SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
39 mt
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A small gem with great art treasures and an over one-thousand-year-long history. Legend has it that the church was established around the year 1000, following a pagan princess' conversion to Christian [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
61 mt
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The former Fiat building was designed in 1938 by the engineer Vittorio Bonadé Bottino. 30 metres tall and with a surface area of some 1200 square metres; after decades abandoned, what was once the po [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
99 mt
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This villa once belonged to the Russian Demidoff family ( Nicola Demidoff was Ambassador to Tsar Alexander I) and is one of Florence's most beautiful nineteenth-century buildings. Severely damaged dur [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
99 mt
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This villa once belonged to the Russian Demidoff family ( Nicola Demidoff was Ambassador to Tsar Alexander I) and is one of Florence's most beautiful nineteenth-century buildings. Severely damaged dur [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
248 mt
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True street art has the task of bringing colour to our city and displaying freedom of expression. This mural in the San Donato Park was inaugurated during the March for Human Rights on 8 October [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
208 mt
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It has 8 screens, a total of 1,800 seats and Digital Dolby Surround technology. It is the Novoli multiplex, belonging to Italy's largest movie theater chain. It includes a cafeteria which offers drink [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
308 mt
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Where part of the old Fiat factory once stood there's now a spacious and lovely park, a favourite place among students from the nearby university faculties (the Polo and Social Sciences). It features [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
364 mt
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Established in 2002, the project for the Social Sciences Center of Florence, the work of none other than architect Adolfo Natalini, fits within the wider context of urban redevelopment of the Novoli a [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
364 mt
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An interesting destination for culture lovers is the famous library of the Campus Universitario, or University Centre, in Novoli. Opened in 2004, 900,000 books previously held in seven different [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
494 mt
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An interesting example of Italian Rationalist architecture, this building, inaugurated in 1940, began life as a social club for the employees of Manifattura Tabacchi. After the war, it was used as a b [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
458 mt
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A modern building (completed in 1960) whose sober stone-clad facade is nevertheless impressive. Climb the stairs and enter the building through one of the three doorways. Soak up the delightful atmosp [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
461 mt
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In Novoli, walk past the Caponnetto student residence and breathe the culture in the air. This is effectively a microcosm of young people from all over the world, here to study at the famous Universit [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
594 mt
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A center outside of the city center. Located near the Cascine Park, the imposing trapezoidal Manifattura Tabacchi complex- designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in the 1930s in true rationalist style- is the s [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
692 mt
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This is one of the most recent NSDs to appear in Florence. It arises from the desire to add value to the street of the same name by bringing together a number of commercial businesses and organising v [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
719 mt
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Natural shopping districts (or NSDs) arise from traders' need to shine a light on their local area and offer their customers everything they need for daily life, while avoiding the confusion of mass r [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
992 mt
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The Jewish community of Florence is one of the oldest and most numerous in Italy. It is no coincidence, in fact, that in the city there are a magnificent synagogue and two cemeteries, one of which, in [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
1 km
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Officially named the "Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of the University of Florence" in 1936, its roots date back to the immediate post-Union of Italy period, when Tuscany was mainly fou [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
1.1 km
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It is the Air Force Academy, which is based in a monumental complex within the Cascine Park. Dating back to 1930s, the building has preserved its original interiors. Worth noticing is the commemorativ [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
1.6 km
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Did you know that “Cascine” simply means “cacio” or cattle for the production of cheese and butter.? And that already in the 1800s it was completely crossed by the tram? This vast area of 160 [...]
