Fashion, jewels, perfumes: the luxury side of Florence

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Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• (Pass by)

  Built between 1296 and 1436, the main cathedral in town was, at its completion, the largest ever built. Nowadays it is considered the third in the world, after St. Peter in Rome and St.Paul in London. Indeed, the dome by Filippo Brunelleschi is still the largest brick dome ever built and - at the inner side - the widest frescoed surface worldwide (3600 sqm). The architectural style, influenced by the pristine design by Arnolfo di Cambio and later modified by Francesco Talent and Filippo Brunelleschi, marks the turning from a mature Gothic manner to the first Reinassance .

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Standing between Piazza San Giovanni and Piazza Duomo, this Romanesque building was completed around 1059. The exteriors are characterized by the alternation of white marble from Carrara and green "serpentine" from Prato, with three majestic bronze portals designed by Andrea Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti.

  Admission ticket free
• Piazza della Repubblica (Pass by)

  On the site of the ancient Roman "forum", densely built-on during the Medieval age, this square was created in the 19th century, when Florence became the Italian capital city for a few years (1865/1871). The so-called "Risanamento" (restoration) meant to introduce modern urbanist concepts in the dense Medieval texture of the town centre. Unfortunately, many important buildings of the past went lost during the demolitions.

  Admission ticket free
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  Open since 1995, the museum displays the history of the maison Salvatore Ferragamo, exposing its fundamental contributions in the fields of fashion, leatherwear, shoes making. The museum is composed by seven halls: two of them host a collection of the most distinguished creations of Ferragamo, while the other five welcome temporary thematic exhibitions.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• (Pass by)

  One of the symbols of Florence, well known all around the world, it was initially built in 1345, after the collapse of a previous bridge on the same site. Since 1442, the city authority ordered the local butchers to gather on the stores of Ponte Vecchio, for hygienic reasons. This, together with the construction of the "Vasarian Corridor" in 1565 - to connect safely Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, gave to Ponte Vecchio its characteristic and unique look of a "inhabited bridge".

  Admission ticket free

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