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FLORENCE

EXPLORING ITALY STEPH & ADAM STYLE: FLORENCE

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May 2014

BASILICA DI SANTA MARIA NOVELLA

PALAZZO PITTI

CAPPELLE MEDICEE

GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA

Art Museum

Museum

Art Museum

Church

“You’ll want to see the Galleria Palatina, with much of the Medici’s art collection; don’t miss adjoining Giardino di Boboli—it’s the best garden in the city.

Crypt and chapels containing tombs of many of the Medici family; major sculptures by Michelangelo.

Home to Michelangelo’s “David” and his four non finiti (unfinished) stone “Slaves”; also some paintings, including work by Botticelli.

The city’s second major church after Santa Croce; Masaccio’s 15th-century painting of a Maestà is one of the city’s most important.

Piazza dei Pitti

Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini 6

Via Ricasoli 58

Piazza Santa Maria Novella

CAPPELLA BRANCACCI

MERCATO CENTRALE

MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL BARGELLO

Church

Farmer's Market

Art Museum

“The paintings here changed the course of art history.”—Luca Finardi. Groundbreaking 15th-century fresco series by Masaccio and Masolino.

A vast covered market selling fruit, vegetables, olive oil, and dozens of other gastronomic treats. (closed Sundays and after about 2 p.m. daily)

piazza del Carmine 14 +39 055 238 2195 www.museicivicifiorentini.it/en/brancacci/

Via dell'Ariento +39 055 239 9798 www.mercatocentrale.it

VIVOLI

GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZI

Ice Cream

Art Gallery

BASILICA DI SANTA CROCE Church

Italy’s leading gallery of Gothic, Renaissance, and other sculpture; works by Michelangelo and Donatello.

Countless paintings, including fresco cycles by Giotto; many illustrious characters buried here, including Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo.

Via del Proconsolo, 4

Piazza Santa Croce

PIAZZA DEL DUOMO Plaza

“The city’s best gelateria, or ice-cream parlor, is Vivoli, near Santa Croce at Via Isola delle Stinche 7.”—David Gardner, proprietor, Baldovino restaurant.

The world’s greatest gallery of Renaissance art. Countless Italian masterpieces, but also works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck & other leading European artists.

The heart of Florence; climb the bell tower for sweeping views; see the octagonal Baptistery; visit the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo - city's most iconic building

Via Isola delle Stinche, 7

Via della Ninna, 5 (Piazza della Signoria) www.florencepass.com

Piazza del Duomo ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it/

MARTA STEPIEN jauntful.com/mstepie1

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