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J.K. ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO FLORENCE IV IN PARTNERSHIP WITH (2017) WELCOME Welcome or welcome back to Florence. My beloved city, where J.K. Place was started in 2003. I suggest you take a walk through this wonderful open-air museum, with the help of this small but detailed guide to the city’s must-sees, and do your best to get lost in the maze of alleys: you will discover a rainbow of scents, flavors and sights as you have never experienced before. Enjoy my beloved Firenze! Claudio Meli General Manager J.K. Place Firenze To Sylke, Sasha and Sophie, my muses J.K. LOUNGE RESTAURANT & BAR J.K. MASTER ROOM contents THEthe city CITY FlorenceFlorence districts districts map map 1210 DISTRICTSdistricts SSantaanta MariaMaria Novella Novella 1412 SanSan Lorenzo 2018 SanSan Giovanni 2624 SanSan Niccolò 3230 Santa Croce 38 Santa Croce 36 Santo Spirito 44 Santo Spirito 42 San Frediano 50 San Frediano 48 ITINERARIES itineraries Florence Jogging Track 54 Florence Jogging Track 54 Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten-Free restaurants 56 CinemasCinema & &Theatre Theatre 5856 NightlifeNightlife 6058 MarketsMarkets 6260 OutisideOutiside Florence Florence 6462 MADE TO MEASURE MADE IN ITALY Traveling tailor service available in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. Florence boutique Via dei Fossi 51/r Tel (+39) 055.5276598 www.sartoriavanni.com MADE TO MEASURE MADE IN ITALY Traveling tailor service available in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. Florence boutique Via dei Fossi 51/r Tel (+39) 055.5276598 www.sartoriavanni.com florence districts map SAN LORENZO SANTA CROCE SANTA MARIA SAN NOVELLA GIOVANNI ARNO RIVER SAN NICCOLÒ SANTO SAN SPIRITO FREDIANO florence districts map SAN LORENZO SANTA CROCE SANTA MARIA SAN NOVELLA GIOVANNI ARNO RIVER SAN NICCOLÒ SANTO SAN SPIRITO FREDIANO SANTA MARIA NOVELLA The neighborhood, which covers a vast portion of northwestern Florence, is named after Tuscany’s ma- jor Gothicstyle church and is a place of deep contrasts between, in the space of a few hundred meters, the el- egant Via Tornabuoni, the rustic Via Palazzuolo and the cosmopolitan train station area built around the famous modernist building by Giovanni Michelucci in the thir- ties. Art, fashion and lifestyle pour from every corner. A neighborhood to be discovered at every turn. 16 SANTA MARIA NOVELLA n Ce a Vi Piazza V V ia i ica Adua a Fa Lu Pan igi Alamanni enza ia V V Stazione ia Fi Santa Maria Novella ume e al Piaz ia Zannoni Me V Vi V Ce a Nazion a dell’Ariento Vi ia F aenza go Vi i a della Scala Lar Piazza Alinar Stazione io AntonV a S. 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The building’s main floor Bacarelli Antichità hosts major temporary exhibi- via dei Fossi 33/35r tions. The lower level, below ph. 055 215457 the courtyard, houses the Stro- The gallery, founded in 1923 zzina Center of Contemporary by Rizieri Bacarelli and now Culture, a platform for the pro- directed by his grandson Ric- duction of contemporary art cardo is one of the most pres- and culture. tigious one in Italy and offers Museo del Novecento a wide selection of furniture, piazza Santa Maria Novella, 10 objects of art, paintings and ph. 055 286132 sculptures from the renais- Devoted to Italian art of the sance to the end of eighteenth 1900s, the Twentieth-Century century. Museum showcases a selec- Moretti Gallery tion of about 300 works of art piazza degli Ottaviani, 17r in 15 rooms. An immersive art ph. 055 2654277 experience, including multi- The gallery opened in 1999 media facilities, audio devices with the exhibition From Ber- and video rooms. nardo Gaddi to Giorgio Vasari 18 SANTA MARIA NOVELLA and specializes in Early Art of a small temple, inside the Italian paintings, in particular chapel, the same size as the those by Tuscan artists. Holy Sepulcher of Jerusa- lem. PALACES, GARDENS Palazzo Antinori AND CHURCHES piazza Antinori, 3 ph. 055 2639685 Basilica of Santa Maria Novella A gem of Renaissance ar- piazza Santa Maria Novella chitecture, the fifty-room ph. 055 282187 building has been the pri- It is one of Tuscany’s major vate residence and office Gothic-style churches. The ex- of Marchesi Antinori since terior is the work of Fra Jacopo 1506. It was designed and Talenti and Leon Battista Al- built by Giuliano da Maiano berti, while the interior con- in 1461 and extended by tains masterpieces such as the Baccio d’Agnolo in 1543. Trinity by Masaccio and the Palazzo Corsini Crucifixby Giotto. via del Parione, 11 Basilica of Santa Trinita ph. 055 218994 piazza Santa Trinita, 3 The building’s exterior dec- ph. 055 216912 oration, carried out between Built in the 11th century by 1692 and 1700, expresses one the Vallombrosani monks in the of the highest moments of Romanesque style. The Sas- Florentine painting. Among setti Chapel houses a famous the painters employed by cycle of frescoes, the Stories of the Corsini family to deco- St. Francis of Assisi (1482-1485), rate it are Anton Domenico considered to be Domenico Gabbiani, Alessandro Gher- Ghirlandaio’s masterpiece. ardini and Pier Dandini. Rucellai Chapel Palazzo Ricasoli via della Spada piazza Goldoni, 2 ph. 055 216912 ph. 055 2399316 Adjacent the former church Purchased by the Ricasoli of San Pancrazio, stands this family in 1480, in 1565, the chapel designed by Leon palazzo and square facing Battista Alberti for the Ruccel- 16 santa maria novella the lai family, who entrusted the building hosted the wed- architect with the construction ding ceremony of Francesco SANTA MARIA NOVELLA 19 I de’ Medici and Giovanna of La Bottega di Corte Austria and was home to the via del Sole, 11 Ricasolis until the mid- 1700s. ph. 055 265 7635 Palazzo Rucellai Fabrics and decorative ac- via della Vigna Nuova, 18 cessories chosen in England, ph. 055 2645910 France, Italy and exquisitely The building, which now reinvented. houses the National Alinari Richard Ginori Museum of Photography, via dei Rondinelli, 17r was built between 1446 and ph. 055 210041 1451 by Bernardo Rossellino Founded in 1735 by the Mar- to the design of Leon Battista quis Carlo Ginori, Richard Alberti and commissioned Ginori’s fine porcelain ware is by Giovanni Rucellai. still the product of rules, can- ons and traditions rooted in a MADE school of excellent craftsman- IN FLORENCE ship and the expression of ex- ceptional talent, creativity, and Atelier C imagination. via de Fossi, 33r Sartoria Vanni ph. 055 289787 via dei Fossi, 51r Exclusive boutique embracing ph. 055 5276598 a world of style, from design Oliver Scavetta and Nicola to fashion.