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A special cultural program for delegates and accompanying persons

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A special cultural program for delegates and accompanying persons in and around the centre of Florence during ICSV

In this booklet you can find useful suggestions for 55 short visits to many of the most amazing artistic and cultural attractions in Florence.

All of them are located at walking distance (5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes walk) from the Congress venue, or around 30 minutes distance by bus.

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ICSV22 – Walks and visits in Florence 4 Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 1. DUOMO The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Piazza Duomo located in Piazza del Duomo, includes 10 minutes walk the Duomo, 's Campanile, and Baptistery. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Duomo construction started in 1296 designed in Gothic style by Arnolfo di Cambio and was completed in 1436 with the magnificent engineered by .

Mon-Sat 10am - 5pm Sun 1:30pm - 4:45pm

2. BATTISTERO Renowned for its three sets of artistically Piazza Duomo important bronze doors with relief 10 minutes walk : The south doors made by Andrea Pisano and the wonderful north and east doors made by .

Mon-Sat 8:30am – 6:20pm Sun 8:30am- 5pm

3. MUSEO DELL’ One of the world's most important Piazza Duomo DEL DUOMO collections of which includes 10 minutes walk the original Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors for the Baptistery called the Gates of Paradise, ’s “Magdalene Penitent” and "The Deposition" by .

Mon-Sat 9am – 6:15pm Sun 9am- 1pm

4. CHIESA DI SANTA Located near Ponte , the Piazza Santa Trinità TRINITA church is famous for its Sassetti , 10 minutes walk containing notable frescoes by .

Mon-Sat 8-12am – 4-6pm Sun 8am-1:45pm- 4-6pm

ICSV22 – Walks and visits in Florence 5 Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 5. BASILICA DI SANTA designed part of the Piazza MARIA NOVELLA facade. 5 minutes walk The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic and early : , Brunelleschi, Giotto, Ghirlandaio.

Mon-Sat 9am – 5pm Sun 12am- 5pm

6. OFFICINA Since 1612 each pharmaceutical product Via della Scala 16 FARMACEUTICA SANTA produced here has had a peculiar story, 5 minutes walk such as the Cologne and the Pot pourri, MARIA NOVELLA two of the company’s unique products.

Mon-Sun 9am – 8pm

7. GALLERIA Famous for its sculptures by the great Via Ricasoli 58/60 Renaissance artist Michelangelo and in 10 minutes walk DELL’ACCADEMIA particular for his magnificent statue of .

Tue-Sun 8:15am – 6:50pm Mon closed

8. MUSEO DI SAN MARCO The is especially famous for Piazza San Marco the of Fra’ Angelico, one of 10 minutes walk the great artists of the Renaissance, who decorated large parts of the convent with frescoes extensive parts of the convent.

Mon-Fri 8:15am – 1:50pm Sat -Sun 8:15am- 4:50pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 9. CHIOSTRO DELLO This small cloister forms the entrance to Via Cavour 69 SCALZO the chapel of the Confraternity of the 10 minutes walk Disciplinati of St . From 1509 to 1526, painted the walls with frescoes depicting Scenes from the life of St John the Baptist and the Virtues, except for two episodes which were painted by .

Mon- Thu 8:15am - 1:50pm Sat, Sun 8:15am - 1:50pm Fri closed

10. CENACOLO DI SANTA The Museum occupies part of the former Via XXVII Aprile 1 APOLLONIA Benedictine convent of Sant'Apollonia, 10 minutes walk founded in 1339. Around 1447 Andrea del Castagno decorated the end wall of the refectory with scenes of the Last Supper , the Crucifixion , Deposition and Resurrection .

Daily 8:15am - 1:50pm

11. MUSEO DI STORIA The Paleontology section is mostly Via Giorgio la Pira 4 NATURALE dedicated to Italian fossil mammals, 10 minutes walk collected during over two centuries and for which the Museum has gained a worldwide renown. The mineralogical collections, originating from the first half of the XVI century, under the patronage of the Medici family, make Florence's Museum of Mineralogy the most important in .

