2024

The porticoed courtyard of the Basilica of S. Annunziata. The environment more recalls an atrium of an elegant palace that a cloister was conceived by the architect Michelozzo, the columns of the “courtyard” delimit with the cruise vaults sixteen lunettes of which only twelve are frescoed. To make the paintings, several artists were called, such as Alessio Baldovinetti, Cosimo Rosselli, Andrea del Sarto, Francebigio, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino.

At the beginning of the eighties of the fifteenth century he decided to leave Florence to move to Milan to the court of Ludovico il Moro. Leonardo brought with him a silver lira with whom he played and sang in front of the Milanese court, arousing the applause of all the bystanders (the man really knew how to do everything).

Mystery for the name of this street Via della Mosca “Fly Street” in Florence , with this article we are try to give a lite about this tiny street in downtown of Florence.

After the battle of Benevento (February 26, 1266) the Florentine Guelphs triumphed definitively and the party is enormously strengthened enough to occupy a very close -up place in the political life of the city. Thus the Order of Part Guelph is created established by Pope Clemente IV who granted his signs to the Guelph part who since then adopted the coat of arms: silver, in the eagle of red grabbed a natural dragon.

Between one invention and another, the volcanic mind of ….? you think ?! Of the great Leonardo da Vinci is obvious … to satisfy the requests of some Florentine spicy and scientific researchers of the time, our Leonardo invents and creates a crooked (glass object used for the distillation of solids), the base is round A little clutch, while going upwards, about 50 centimeters, forms a very long and thin neck which ends with a kind of small lip.

Not everyone knows that Lisa by Antonmaria Gherardini alias Mona Lisa, was born on June 15, 1479 in via Sguazza a crossbar of via Maggio. He married the tender age of 15, very normal for the time the silk merchant, Francesco di Bartolomeo of Zanobi del Giocondo. Our Mona Lisa (abbreviation of Madonna-Signora) has been made immortal, thanks to her portrait painted by Maestro Leonardo da Vinci, thus becoming the most famous woman in the world over time. And so it was that on June 15, 2013 the artist Franco Bini on the occasion of Monnalisa Day in collaboration with Associazione via Maggio placed a frame with the image of Mona Lisa and a plaque in memory below it inside.

Walking tours of Italy are one of the best ways to get to grips with the finer details of these historic treasures, but with so many to choose from, where do you start?