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Florence Free Tour
Feb 5, 2024

Four saints in Orsanmichele, legend.

A query regarding a collection of marble sculptures in an outside niche of the Orsanmichele cathedral that were created by Nanni di Banco. The austere layout of the sculptures resurrects elements of Flavs' Roman art, including the perforation method used to create the hair, which was influenced by emperor portraits. The consuls of the art of the stone masters and timber, of which he was a part, commissioned Banco to create the four sculptures of Nanni that were placed in a niche and were fashioned of Apuano marble between 1409 and 1417. Three marble blocks were used to create this group; the two to the viewer's right are carved as a single block on a marble semicircular platform that comprises the niche floor, in the hoof flanked by the corporation coats of all.

chesa santa maria sopra porta
Feb 3, 2024

Church of Santa Maria Sopra Porta

Recalling that in 1038, it was given the name Por "Santa Maria" and acquired the appellation "above Porta" due to its location at the southern entrance of the Carolingian fortifications. Here, in 1216, the combination marriage of Buondelmonte de 'Buondelmonti and reparata of Lambertuccio degli Amboi was required; however, the bride's rejection resulted in the customary partition of the city into two factions, subsequently referred to as Ghibellines and Guelphs. Additionally, this is the suggestion that Moscow's Lamberti would have given, using the well-known statement that the head made to persuade the Hamidii to assassinate Buondelmonte. Ghibeline families, including the Uberti, Arrighi, Fifanti, and Ambreans, really made up the majority of the parish's population.

Snake
Feb 2, 2024

Secret passage in Pitti Palace

Perhaps not everyone knows about the existence of a corridor that starts from Palazzo Pitti performes concludes near the Galileo Tribune in the Specola Museum. This architectural space was to be the "appendix" of the famous corridor of the "Prince" or Vasarian. We are talking about the so -called Pocciantini corridor, it was made by Pasquale Poccianti in 1820 to allow Ferdinand III to have a connection with the adjacent Palazzo Pitti, thus creating an uninterrupted route that allowed him to arrive at Palazzo Vecchio through the Vasarian corridor.

David Florence Free Tour
Feb 1, 2024

Accademia Gallery 2023, two million visitors

he Accademia Gallery closed its doors in 2023 after welcoming over two million visitors—2,013,974—a record never before attained by the public. This means that the magnificent David by Michelangelo, which has always been a popular focal point, is no longer packed with people. Not only does this location have "museums inside the museum" like the department of musical instruments and the gipsoteca, but they are scattered throughout every room.

Florence Free Tour
Jan 31, 2024

St. Appolinare in Florence its history

Piazza San Florence has altered several times over time, beginning with the Roman era, when the city's defenses were built here. If you walk in front of the Bargello Museum, you will notice a semi-circle on the street that marks the Roman tower unearthed by Annifa beneath the road surface. One of these little-known improvements is located just near to the Bargello Museum. We are discussing the church of S.Apollinare in its distinctive form, but it is a rather ordinary building. In truth, that little church was one of the twelve churches of the Priories of Florence, possibly built in the sixth century AD under the control of the Goths of Theodoric, and was dedicated to Apollinare, a Ravenna martyr of Syrian ancestry. The two notarial acts of January and February 1065 are dated back to the mid-twentieth century… "Vinea Sancti APPOLENARI" (the vineyards of S.Apollinare, at that time there were vineyards worked by the monks) and "Petium Terre Posite Extra Muros Civitatis Florentie Prope Ecclesiam Sancti Apollinaris" (request for land located outside the walls of the city of Florence near the church of Sant'Apollinare).

Florence free tour
Jan 30, 2024

Ancient refrigerator of Florence

Certainly since the mists of time food conservation has always been a fundamental if not primary element for human nutrition. So everything that could be useful in the use to slow down the deterioration and prevent those phenomena of proliferation of pathogens was very important. The most common systems were those of the salt, of clerk, of use of fresh environments but above all the use of ice. The difficulty of finding ice in hot periods developed a simple but not banal expedient, that is, the creation of the "refrigerators" of the time known as Ghiacciaie or "Diacciae" in Florentine. But many cities were not close to the mountains so something had to be devised immediate functionality.

Florence free tour
Jan 29, 2024

Best gelato makers of Florence and Tuscany

The best artisan ice cream shop in Tuscany is located in Florence, in Oltrarno, followed closely by another Florentine ice cream parlor, while on the third step of the podium are Sale Grosseto, Pisa, and San Gimignano: this is the map drawn up by Gambero Rosso in its guide to Gelaterias of Italy 2024. The whole ranking will be announced on March 24, in honor of Ice Cream Day, but in the meantime, the first advances of the eighth edition of the publication have been disclosed. The occasion was the Sigep of Rimini, one of our country's most prominent salons in the pastry and coffee world.

Florence free tour
Jan 28, 2024

San Zenobi miracle in Duomo square

According to tradition, on January 26, 429, the body of San Zanobi, bishop of Florence, was transferred from the Basilica of San Lorenzo to the Cathedral of Santa Reparata. However, along the way, near the north door of the baptistery, the saint's relic touched a dry elm, and despite the fact that it was full winter, the tree rejected.

Florence free tour
Jan 27, 2024

Carnival In Florence 2024

The Florence Carnival will begin on Saturday, January 27, with the Grand Ball at the Palazzo Vecchio, followed by a big parade in the center free to anyone. The 27-day program allows travelers to enter through the Cortile del Michelozzo. The masks, created by Florentine craftsmen using the papier-mâché processing technique, will be distributed here. Sters, a mask icon of the Florentine carnival developed in the eighteenth century by the artist Luigi Del Buono and rising to the "identity" of the territory, will greet those present. With him, several judicial figures will accompany persons in the presence, like the master of ceremony.