Mon-Fri 9.00am – 1.00pm Sat -Sun 10.00am- 6.00pm Wed closed

12. OPIFICIO DELLE PIETRE Museum displaying marvelous and Via Alfani 78 DURE historical examples of “pietre 10 minutes walk dure”, inlaid semi-precious stone artifacts.

Mon -Sat 8:15am-2.00pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue

13. MUSEO Museum hosting important Etruscan, Piazza Santissima Annunziata 9b ARCHEOLOGICO Roman and Greek collections. 15 minutes walk

Tue-Fri 8:30 am – 7:00pm Mon, Sat, Sun 8:30am- 2:00pm

14. BASILICA SANTISSIMA Church with a famous cloister (Chiostrino Piazza Santissima Annunziata

ANNUNZIATA dei Voti) with artworks designed by 15 minutes walk and painted by , , Andrea del Sarto…

The (Hospital of the Innocents) by Filippo Brunelleschi is situated next to the church.

Mon-Sun 7:30-12:30am – 4-6:30pm

15. PALAZZO MEDICI Palace with permanent and temporary Via Cavour 3

RICCARDI exinitions. In the frescoes 10 minutes walk by the Renaissance master : the famous Journey of the Magi

to .

Mon-Sun 8am – 6pm Wed closed

16. CAPPELLE MEDICEE The Medici were built as Piazza degli Aldobrandini 6 extensions of Brunelleschi's San Lorenzo 5 minutes walk church, with the purpose of celebrating

the Medici family. The Sagrestia Nuova,

(New Sacristy), was designed

by Michelangelo.

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 1:50pm 2nd Sunday each month closed

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 17. BASILICA SAN The church is part of a larger monastic Piazza San Lorenzo LORENZO complex that contains other important 5 minutes walk architectural and artistic works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi, with interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the by Michelangelo.

Mon-Sat 10am – 5pm Sun 1:30- 5:30pm

18. CHIESA DI On the ground floor of the square plan Via dell’Arte della Lana building there are 13th-century arches 10 minutes walk originally forming the Loggia of the Grain market. The facades held 14 architecturally designed external niches, representing Corporations.

Church Tue-Sun 10am – 5pm Museum Mon 10am – 5pm 19. MUSEO DI PALAZZO The Palazzo, erected in the second half Via Porta Rossa 13 DAVANZATI of the 14th century was the residence of 10 minutes walk the Davizzi family, wealthy merchants and bankers, now it houses the Museum of the Old Florentine House.

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 1:50pm 2nd Sunday each month closed

20. E Symbol of civic power and administrative center of Florence for over seven 15 minutes walk th centuries. Built at the turn of the 14 century to house the city’s supreme governing bodies, Prior of Arts and Gonfalonier of Justice.

The adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi hosts many famous statues, such as the bronze of by .

Mon-Sun 9am – 7pm Thu 9am- 2pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 21. MUSEO GUCCI The museum charts Gucci’s remarkable Piazza della Signoria 90-year history, from its beginnings 15 minutes walk when founder Guccio Gucci made his name as a purveyor of finest quality leather accessories, to its present status.

Mon-Sun 10am – 8pm Thu 10am- 11pm

22. BASILICA DI SANTA The Basilica, the largest Franciscan CROCE church in the world, is the burial place of 20 minutes walk some of the most illustrious , such as Michelangelo, , Machiavelli, Foscolo, Rossini. Famous also for the two chapels decorated with frescoes by Giotto.

Mon-Sat 9:30am – 5pm Sun 2- 5pm

23. The Museo Galileo is one of the Piazza dei Giudici foremost international institutions in the 15 minutes walk History of Science It houses the only surviving instruments designed and built by Galileo himself. The most important are two original telescopes and the objective lens of the telescope with which Galileo discovered ’s moons.

Mon-Sun 9:30am – 6pm Tue 9:30am- 1pm

24. GALLERIA DEGLI It is one of the oldest and most famous Piazzale degli Uffizi 6 art of the world. 15 minutes walk The Gallery houses many masterpieces of famous painters, displayed in chronological order.

