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Name	Category	Location

Badia Fiesolana Be the First to Rate It Map \| From the church of San Domenico, it's a five-minute walk northwest...	Religious Sites	Fiesole

Badia Fiorentina Be the First to Rate It Map \| Originally endowed by Willa, Marquess of Tuscany, in 978, this...	Religious Sites	Bargello

Battistero Be the First to Rate It Map \| The octagonal Baptistery is one of the supreme monuments of the...	Religious Sites	Duomo

Cappelle Medicee Be the First to Rate It Map \| This magnificent complex includes the Cappella dei Principi,...	Religious Sites, Memorials / Monuments	San Lorenzo

Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia Be the First to Rate It Map \| The frescoes of the refectory of a former Benedictine nunnery...	Religious Sites	San Marco

Certosa Be the First to Rate It Map \| The incredible Carthusian complex was largely funded in 1342...	Religious Sites	Outside City Center

Chiostro dello Scalzo Be the First to Rate It Map \| Often overlooked, this small, peaceful 16th-century cloister...	Religious Sites	San Marco

Duomo Be the First to Rate It Map \| In 1296 Arnolfo di Cambio (circa 1245-circa 1310) was commissioned...	Religious Sites	Duomo

Duomo Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Duomo reveals a stark medieval interior. In the raised presbytery...	Religious Sites	Fiesole

Museo del Cenacolo Be the First to Rate It Map \| This way-off-the-beaten-path museum (the name translates as the...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Outside City Center

Museo di San Marco Be the First to Rate It Map \| A former Dominican convent adjacent to the church of San Marco...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	San Marco

Museo Horne Be the First to Rate It Map \| Englishman Herbert P. Horne (1864-1916), architect, art historian...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Santa Croce

Ognissanti Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Umiliati owned this hodgepodge of a church before the Franciscans...	Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites	Santa Maria Novella

Oratorio dei Buonomini di San Martino Be the First to Rate It Map \| Founded by Antoninus, Bishop of Florence, in 1441 to offer alms...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Bargello

Oratorio della Vannella Be the First to Rate It Map \| A 20-minute walk through scenic countryside from the piazza leads...	Religious Sites	Settignano

San Domenico Be the First to Rate It Map \| If you really want to stretch your legs, walk 4 km (2 1/2 mi)...	Religious Sites	Fiesole

San Francesco Be the First to Rate It The hilltop church of San Francesco has a good view of Florence...	Religious Sites, Viewpoints	Fiesole

San Lorenzo Be the First to Rate It Map \| Filippo Brunelleschi designed this basilica, as well as that...	Religious Sites	San Lorenzo

San Michele Visdomini Be the First to Rate It Map \| Aficionados of the 16th-century mannerists should stop in this...	Religious Sites	Duomo

San Miniato al Monte Be the First to Rate It Map \| This church, like the Baptistery, is a fine example of Romanesque...	Religious Sites	Lungarno South

Sant'Ambrogio Be the First to Rate It Map \| Named for the Bishop of Milan, this 10th-century church once...	Religious Sites	Santa Croce

Santa Croce Be the First to Rate It Map \| Like the Duomo, this church is Gothic, but, also like the Duomo...	Religious Sites	Santa Croce

Santa Felicita Be the First to Rate It Map \| This late-baroque church (its facade was remodeled between 1736...	Religious Sites	Palazzo Pitti

Santa Maria del Carmine Be the First to Rate It Map \| The Cappella Brancacci, at the end of the right transept of this...	Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites	Santo Spirito

Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi Be the First to Rate It Map \| One of Florence's hidden treasures, a cool and composed Crucifixion...	Religious Sites	Santa Croce

Santa Maria Novella Be the First to Rate It Map \| The facade of this church looks distinctly clumsy by later Renaissance...	Religious Sites	Santa Maria Novella

Santa Trinita Be the First to Rate It Map \| Started in the 11th century by Vallambrosian monks and originally...	Religious Sites	Santa Maria Novella

Santissima Annunziata Be the First to Rate It Map \| Dating from the mid-13th century, this church was restructured...	Religious Sites	Santissima Annunziata

Santo Spirito Be the First to Rate It Map \| The plain, unfinished facade gives nothing away, but the interior...	Religious Sites	Santo Spirito

Sinagoga Be the First to Rate It Map \| Jews were well settled in Florence by 1396, when the first money-lending...	Religious Sites	Santa Croce

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