Museo Nazionale del Bargello
4 Via del Proconsolo, Centro Storico, Florence, 50122, Italy
Before this building held some of the world's finest Renaissance sculptures, it held prisoners.
Palazzo Davanzati
13 Via Porta Rossa, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
Want to know how a wealthy Florentine family actually lived in the fourteenth century? Not in a palazzo stuffed with Renaissance masterpieces, but in a house with painted parrots on the bedroom walls, a toilet on every floor, and an internal well system that brought water to each story — luxuries that most European nobles wouldn't enjoy for another two hundred years.
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze
Florence's town hall has been in continuous operation since 1299, making it one of the oldest functioning government buildings in the world.
Porta San Niccolo
Piazza Giuseppe Poggi, Centro Storico, Florence, 50125, Italy
Of the original medieval gates that pierced Florence's city walls, this is the only one that still stands at its full original height.
San Miniato al Monte
34 Via delle Porte Sante, Centro Storico, Florence, 50125, Italy
If Piazzale Michelangelo gives you the postcard view, San Miniato al Monte — perched just above it — gives you the spiritual one.
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