Tue-Sun 8:15am – 6:50pm Mon closed

ICSV22 – Florentine walks and visits 10 Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 25. MUSEO NAZIONALE The palace was built in 1261 to house Via del Proconsolo 4 DEL first the the highest magistrate of the 15 minutes walk FlorenceCity Council, “Capitano del Popolo” and later the “Podestà”. The museum houses masterpieces, such as the and the (Pitti ) by Michelangelo and the David by Donatello.

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 2pm

26. MUSEO HORNE The museum, containing a collection Via dei Benci 6 donated to the city of Florence by the 20 minutes walk English art historian and collector Herbert P. Horne, is located in a fifteenth-century palace. In the collection, works by Giotto, , , as well as antique furniture and domestic objects.

Mon-Sat 9am – 1pm

27. CASA DI DANTE Dante`s house, now a museum, was Via Santa Margherita 1 opened to the public in 1994. 15 minutes walk

The museum is arranged on three floors according to the three most important stages in Dante’s life.

Mon-Sun 10am – 6pm

28. The building was a property owned (but Via Ghibellina 70 never occupied) by Michelangelo, left to 20 minutes walk his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti.

Its collections include two of Michelangelo's earliest sculptures, the Madonna of the Steps and the Battle of the Centaurs.

Mon-Sun 10am – 5pm Tue closed

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 29. CHIESA DI OGNISSANTI The artists Botticelli (who is buried in the Piazza Ognissanti 42 church) and Ghirlandaio worked at 10 minutes walk Ognissanti in the 15th century. In the refectory, The Last Supper (1480), a famous large by Domenico Ghirlandaio Is on show.

Mon-Sat 9 – 12:30am Fri closed Sun 9-10am 4-7:30pm

30. MUSEO DEL Dedicated to the Italian art of the 20th Piazza Santa Maria Novella 10 NOVECENTO century, the museum exhibits a part of 5 minutes walk Florence’s collections, as well as the artworks and documents related to the last decades, granted on a free loan by artists, collectors and authorities, who have generously supported the birth of this new institution.

Mon, Tue, Wed 10am – 9pm Thu 10am – 2pm

Fri 10am – 11pm Sat, Sun 10am – 9pm 31. MUSEO FERRAGAMO The museum which shows the history Piazza Santa Trinita 5/R offamous the brand, is located in the historic 10 minutes walk centre cal of Florence, in Palazzo Spini Ferroni. It has also been the Ferragamo company’s headquarters since 1938.

Mon-Sun 10am – 7:30pm

32. MUSEO MARINO The museum houses 182 works of art by Piazza San Pancrazio MARINI Marino Marini (1901-1980): sculptures, 10 minutes walk paintings, drawings and engravings. A large equestrian sculpture from stands at the center of the former liturgical space and is illuminated by natural light coming from the great absidal window.

Mon 10am – 5pm Wed-Sat 10am – 5pm Tue, Sun closed

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 33. MERCATO CENTRALE The market was built in the period when Piazza del Mercato Centrale Florence was the of Italy (late 5 minutes walk nineteenth century). It was designed by Giovanni Mengoni, an architect who also conceived the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in . Inside the two-storey market, vendors sell various primary ingredients of Tuscan cuisine.

Mon-Sun 10am – 12pm

34. CHIESA DI SANTO The church was originally built in the Piazza Santo Stefano 5 STEFANO AL PONTE 12th century in Romanesque style with a (near ) polychrome marble façade. 15 minutes walk VECCHIO E MUSEO Diocesan Museum annex houses a panel with a Madonna by Giotto

Tue, Thu 3-5pm

35. PONTE VECCHIO The Old Bridge is a Medieval stone Ponte Vecchio closed-spandrel segmental arch 15 minutes walk bridge over the River with still working shops, built along it. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers.

