Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Florence, Italy

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 7.9 km
Ascend 78 m
Descend 71 m

Experience Florence in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in FlorenceIndividual Sights in Florence

Sight 1: Orti Oricellari

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The Orti Oricellari is a monumental garden in the street of the same name near Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. It was the garden of what is now called Palazzo Venturi Ginori, and belonged to the Rucellai family, of which "Oricellari" is a variant of the family name.

Wikipedia: Orti Oricellari (IT)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di San Jacopo di Ripoli

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The church of San Jacopo di Ripoli is a Catholic place of worship located in Via della Scala in Florence, in the area of Santa Maria Novella.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Jacopo di Ripoli (IT)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Chiesa della Beata Elisabetta Vendramini

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The church of Beata Elisabetta Vendramini is a Catholic place of worship located on Via degli Orti Oricellari in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Beata Elisabetta Vendramini (IT)

761 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Firenze)

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The church of San Giuliano is a Catholic place of worship located on Via Faenza in the historic center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuliano (Firenze) (IT)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Cenacolo di Fuligno

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The Last Supper of Fuligno is a museum in Florence, dedicated to the great Last Supper by Pietro Perugino, in the refectory of the former monastery of Sant'Onofrio, also known as the Nuns of Foligno.

Wikipedia: Cenacolo di Fuligno (IT), Website

316 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Barnaba

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The church of San Barnaba is a small Renaissance-style church in the center of Florence, at the corner of Via Panicale and Via Guelfa

Wikipedia: San Barnaba, Florence (EN)

222 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni

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The former Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is a religious building in Florence, Italy, located on the corner of Via San Gallo and Via Guelfa. It was originally called the church of San Basilio, also known as the Church of the Armenians.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Basilio degli Armeni (IT)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Cenacolo Di Sant'Apollonia

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Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339, just north of the center of Florence, in Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Apollonia (EN), Website

80 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Oratorio di Gesù Pellegrino

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The Oratory of Gesù Pellegrino, also called the Oratorio dei Pretoni, is a Roman Catholic prayer hall or small church found on the corner of Via San Gallo and via degli Arazzieri in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Oratory of Gesù Pellegrino (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Generale Manfredo Fanti

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The monument to General Manfredo Fanti is a statue of Pio Fedi (1873), located in Florence in the center of St. Mark's Square.

Wikipedia: Monumento al generale Manfredo Fanti (IT)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Basilica di San Marco

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St. Mark's Basilica in Florence is one of the churches in the historic city center, overlooking a crowded square and serving as a reference point for the surrounding urban area. The church was originally part of the large complex of the convent of San Marco, where many of the most important representatives of fifteenth-century spirituality and culture lived and worked: Cosimo the Elder, St. Antonino, Fra Angelico, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Fra Bartolomeo, Tommaso Caccini and, above all, Fra' Girolamo Savonarola, who preached against the decadence of morals, He was hanged and burned in Piazza della Signoria in 1498. From 1934 the mayor of Florence, Giorgio La Pira, also lived there, and was later buried in the Basilica.

Wikipedia: Basilica di San Marco (Firenze) (IT)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Chiostro dello Scalzo

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The Chiostro della Scalzo or is a cloister in Florence, Italy that originally led to a chapel once belonging to a religious company known as the Compagnia del diciplinati di San Giovanni Battista or della Passione di Cristo. The term "scalzo" makes reference to the barefoot brother who carried the Cross during its public processions.

Wikipedia: Chiostro dello Scalzo (EN), Website

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Geologia e Paleontologia

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Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Geologia e Paleontologia Daderot. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Museum of Geology and Paleontology in Florence preserves and exhibits fossils of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, which lived millions of years ago, as well as fossil plants and rocks.

Wikipedia: Museo di storia naturale sezione di geologia e paleontologia (IT)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Galleria dell'Accademia

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The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, or "Gallery of the Academy of Florence", is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture David. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a large collection of paintings by Florentine artists, mostly from the period 1300–1600. It is smaller and more specialized than the Uffizi, the main art museum in Florence. It adjoins the Accademia di Belle Arti or academy of fine arts of Florence, but despite the name has no other connection with it.

Wikipedia: Galleria dell'Accademia (EN)

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Fontane dei mostri marini

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The two fontane dei mostri marini are located in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Fontana dei mostri marini (EN)

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Basilica della Santissima Annunziata

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The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata is a Renaissance-style, Catholic minor basilica in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. This is considered the mother church of the Servite Order. It is located at the northeastern side of the Piazza Santissima Annunziata near the city center.

Wikipedia: Santissima Annunziata, Florence (EN)

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Cappella di San Luca

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The Cappella di San Luca, also called dei Pittori is a chapel found in the cloisters of the convent of Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy. It was built to serve as the burial chapel for members of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, and was donated by the Servites to the Academy in a document from 1565. It contains a collection of terracota statues from a number of prominent Florentine Mannerist sculptors.

Wikipedia: Chapel of St Luke, Annunziata (EN)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: MAF Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze

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The National Archaeological Museum of Florence is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy. It is located at 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta.

Wikipedia: National Archaeological Museum, Florence (EN), Website

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Oratorio di San Pierino

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The oratory of San Pierino, formerly the headquarters of the Compagnia della santissima Annunziata, is located in Via Gino Capponi, in the historic center of Florence.

Wikipedia: Oratorio di San Pierino (Firenze) (IT)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Fondazione Scienza e tecnica

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The Science and Technology Foundation is a scientific and cultural institution based in Florence, in Via Giusti 29, where it manages the FirST - Firenze Scienza e Tecnica Museum.

Wikipedia: Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (IT)

496 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 21: Chiesa Evangelica Valdese di Firenze (Holy Trinity Church)

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The Waldensian Church of Florence is located in Via Pier Antonio Micheli on the corner with Via Alfonso La Marmora. It was an Anglican place of worship with the title of Holy Trinity Church from its construction until 1966.

Wikipedia: Chiesa Valdese (Firenze) (IT), Website

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: Chiesa di San Giovannino dei Cavalieri

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San Giovannino dei Cavalieri previously named Church of San Giovanni Decollato, is a parish church situated in Via San Gallo in central Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Giovannino dei Cavalieri (EN)

298 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Chiesa di Sant'Agata

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The church of Sant'Agata is a Catholic place of worship located on Via San Gallo in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Agata (Firenze) (IT)

334 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Arco di Trionfo

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The Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine located in Piazza della Libertà in Florence, Italy, is an 18th-century, monumental triumphal arch, bypassed by the viali di Circonvallazione that skirt Florence through the space once girded by its 16th-century walls. The piazza stands at the northernmost end of Via Cavour, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Wikipedia: Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine, Florence (EN)

590 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa di San Francesco

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The church of San Francesco is a Catholic place of worship located in Piazza Savonarola in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Francesco (Firenze) (IT)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Teatro Le Laudi

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The Teatro Le Laudi is a theatre in Florence, Italy.

Wikipedia: Teatro Le Laudi (IT)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo

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The Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo is a museum encompassing the small palace and studio of the artist Rinaldo Carnielo (1853-1910), located on Piazza Savonarola #3, Florence, region of Tuscany. Italy.

Wikipedia: Galleria Rinaldo Carnielo (EN)

539 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia

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The Santa Lucia Family Home in Borgo Pinti in Florence is a charitable institution.

Wikipedia: Casa famiglia Santa Lucia (IT)

1443 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 29: Chiesa dei Sette Santi Fondatori

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Other dictions:Church of the Holy Seven Founders in Rome

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Sette Santi Fondatori (IT)

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