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| Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo Localita Cafaggiolo, Florence, 50030 |  |
the summer of 2000 Karen and I returned to Italy for more archaeology, sun, and good food, this time to the little Tuscan village of San Piero a Sieve in the Apennines foothills north of Florence. Our excavation at the M... more
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| Palazzo Medici Riccardi Via Cavour 1, Firenze, 50129 | |
The Medici Palace was a definite disappointment. It had a small garden, small courtyard, and small chapel. There was one beautiful room with gold and paintings everywhere, and there was a painting of the Madonna and Chil... more
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| Casa Buonarroti Via Ghibellina, 70, Florence, 50122 | |
Artemisia 's painting was one of the first in the room to be commissioned, and the painter had received an advance payment of some size as early as 1615. Michelangelo the Younger had a particular fondness for Artemisia, ... more
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| Cenacolo di Foligno Via Faenza, 42, Florence, 50123 | |
executed sometime in the 1470s, has been variously attributed to Perugino or to one of his followers. Its placement, at the end of a long room -- the former refectory for a group of nuns -- is simply breathtaking; becaus... more
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| Tempio Israelitico di Firenze Via Farini, 4, Florence, 50121 | |
This is a very interesting and unusual synagogue. It is the first synagogue built in Italy after the emancipation which occurred in the 19th century. The synagogue was built in 1892 on the money left by a wealthy merchan... more
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| Chiesa Evangelica Luterana Lungarno Torrigiani, 11, Florence, 50125 | |
This church is the only Lutheran of its kind in Florence. It was built in 1901 in the garden that once belonged to the Torrigiani family. The garden, which is annexed to The Palazzo Torrigiani and was built in the 16th C... more
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| Chiesa Ortodossa Russa Via Leone X, 8, Florence, 50129 | |
The presence of this church is representative of an international and cosmopolitan period in Florence, right at the beginning of the 20th century. The design, which is a square...
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| Villa Medicea La Petraia Via della Petraia, 40, Florence, 50141 | |
It was Ferdinando I de' Medici who commissioned the restructuring works to this castle, which belonged to the Brunelleschi family in the second half of the 16th century. It seems more than likely that Buonalenti was plac... more
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| Santa Trinita Piazza Santa Trinita, Florence, 50123 | |
The wall of the transept, above the chapels, features David, and the Tiburtine Sybil telling Augustus of the birth of the Redeemer. The Sassetti family chapel, which is the rightmost of the two chapels, has his scenes fr... more
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| Parco della Villa Medicea di Castello Via di Castello, 47, Florence, 50141 | |
A year after the young Duke's rise to power, in 1538, the garden was planned according to a complex symbolical design in which the statues, fountains and grottoes celebrated Cosimo's new status.
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