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 about 4000 potted plants inside two large greenhouses, one cold and one warm. In addition, there are ancient, so-called ‘monumental’ trees such as Micheli’s Tasso planted in 1720, two enormous zelkova plants, a cork tree planted in 1810 and a Montezuma cypress.
Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 3
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Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; closed on Mondays
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CAVOUR
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 [...]
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 [...]
SAN MARCO UNIVERSITÀ
1 km
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National Archaeological Museum in Florence is one of the most ancient and important archaeological museums in Italy. Founded in 1870 as the Etruscan Museum, it housed several Etruscan, Greek and Roman [...]
