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 Christianity. The first documented occupants of the church (around the late 1100) were the Augustinian friars, known as the “Polverosi” (the dusty) because of the color of their habit. Today, this magnificent Romanesque-style church houses major works of art, such as the frescoes Madonna with Child by Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio and the Annunciation by Raffaellino del Garbo.
Via di Novoli, 31
+39 055 417188
www.sandonatoinpolverosa.it/
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30 am- 12.30 pm, 3 pm – 7 pm; Sunday 7.45 am - 7 pm
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 d [...]
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 d [...]
SAN DONATO - UNIVERSITA'
61 mt
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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'
308 mt
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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 dri [...]
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'
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 [...]
