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Palazzo Vecchio 
Piazza della Signora I - 50122 Firenze
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Built by the powerful priors, the Palace of Lords was started in 1299 and finished ten years later to plans by Arnolfo di Cambio (the architect of the first phase of the cathedral). Originally of Gothic inspiration and designed as a fortified str..
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Vasari Corridor
Piazza degli Uffizzi I - 50122 Firenze
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The Roman Popes had a passetto built leading from their Castel Sant'Angelo apartments to the Vatican. Cosimo I commissioned Giorgio Vasari to design a similar passageway from the Palazzo Vecchio to his Palazzo Pitti residence on the other bank of..
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Gallery of Offices
piazzale degli Uffizi 6 I - 50122 Firenze
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In 1560, Cosimo I commissioned Vasari to design a building near the Palazzo Vecchio to house the Medici administrative offices ( uffizi ). The architect razed to the ground the Romanesque church of San Pier Scheraggio (a few vestiges of which are dis..
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Square of the Lords 
Piazza della Signoria I - 50122 Firenze
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Unlike many Italian cities which group political and religious buildings in one focal point, Florence, like Siena, opted for division: the imposing Palazzo Vecchio of the Signoria , its entrance capital decorated with two marzocci (lions) on a b..
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Loggia della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria I - 50122 Firenze
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The loggia was constructed at the end of the 14C to accommodate the members of the Florentine government (the Signoria) during official ceremonies. It was later used as a guardroom by Cosimo I's lancers. Today it houses Antique and Renaissance statue..
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Bargello National Museum
v. del Proconsolo 4 I - 50122 Firenze
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The Gothic Bargello palace (mid-13C) originally housed the Capitano del Populo, then the Podestà, served as a prison until the mid-19C and is now a museum devoted to the great masters of Renaissance sculpture.
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Old Florentine House Museum 
v. Porta Rossa 13 I - 50123 Firenze
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The museum is located in the Davanzati Palace (circa 1350), a narrow, three-storied building, embellished by a covered terrace supported by four small columns, added in the 16C to replace the medieval crenellation. On the ground floor are three wid..
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Piazza di Santa Croce (Square of the Holy Cross)
Piazza S. - Croce I - 50122 Firenze
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One of Florence's busiest squares. Dominated by the church and cloisters, the campanile in the background and a statue of Dante in the foreground, it is reminiscent of a bygone age, with fine old buildings, including the remarkable Cocchi Serristori..
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Ponte Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio I - 50122 Firenze
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The city's oldest bridge replaced the stone bridge built by the Romans slightly up river. Over the centuries the bridge was destroyed by rising water levels on a number of occasions; the current structure, spanning the narrowest point of the Arno, da..
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Chiesa di Santa Croce (Church of the Holy Cross)
Piazza S. - Croce I - 50122 Firenze
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The arrival of the Franciscans preaching poverty in a city devoted to luxury and pleasure was not immediately appreciated. Nevertheless, they attracted crowds to their chapel outside the walls of the medieval town in the tanners' quarter (now bristli..
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Cloisters of the Holy Cross: Pazzi Chapel and Muse
Piazza S. - Croce 16 I - 50122 Firenze
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Two cloisters to the right of the church lead to the Pazzi Chapel and the Sante Croce Museum . The first, running alongside the church aisle, has a closed gallery containing gravestones and tombs. It is separated by convent buildings from the Gre..
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Cathedral Museum
p.za del Duomo 9 I - 50122 Firenze
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Concealed behind the cathedral chevet, the museum, originally a simple depository for projects and sculptures associated with the cathedral, baptistery and campanile, is an additional part of the visit to the three monuments and holds a few pleasant ..
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Giotto Campanile
Piazza del Duomo I - 50122 Firenze
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Set slightly apart from the cathedral, the 82m-high campanile is formed by a succession of five sections, separated by cornices, accentuated by white, green and pink polychrome marble horizontal pieces. The summit, with its discreet corbelled constru..
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The Cathedral
Piazza del Duomo I - 50122 Firenze
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The Romanesque church of St Reparata (the substructure, built on Paleo-Christian vestiges, can be seen in the Duomo crypt) was deemed too modest for such an important city as Florence. Consequently, work on a cathedral began in 1296 to plans by Arno..
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Sassetti Chapel - Church of the Holy Trinity
Piazza S. -Trinita I - 50123 Firenze
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Although the façade added by Buontalenti (1593-94) is Baroque in style (the pediment, two levels of pilasters and decoration of the central portico), the church is a 14C Gothic construction designed by Nicola Pisano to replace an 11C Romanesque c..
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Strozzi Palace
v. Tornabuoni 7 I - 50123 Firenze
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This is the largest private palace in Florence: started in 1489, to plans by Maiano and taken over by Sangallo the following year, it was finished by Simone di Pollaiuolo, otherwise known as Il Cronaca , in 1504. It was built around fifty years ..
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Baptistery
Piazza del Duomo I - 50122 Firenze
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Attention is particularly drawn to three bronze doors. The Gothic-style South door, sculpted by Pisano from 1330 onwards, has quatrefoil panels illustrating the theological and cardinal virtues in the two lower sections and the life of John the B..
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Cathedral Square
Piazza del Duomo I - 50122 Firenze
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Piazza del Duomo , the religious centre of the city, is in two parts: the square where the cathedral and campanile are situated and Piazza S. Giovanni to the west with the baptistery and the 15C St Zanobi's column, capped by a bronze palm leaf in ..
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Buanarroti House
v. Ghibellina 70 I - 50122 Firenze
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Michelangelo purchased a group of three houses which he left in the hands of his nephew in 1534 with his plans for alterations when he moved to Rome. Thus, although the Master designed the Casa where his soul and spirit are omnipresent, he never li..
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Galleria Palatina
I - 50010 Firenze
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Located in the heart of the Palazzo Pitti, the Palatine Galley houses an extraordinary collection of paintings including an outstanding collection of works by Raphael (the Veiled Lady , the Madonna of the Grand Duke , the Madonna della Seggiol..
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