36. CHIESA DI SANTA One of the oldest churches in Florence, Piazza Santa Felicita 3 FELICITA built in the XI century over a former 15 minutes walk Roman site. The passes through the façade of this church with a large window, covered by a thick gate, where the Medici family used to listen to the mass without being seen by the people staying at ground level. In a Chapel the famous Deposition by Pontormo.

Mon-Sun 8-12am – 4-6pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 37. VILLA BARDINI E Villa Bardini , built in 1641, is splendidly Via dei Bardi 1R GIARDINO positioned on a hill overlooking the Arno (or Costa San Giorgio 2) river. 20 minutes walk The Villa houses the museum of the famous painter Pietro Annigoni. The Giardino is an garden with wonderful views recently opened to the public.

Tue-Sun 10am – 5pm Mon closed

38. A vast Renaissance palace situated on Piazza Pitti 1 the south side of the River Arno, close to 20 minutes walk Ponte Vecchio. The Palatine Gallery, the main gallery of the Palazzo, contains a large ensemble of over 500 principally Renaissance paintings, including works by Raffaello, Tiziano, Perugino

Tue-Sun 8:15am – 6:50pm Mon closed 39. GIARDINO DI BOBOLI The park of is situated Piazza Pitti 1 right behind Pitti Palace. The gardens 20 minutes walk were originally designed for the Medici and they are one of the earliest examples of the Italian style Gardens which later inspired those of many European courts.

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 7:30pm

40. MUSEO DELLA The Section of Zoology '', Via Romana 17 SPECOLA founded by the Grand Duke Peter 20 minutes walk Leopold of Lorraine, was opened to the public in 1775, and is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. It holds the largest collection of anatomical waxworks in the world, manufactured between 1770 and 1850.

Tue-Sun 10:30am – 5:30pm Mon closed

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 41. BASILICA SANTO The current church was constructed over Piazza Santo Spirito SPIRITO the pre-existing ruins of the 13th century 20 minutes walk Augustinian priory , destroyed by a fire. Filippo Brunelleschi designed it in 1428. The chapels, contain a noteworthy amount of artworks. The Sacrestia houses Michelangelo's famous wooden .

Mon-Sat 9:30-12:30am 4- 5:30pm Sun 11:30-12:30am 4- 5:30pm Wed closed

42. CAPPELLA BRANCACCI The magnificent chapel in the Church Piazza del Carmine 14 CHIESA DEL CARMINE of Santa Maria del Carmine hosts one 20 minutes walk most famous and influential cycles of the Reinassance period. Masolino and Masaccio worked in the chapel and portions of the chapel were completed later by .

Mon-Sat 10am – 5pm Sun 1 – 5pm Tue closed

43. CHIESA SAN FREDIANO The name Cestello derives from Via di Cestello 4 IN CESTELLO the Cistercians who occupied the church 15 minutes walk in 1628. Previously the site had a 1450s church attached to the cloistered Carmelite convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Mon-Sat 9-11:30am – 4:30-5:30pm Sun 10-11:30am 5-6pm

44. GIARDINO DELLE The offers a great view of Viale Giuseppe Poggi 2 the city. In 1998, the garden gained a 40 minutes walk Japanese Shorai oasis, donated by Yasuo 20 minutes bus 12, 13 Kitayama and the Kodai-ji Zen temple by 15 minutes drive the Florence sister city of Kyoto. Since 2011 the garden hosts twelve sculptures by the Belgian artist Jean- Michel Folon.

Mon-Sun 9am – 8pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 45. PIAZZALE The famous view from this observation MICHELANGELO point overlooking the city has been 40 minutes walk reproduced on countless postcards and 20 minutes bus 12, 13 snapshots over the years. 15 minutes drive In the square, dedicated to Michelangelo, copies of some of his works found elsewhere in Florence are displaced: the David and the four allegories of the of San Lorenzo.

46. CHIESA DI SAN The church stands up one of the highest Via delle Porte Sante 34 MINIATO AL MONTE points in the city. It has been described 40 minutes walk as one of the finest Romanesque 20 minutes bus 12, 13 C1 D structures in and one of the 15 minutes drive most beautiful churches in Italy.

