Giardino di Palazzo Pandolfini is a 15th-century palace was designed in 1514 by Raphael Sanzio and decorated with statues, fountains, water features and numerous types of flowers and plants. The Italian-style garden structure was turned upside down in the nineteenth century, when Eleonora Pandolfini gave the garden an English layout and she had a greenhouse built where to shelter ornamental plants in winter. 

Via San Gallo, 74
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Cloister of the Scalzo

CAVOUR 973 mt
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Cloister of the Scalzo was the entrance to the chapel of the Company of the Disciples of St. John the Baptist, also called ‘the Scalzo’ (‘dello Scalzo’), founded in 1376. Designed by Giuliano [...]

Giardino di Palazzo Pandolfini

CAVOUR 1.1 km
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Giardino di Palazzo Pandolfini is a 15th-century palace was designed in 1514 by Raphael Sanzio and decorated with statues, fountains, water features and numerous types of flowers and plants. The Itali [...]

Basilica of San Marco

SAN MARCO UNIVERSITÀ 1.3 km
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centre of Florence. Facing the homonymous square, it was founded in the 13th century and restored in the 15th century at the behest of Cosimo Il Vecchio de’ Medici, who entrusted the work to Michelo [...]

Department of Earth Sciences - University of Florence

DONATELLO 1.2 km
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The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence is in a central area of the city and it offers degree courses in Earth Sciences, Geology and Environmental Sciences. It is also an advanc [...]

Museo di San Marco

SAN MARCO UNIVERSITÀ 1.3 km
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Museo di San Marco is located within the monumental part of the Dominican convent of San Marco. Inside, there is the largest collection of Beato Angelico’s works, such as the Annunciation, a masterp [...]

Botanical Garden - Giardino dei Semplici (University of Florence)

LA MARMORA ORTO BOTANICO 1.1 km
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Botanical Garden or Giardino dei Semplici is the third oldest botanical garden in the world, established as a garden of medicinal plants at the behest of Cosimo I de' Medici in 1545. Today, there are [...]

Museum of Geology and Paleontology

LA MARMORA ORTO BOTANICO 944 mt
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Museum of Geology and Paleontology of the University of Florence contains one of the largest paleontological collections in Italy. Here many fossils found in Tuscany, such as those of mastodons and so [...]

The Last Supper - Sant'Apollonia Convent

SAN MARCO UNIVERSITÀ 1.3 km
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Cenacolo di Sant’Apollonia is part of the Benedictine monastery of Sant’Apollonia, the largest female monastery in Florence, founded in 1339. Inside, you can see the large fresco of the Last Suppe [...]