Spotlight on Florence
Fall in love with Florence this summer, walking around this impressive city, whilst sipping on a granita or indulging in gelato to keep cool, read on to find out more...
Fall in love with Florence this summer, walking around this impressive city, whilst sipping on a granita or indulging in gelato to keep cool!
As seen in many photos of the city, Florence Cathedral in the Piazza del Duomo, dominates the skyline with its famous red dome. Now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site it makes up part of the cathedral complex which also includes the Baptistery, one of the oldest buildings in the city constructed in the 11th Century. Want to find out more about Florence Cathedral, enter its vast interior, and walk on its carpet of polychrome marbles? Don’t wait in line for centuries, skip the queue here:
Visit a former prison full of Renaissance masterworks at the Bargello Museum.
This museum's collection includes four Michelangelos, and Donatello's famous bronze ‘David’, a beautiful work depicting him as a slight (and slightly effeminate) boy, a far cry from Michelangelo's treatment of the same subject. There are plenty of other lesser known, but equally impressive, works here. Use these Skip the Line tickets to get right into yet another unmissable Renaissance Museum in the Tuscan capital. Skip the line here…
Explore the painter Fra' Angelico's Dominican Monastery. The renowned painter Fra' Angelico was a superstar of the early Renaissance. It was here at the Chiesa di San Marco and its adjoining 15th-century Dominican monastery that he served God, along with firebrand preacher Girolamo Savonarola. See Angelico's most famous art and frescoes as you explore this 15th-century religious complex.
Unsurprisingly, many more artists lived in Florence during the Renaissance period as is evident from the galleries, museums and exhibitions dedicated to them. Get up close to some of Michelangelo’s masterpieces at the Medici Chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, and skip the line here Museo de' Medici - Yacooba
With so much going and located in the heart of Tuscany, surrounded by both man-made and natural beauty, Florence is a treat for all your senses, so are you ready to be enlightened?