Mon-Sun 8am – 8pm

47. FORTE Forte Belvedere is the second and largest via San Leonardo, 1 fortress to be built in Florence. 30 minutes walk It was designed by Bernardo 20 minutes bus D, C1, 12, 13 Buontalenti and built between 1590 and 15 minutes drive 1595, to protect the Pitti Palace. used Forte Belvedere for his astronomical observations and after he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633, he lived not far from the fort in Villa Arcetri.

Only for Exibitions:

Tue-Sun 10am – 8pm Mon closed 48. CENACOLO ANDREA The Museum occupies a large part of the Via 16 DEL SARTO (CHIESA former Vallombrosan convent dedicated 20 minutes bus 6, 14, 20 to San Salvi and derives its name from 15 minutes driving SAN SALVI) the grandiose fresco in the refectory of the Last Supper by Andrea del Sarto, one of the masterpieces of Florentine Renaissance painting.

Tue-Sun 8:15am – 1:50pm Mon closed

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 49. MUSEO STIBBERT A villa with collections of European, Via Stibbert 26 Oriental, Islamic,Japanese arms and 30 minutes walk armour from the 15th to 19th century. 15 minutes bus 4 The famous cavalcade room is a grand hall filled with 14- 16th century Knights on horseback. The museum also has a delightful romantic English garden.

Mon, Tue, Wed 10am-2pm Fri, Sat, Sun 10am – pm Thu closed

50. CERTOSA GALLUZZO The charterhouse was founded in 1341 Via della Certosa 1 by the Florentine noble Niccolò Acciaioli. 30 minutes bus 36,37 In 1958 the monastery was taken over by Cistercian monks. In the cloister, frescoes by Pontormo. The charterhouse inspired Le Corbusier for his urban projects.

Guided tours Tue-Sat 9,10,11am – 3,4,5pm Sun 3,4,5pm

51. The Parco delle Cascine is a wide, Piazza Vittorio Veneto monumental and historical park in the 20 minutes walk city of Florence. The park covers an area of 160 hectares (395 acres). It has the shape of a long and narrow stripe, on the right band of the Arno river. It is extended from the City centre of Florence until the confluence with the Mugnone stream.

52. MUSEO Inside the Archeological area a r e the Fiesole,via Portigiani 1 ARCHEOLOGICO remains of Roman baths and the Roman 30 minutes bus 1,17 theater, in the Civic Museum many 20 minutes drive FIESOLE artifacts from both the Roman as well as Etruscan period.

Mon-Sun 10am – 7pm

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Place Highlights Address Florentine walk and visit opening times distance from ICSV22 venue 53. MUSEO BANDINI The museum houses some Florentine Fiesole via Duprè 1 th paintings from the 12th-14 centuries 30 minutes bus 1,17 and several terracotta works of art from 20 minutes drive Della Robbia. The collection includes works by Bernardo Daddi, , Nardo di Cione and .

Mon-Sun 10am – 7pm

54. VILLA PETRAIA A Villa Petraia is one of the most attractive Via della Petraia 40 CASTELLO of the (UNESCO heritage), 30 minutes bus 28,2 for its fine pictorial decoration and the 25 minutes drive beauty of its garden. The courtyard of the villa is decorated with frescoes by Volterrano and Cosimo Daddi. The famous bronze statue of Venus by , which originally stood above the fountain in the garden, is now exhibited inside.

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 7:30pm 55. VILLA REALE DI The Villa (UNESCO heritage), was the Via Castello 47 CASTELLO favourite residence of Cosimo de’ 30 minutes bus 2,28 Medici. Visitors may enjoy the splendid 25 minutes drive garden with its magnificent range of citrus and other rare plants, antique and Renaissance statues. Particularly fascinating is the Grotta, with animals carved in different types of stone and marble. The Villa is the home of the prestigious Crusca Academy since 1583, dedicated to the study of .

Mon-Sun 8:15am – 7:30pm

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Edited by ICSV22 Organizing Committee Thanks to Maria Grazia Capaccioli

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