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Walk through Florence's shadowed streets on this self-guided Dark Mysteries and Legends tour, brought to you by the Trippy Tour Guide.
Discover the friar who burned the city's art and was burned in return, a ghost who has kept a window open for five hundred years, and a bride who clawed her way out of her own tomb.
Pass the hospital where a nurse has never stopped working, a palazzo window bricked shut as punishment for conspiracy, and a stone marking a deal made with the devil.
Visit the cathedral where a family was stabbed at Easter Mass, cross the bridge haunted by a murdered nobleman, and uncover the unsolved story of the Monster of Florence.
Finish by the Arno, where beauty and darkness have always shared the same light.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
The tour begins in front of the main gate of SICILY FOOD DA CHIARA shop at Piazza di San Marco.
The Tour ends infront of Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.
Itinerary
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1
A friar seized Florence from this quiet square. His bonfire consumed the city's art, its books, its mirrors. Florence applauded, then burned him in the same spot. The tour begins here.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Piazza Della Santissima Annunziata
Brunelleschi's perfect piazza hides two windows with opposite fates. One sealed forever after a conspiracy. One open for five centuries, kept that way by a ghost who made a promise and never broke it.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3
The oldest hospital in Florence was founded by Dante's Beatrice's father. Beneath it, tunnels moved bodies in secret. Above it, the ghost of its first nurse still walks the wards and refuses to leave.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4
One bricked-up window on this Renaissance facade is not a renovation. It is a punishment. A conspiracy against the Medici was plotted here. Cosimo found out. The window has never opened since.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Piazza del Duomo
An Easter Sunday assassination inside the cathedral. A lightning bolt that toppled the golden ball from Brunelleschi's dome. A demon's signature carved into the marble. The Duomo holds more than prayers.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6
Built to outshine the Medici by a family they had previously exiled, the Palazzo Strozzi nearly bankrupted its owner before he finished it. Someone died here under unclear circumstances. The courtyard still echoes at night.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7
In 1216, a broken engagement became a murder on Ponte Vecchio that split Florence into Guelphs and Ghibellines for decades. Dante blamed it for cursing the city. The families involved lived right here.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Ponte Santa Trinita
The Germans blew this bridge apart in 1944. Florence spent years recovering its stones from the Arno riverbed and rebuilt it exactly as it was. The head of Spring was missing for sixteen years before they found it in the silt.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9Ponte Vecchio
A secret elevated corridor runs above the goldsmith shops, built so the Medici never had to touch the street. Below it, the ghost of a murdered nobleman is said to walk the bridge where he died on his wedding morning.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10
One of Florence's last surviving medieval towers belonged to the family who ordered the murder that started decades of civil war. An armored knight is said to wander its courtyard in silence. The air goes still when he passes.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11Piazza della Signoria
Florence’s power square became a stage for punishment, where Pazzi conspirators were hanged and Savonarola burned on the same spot. A crude face and scorched stone still haunt the palace wall.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Piazza Santa Croce
Florence built Dante a grand tomb inside its most celebrated basilica. He is not in it. The city that sentenced him to be burned at the stake if he returned has been asking Ravenna for his bones ever since. Ravenna keeps saying no.
10 minutes • Admission ticket included
Additional info
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
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- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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