Religious Sites in Florence

Religious Sites in Florence

Sights Overview
Name Category Location
 
Badia Fiorentina
Originally endowed by Willa, Marquess of Tuscany, in 978, this...
Religious Sites The Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio
 
Battistero
The octagonal Baptistery is one of the supreme monuments of the...
Religious Sites The Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio
 
Cappelle Medicee
This magnificent complex includes the Cappella dei Principi,...
Religious Sites, Memorials / Monuments San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia
The frescoes of the refectory of a former Benedictine nunnery...
Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Certosa
The incredible Carthusian complex was largely funded in 1342...
Religious Sites The Oltrarno
 
Chiostro dello Scalzo
Often overlooked, this small, peaceful 16th-century cloister...
Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Duomo
In 1296 Arnolfo di Cambio (circa 1245-circa 1310) was commissioned...
Religious Sites The Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio
 
Museo del Cenacolo
This way-off-the-beaten-path museum (the name translates as the...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites Santa Croce
 
Museo di San Marco
A Dominican convent adjacent to the church of San Marco now houses...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Museo Horne
Englishman Herbert P. Horne (1864-1916), architect, art historian...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites Santa Croce
 
Ognissanti
The Umiliati owned this architectural hodgepodge of a church...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites Santa Maria Novella to the Arno
 
Oratorio dei Buonomini di San Martino
Founded in 1441 by Antoninus, Bishop of Florence, to offer alms...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites The Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio
 
San Lorenzo
Filippo Brunelleschi designed this basilica, as well as that...
Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
San Michele Visdomini
Aficionados of 16th-century mannerism should stop in this church...
Religious Sites The Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio
 
San Miniato al Monte
This church, like the Baptistery, is a fine example of Romanesque...
Religious Sites The Oltrarno
 
Sant'Ambrogio
Named for the Bishop of Milan, this 10th-century church once...
Religious Sites Santa Croce
 
Santa Croce
Like the Duomo, this church is Gothic, but, also like the Duomo...
Religious Sites Santa Croce
 
Santa Felicita
This late-baroque church (its facade was remodeled between 1736...
Religious Sites The Oltrarno
 
Santa Maria del Carmine
The Cappella Brancacci, at the end of the right transept of this...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites The Oltrarno
 
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
One of Florence's hidden treasures, a cool and composed Crucifixion...
Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Santa Maria Novella
The facade of this church looks distinctly clumsy by later Renaissance...
Religious Sites Santa Maria Novella to the Arno
 
Santa Trinita
Started in the 11th century by Vallombrosian monks and originally...
Religious Sites Santa Maria Novella to the Arno
 
Santissima Annunziata
Dating from the mid-13th century, this church was restructured...
Religious Sites San Lorenzo to the Accademia
 
Santo Spirito
The plain, unfinished facade gives nothing away, but the interior...
Religious Sites The Oltrarno
 
Sinagoga
Jews were well settled in Florence by the end of the 14th century...
Religious Sites Santa Croce
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