Museums, buildings and gardens in Florence

Museums, buildings and gardens in Florence… Which ones are worth a visit? How can you choose among the wide range of opportunities the city offers? A guided tour to Galleria Palatina is a real immersion into the Italian and international painting. Still furnished in an ancient style, our tour will not be guided by chronology, but by a face-to-face dialogue with beauty. Instead, a tour of Palazzo Vecchio (the political heart of the city since ever) is perfect for those who love history: in addition to the wonderful frescoes in its rooms, we will discover the history of Florence from 1299 onwards.Palazzo Medici-Riccardi will lead us into the house of the first Medici, Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent (Michelangelo lived there for just few years). During the guided tour, we will see the Journey of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli or the Mirrors’ Gallery by Luca Giordano. A guided tour into Boboli Gardens will lead us back to the first years of the Tuscan Grand Duchy, a wonderful example of Italian gardens among last-Renaissance works, beautiful fountains and alchemical routes of Buontalenti’s Large Grotto.Palazzo Davanzati will be a plunge into the life of a rich family at the beginning of the Renaissance era, a suitable tour for both families and kids.
Finally, a guided tour to Museo del Bargello is absolutely perfect for sculpture lovers, even though it holds part of the medieval history of the city (Guelphs and Ghibellines) and the following years, when it became a real prison. Whichever museum, building or garden you choose, it will be a success for sure! We will be more than happier to go together into the Florence history, art and traditions, with a guided tour that may help you to enjoy completely the Florentine treasures. 

Churches in Florence The Church has always been the main art commissioner; mostly during the Middle Ages, the bare walls of Gothic and Romanic churches got full of beauty. Upon request of the same church or the powerful families who fought to have chapels and side altars, these were decorated with prestigious frescos, statues and graves. It may even happen that the bare rock and the architecture of circle and square in San Lorenzo by Brunelleschi, the volutes of Santa Maria Novella façade by Alberti, the marble design of the Dome welcome the visitor and make him surprised. The guided tour into the Florentine churches is a continuous return to the past. In Florence, it is fundamental to understand how, within a Gothic church like the Dome, which goes up to the sky, mankind was small and insignificant if compared to God; and, soon after, when entering Santo Spirito, to understand the Humanism of Brunelleschi, who makes human beings feel at the centre of divine creation. This is why you should visit the Florentine churches, whether you are devoted or not, in order to better get in touch with these art chests and soul places. “A psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art in narrow spaces”. This is the definition of the Florence Syndrome, more known as “Stendhal Syndrome” because of the popular episode of the French writer-traveller, who fainted when looking at Cappella Niccolini in Santa Croce. Come with us for a guided tour of the Florentine churches, you will be taken aback for sure!

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