedral of Florence, the Santa Reparata Church in a part of the city that hosted the worship since Roman times.
The construction of the cathedral, ordered by the Florentine Signoria, begins in 1296 and ends from a structural point of view only in 1436. The initial work was entrusted to the architect Arnolfo di Cambio and then be interrupted and resumed several times over the decades (by Giotto Francesco Talenti and Giovanni di Lapo Ghini). Upon completion of Brunelleschi’s Dome followed the consecration by Pope Eugene IV on March 24, 1436. The dedication to Santa Maria del Fiore occurred during construction, in 1412.
https://www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it/

Battistero di San Giovanni

The baptistry dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of Florence, is one of the oldest churches in Florence and is located opposite the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, in Piazza San Giovanni.
Initially it was located outside the circle of the walls, but it was included, along with the cathedral, the walls built by Matilde di Canossa (“Fourth Circle”). It was originally surrounded by other buildings, such as the Archbishop’s palace that came much closer, which were torn down to create the current square. The baptistery has the dignity of minor basilica.
https://www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it

Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is one of the finest Italian Renaissance palaces. Of imposing size (15 buildings were destroyed well make room for him), is located between the homonymous Via Strozzi and Piazza Strozzi, and Via Tornabuoni, with three great identical portals, on as many sides.
Real Florentine civil architecture masterpiece of the Renaissance, was initiated at the behest of Filippo Strozzi, a wealthy merchant belonging to one of the wealthiest families in Florence, by tradition hostile to the faction of the Medici.
The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation offers throughout the year an extensive program of high-quality exhibitions and international level.
Within the frame of one of the masterpieces of Florentine Renaissance, in the spaces of the main floor and Strozzina, the Foundation organizes art exhibits ranging from ancient art from the Renaissance to modern times and contemporary art.
http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/

La Strozzina

The CCCS (CCCS) was created in 2007 as part of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in the will to give the city of Florence a world-class center to house thematic exhibitions of contemporary art, according to an interdisciplinary approach to date on the most latest scientific research and current trends of the contemporary world. So projects like “Emotional Systems”, dedicated to the relationship between art and emotion in the light of the most recent neuroscientific findings, “China China China !!!”, dedicated to the recent boom of ‘Chinese contemporary art, “Art, Price and value”, which analyzed the growing links between contemporary art and the international economic system, “Green Platform”, dedicated to ecological issues and sustainability, “Manipulating Reality” and “Gerhard Richter and the Disappearance of the image in contemporary art” that addressed the issue of the representation of reality in the modern world. More recently exhibitions “As Soon As Possible” and “Virtual Identity” have addressed issues of digital communications companies, on the one hand the social problem of the acceleration and the other the theme of identity in comparison with the so-called network society.
http://www.strozzina.org

La Specola Museum

The Museum of the Observatory, in Via Romana in Florence, is one of the sections of the Museum of Natural History, University of Florence and is the heir of the oldest scientific museum in Europe . Especially in this very building (Torrigiani palace, already Bini) was the core of the collection when it was the Royal Institute of Physics and Natural History Museum in 1775, while today, after the separation of the collections, houses two separate collections: the zoological with examples of animals preserved mainly through stuffing, and the anatomical, with wax models dating back mostly to the eighteenth century. The name of the Observatory refers to the observatory that the Grand Duke Peter Leopold installed in the turret, where there was also the meteorological station of Florence La Specola Museum.
http://www.msn.unifi.it

The ways of wine

Chianti is a region not very extensive but very rich from the naturalistic point of view, valuable from a historical artistic and generous for its food and wine.
For this there are infinite perspectives and possibilities of routes between its hills, its natural landscapes and the medieval memory villages, remained unchanged over time.
The Chiantigiana road between the most beautiful in Italy, runs through the Chianti from Florence to Siena. Follow it is a great way to discover the territory.
From Florence, take the SS222 road towards Greve in Chianti. The country is the heart of the Chianti Classico production zone and worth a visit. two roads branch off from here: one leads to the valley of the Arno near Figline and St. John’s along the high hills, the other narrow and partly unpaved rejoins the Via Cassia near Sambuca Val di Pesa going from village Montefioralle and Passignano.
Continuing on the Chiantigiana Panzano meets, the last outpost of the Florentine Chianti and continuing to the junction you can be reached by a side of Radda in Chianti and other Castellina. From the latter you can go down to the Elsa and go back to San Gimignano, Monteriggioni and visit to Siena.
If you go towards Radda, however, the landscapes are made less extensive but it’s great historical importance and present of this country in the Chianti wine tradition. Taking the Chiantigiana you get to Gaiole in Chianti.
All around the area is rich in castles and villages. Examples are Spaltenna, Vertine and Barbischio. Continuing Siena meet a number of direct routes to the most beautiful places in the area, where Castelli as Bolio, Apple Orchard, Castagnoli, blend into the landscape endless vineyards, woods and medieval villages such as the beautiful Lucignano.
The tour ends at the gates of Siena.
The southern part of Chianti is made up of the four municipalities in the province of Siena: Castellina in Chianti, Radda in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti and Castelnuovo Berardenga.
Along the stretch of road between Poggibonsi Castellina in Chianti are the ruins of Monterano, castle appointed since 1089 and certainly one of the most powerful and vast buildings of the Valdelsa. Once in Castellina, the fifteenth-century Rocca Comunale overlooking the old town. Inside the Etruscan Museum collects the numerous Etruscan objects discovered in these areas. Nearby it is instead the Hypogeum of Mount Calvary, an imposing Etruscan tomb considered the most important found in Chianti.
After traveling for 12 km SR429 you reach Radda in Chianti medieval village with Gaiole in Chianti, the capital of terziere at the time of the Chianti League.
Two major tours: one to the church of Santa Maria a Spaltenna, the other in the village of Vertine, once owned by the Ricasoli family. Proceeding lie in succession the Brolio Castle and the small village of San Gusme, Sienese stronghold against Florence.
The itinerary ends in Castelvuovo Berardenga, Siena, where he built the last castle. Although a good part of it still is part of the municipality, Castelvuovo is located outside the boundaries of Chianti Classico.
The northern part of the Chianti region comprising the municipalities of San Casciano Val di Pesa, Tavarnelle and Barberino Val d’Elsa
Leaving Florence after traveling 23 km meets San Casciano Val di Pesa. On this road May 21, 1891 was inaugurated Train of steam Chianti. Located in the extreme northern part and inserted only partly in the territory of Chianti Classico, San Casciano is a primitive village developed at the Pieve di Santa Cecilia a Decimo.
Leaving San Casciano after 16 km you arrive at Tavernelle Val di Pesa, ancient village mentioned already in a parchment of 780. Nearby, to visit the beautiful fortified village of the Abbey and the church of S. Donato in Poggio.
A few more kilometers and you get to Barberino Val d’Elsa, the last leg of this journey. Here you can pay a visit to the Chianti Botanic Park divided into four categories: flowering plants, woodsy, aromatic plants, varieties of fig tree.
To visit the area in the Paneretta Castle, Monsanto and the Pieve di S. Appiano.