Few people imagine that the large 14th century Tree of Life panel, as rare as it is among the best described, admired by hundreds of thousands of visitors every year to the Accademia, was originally housed in the church of San Piero a Monticelli.
Endowed with a thousand-year history (records date it back to 1051, when it was among the assets of the Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Antimo), this church is famous for having housed two saints, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Catherine de Ricci. The latter entered the convent in 1531 and it is said that she manifested her first mystical ecstasies before the Giottesque crucifix that can still be seen in the church, together with a late sixteenth-century Annunciation by a young Jacopo Ligozzi and a Last Supper.
Via di Soffiano, 1
SANSOVINO
342 mt
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If you are looking for the most avant-garde place in terms of theatre, dance and music, you cannot miss the Teatro Cantiere Florida, which opened in 2002. A place where new ways of giving substance to [...]
PAOLO UCCELLO
698 mt
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The 'younger sister' of the nearby Church of San Pietro in Monticelli dating back to the year 1000. Built in 1972, this is the second church of what was the ancient hamlet of Monticelli, which spread [...]
TALENTI
423 mt
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It came into being with the tramway. La Tranvata natural shopping district brings together neighbourhood shops along the tramway from Sansovino to Talenti. As well as shops, there are also regularly-h [...]
PAOLO UCCELLO
362 mt
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Also known as “Il Boschetto”, Villa Strozzi’s garden is a large green area dating back to the 1500s and the Polimoda school’s campus until 2011. Laid out with footpaths, benches and panorami [...]
PIAZZA BATONI
171 mt
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The history of this old stone house in the street of the same name is shrouded in a veil of mystery. Legend has it that its bare, austere appearance (it almost gives the impression of a house finished [...]
PIAZZA BATONI
206 mt
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A beautiful bronze installation pregnant with meaning and donated by the Company of Virgilio Sieni- choreographer, dancer and creator of the Quarto Paesaggio project- to the Isolotto co [...]
PIAZZA BATONI
376 mt
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A strong and bold personality, Silvano Santi (his partisan name was “Pillo” ) had been a leading member of the Florentine resistance movement in his youth. Only a few days after his death ( on Jan [...]
TALENTI
180 mt
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For a long time, it was church of Isolotto, when the neighbourhood was in its infancy and did not yet have its own parish church. Nestled between the houses in via Palazzo dei Diavoli, the small octag [...]
