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La Volta di San Pierino is the starting point of this shopping walk in the lively Santa Croce area dotted both with specialty food shops (selling cheese, ice creams or chocolate) and restaurants, pizzerie, trattorie. Further on... more
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Giardino Botanico Tropicale, managed by the Istituto Agronomica per l'Oltremare, is a beautiful botanical garden having a splendid variety of tropical plants. Opened in 1904, the garden has around 300 species of tropical plants... more
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The Giardino dell'Iris is a botanical garden that specializes in the beautiful Iris flower species, which is the symbol of Florence. The garden has been open to the public since 1954 and is owned by the Società Italiana dell'Ir... more
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This 17th-century villa stands on the Imperial Hill, so called because of its connections with the imperial D'Asburgo family through the Grand Duchess Maria Magdalena, wife of Cosimo II de' Medici and sister of the Emperor Ferd... more
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Situated in the heart of Florence, Chiesa di Santa Monica steals the show with its beautiful architecture and sculptures. It also makes a fine venue for concerts to be held. The main hall can seat about 50. more
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As the city's skyline symbol, the legendary Duomo is famous above all for its dome: Filippo Brunelleschi's Renaissance masterpiece, completed in 1436, created a double dome shell so that the dome is entirely self-supporting. It... more
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Inside this garden lies the Buontalenti grotto (1583-1593). Decorated with Mannerist-style scenes from Greek and Roman mythology, the grotto includes copies of Michelangelo's famous Slave series, the originals of which were tra... more
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At the start of via Calzaiouli stands this Loggia. It was named by Bigallo when he transferred his confraternity, bearing his name, and merged it with the Misericordia confraternity, the first owners of the Loggia which had bee... more
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This 14th-century building was commissioned by Cosimo il Vecchio. Originally owned by the Lippi family, it passed to the Medici family in the 15th Century and the villa saw both the birth of Lorenzo the Magnificent and his deat... more
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This is an exceptional example of an Italian-style garden, carefully tended by the Capponi family, who came into possession of it in the seventeenth century. The family completely renovated this old country home which had previ... more
Calenzano Travel Experiences
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A Renaissance blur
We had to get up extremely early this morning in order to board the bus for our drive to Florence. The bus stopped a few times along the... Continue reading »
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Florence- How can you NOT love it?
On Friday I took the 6:45am train to Florence, only about an hour away from Bologna. It was a busy day because I wanted to do about a tho... Continue reading »
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Florence, Day 4 - An entire museum dedicated to s...
Since we spent the majority of the previous day shopping, we got up really early to see the rest of Florence that we had missed!We walked... Continue reading »
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Now I'm Museumed and Cathedraled out
Today I started out early in the morning because Let's Go was saying that there were all kinds of queues to wait in to get into the most... Continue reading »
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Spring Break
The first day we boarded the Gran Mistral at the Barcelona port. The entire day we were on the water traveling to Italy. There were storm... Continue reading »
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