Don Renzo Forconi Garden

Opened in 2016, this three-hectare park in the Careggi area was named after Don Renzo Forconi ( the President of Opera Diocesana di Assistenza for forty years). The park includes a dog area, a large free car park and many picnic tables with bench seating. The park has been chosen to house the “bosco della memoria”, a wood planted with 525 cypress and olive trees dedicated to the victims of the Covid pandemic.

Via Pietro Dazzi,1
Opening hours: every day from 8 am to 8 pm

Villa la Quiete

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 1.2 km
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This villa was named after the fresco commissioned to Giovanni da San Giovanni  in 1632 by Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine: The Quiet That Pacifies Wind.  It had been also very popular with the [...]

Medicean Villa of Careggi

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 714 mt
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Surrounded as it is by tall trees, this great renaissance villa, just steps away from the car park of the Careggi Hospital, often goes unnoticed. This is, however, the villa where one of the most illu [...]

Church of San Giovanni Battista in Careggi

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 500 mt
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Located near the famous Medici Villa where Lorenzo the Magnificent was born and died, the church of St. John the Baptist in Careggi was built in the early 20th century, and is dedicated to the city’ [...]

Meyer Hospital

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 925 mt
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This children’s hospital was built upon a pledge of love. Established in 1884, it was, in fact, built by Russian philanthropist Giovanni Meyer as a tribute to his wife who died young and had express [...]

Neighbourhood Market - Via Jervis

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 832 mt
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We’re at a traditional local market in Rifredi, Quartiere 5. Every morning except Sunday, stalls appear, often changing daily but always offering all kinds of products, from food to clothing and orn [...]

Careggi University Hospital

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 3 mt
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A landmark for medical training and healthcare in Florence, this polyclinic stands on 78 hectares of land at the foot of the Careggi hill. Since the 1990s it has been recognized as the largest univers [...]

Villa Aurora

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 400 mt
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ViIla Aurora is one of the largest of the stately villas grouped picturesquely on the hills just above Careggi, and was already documented in the late 14th century as the property of the Macinghi, a n [...]

Seventh-Day Adventist Church

CAREGGI - OSPEDALE 181 mt
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A Protestant Christian denomination formally established in the mid-19th century and present in Italy since the 1930s, the Seventh Day Adventist Church has two places of worship in Florence, one in th [...]