Florence - Itineraries
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San Giovanni and the magic of Florence
A tour of Florence, a city home to a quite incredible number of the world's most important works of art and architecture, is the prefect introduction to the cultural and artistic foundations of modern day Italy. Our tour of the Tuscan capital commences at the city's S.Maria Novella railway station, from where we head to the nearby Piazza San Govanni and Florence Cathedral, past renaissance palazzi, historic caffè, century old...
Santa Croce, heart of Florence
We start our tour of Florence's Santa Croce district on the city's Ponte Vecchio, the famous bridge lined with jewellers shops which traverses the river Arno. In 1565 Cosimo I commissioned Giorgio Vasari to find a way of uniting the Palazzo Vecchio with Palazzo Pitti, buildings situated on opposite sides of the river. Thus, the Corridorio Vasariano was created: an elevated covered walkway which starts from the west corridor of the...
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