Summarizing the sights of the Tuscan metropolis of Florence in a few sentences is impossible – the city is bursting with history, culture and Italian flair, but makes it easy for its visitors to drift. The bustling streets of the city center are lined with Renaissance art and architectural monuments, including the Duomo with its unique brick dome, from whose parapet you can enjoy a fantastic view of the city. For a visit to the Uffizi Gallery, it is advisable to have a little patience, which will be doubly and triply rewarded inside at the latest when you see paintings such as Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or da Vinci’s “The Annunciation”.
Attractions and sights
The magnificent Duomo with its massive Renaissance dome, the famous paintings of the Uffizi Gallery and Michelangelo's monumental David - Florence is bursting with cultural treasures.
Old Bridge
The Ponte Vecchio is a bridge that spans the Arno River in the Italian city of Florence. It is one of the most famous landmarks of the city and still one of the most important bridges in the city. It is a segmental arch bridge and is one of the ...
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
The lyricist Rainer Maria Rilke was once almost speechless when he saw the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. "I thought I was sinking in the great waves of an alien glory," he is said to have said later, expressing his impressions of the stone splendour of this ...
Piazza della Signoria
If you are visiting Florence for the first time, you cannot miss the Piazza della Signoria. It is one of the central squares of the city, around which many sights are gathered. The history of the piazza goes far.
Basilica di San Lorenzo
It is said of Florence that this city is something like "a splendid store of history". This is true, because crowned and uncrowned heads have left their impressive traces on both banks of the Arno over the centuries. The testimonies of their time can be admired in museums but also ...
Der Piazzale Michelangelo
Art has always dominated life in Florence. The city at the foot of green hills and on both sides of the Arno, which mostly ripples lazily through northern Tuscany from the Apennines, has achieved arguably everlasting fame thanks to the fortune of the Medici family. Florence is almost overloaded with ...
Basilika San Miniato al Monte
On a hill above Florence stands the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte. The church, which belongs to the Olivetan abbey of the same name, is one of the most beautiful places of worship in Italy. Above all, the façade of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte is ...
Boboli Garden
This beauty amidst the baroque evidence of a great history is ephemeral, but it sprouts the fresh green of a new beginning every spring. This is a very special gem among the sights of the city of Florence - the Boboli Garden in the shadow of the austere walls of ...
Basilica di Santa Croce
In Florence, scholars have long argued over which of these houses of worship on the banks of the Arno is the most important. For some, this is by no means the historic cathedral but rather the Basilica di Santa Croce. After all, numerous personalities found their last resting place in ...
Palazzo Pitti
Hardly any other family in European history has shaped the fortunes of a city to such an extent as the Medici. For three and a half centuries, the Medici offspring were said to have an insatiable hunger for power, and hardly anyone from this outrageously wealthy family shied away from ...