Santa Croce district attractions

The sights, monuments, museums, and churches around Santa Croce in Florence

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The Giotto frescoes in Santa Croce church, Florence*** Santa Croce - This big ol' Franciscan barn of a church sports frescoes by Giotto, the tombs of many famous Tuscans—including Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Rossini—and, oddly enough, has one of the city's finest leather school in the back... Full Story

Michelangelo's Battle of the Centaurs in the Casa Buonarotti museumCasa Buonarotti - A house once owned by Michelangelo's nephew and his descendents, now filled with a few of his earliest, teenaged works. Not a hugely important sight, but an interesting window into the development of the artist as a young man... Full story

The Bargello sculpture museum in Florence** The Bargello - What the Uffizi is to painting, the Bargello is to sculpture. It's packed with Renaissance statues and carvings from Donatello, Michelangelo, Luca della Robbia, Giambologna, and more, all of it evocatively installed in the stony halls of the city's medieval prison... Full Story

An antique astrolabe at the Museo Galileo della Scienza in Florence* Galileo Museum - Wonderful, often-overlooked museum dedicated to the history of scientific inquiry, especially its early flowering in Renaissance Italy—which is to say, there's a whole lot of Galileo memorabilia, from the telescopes he used to discover the moons of Jupiter (which helped bolster his blasphemous theory that the Sun, not the earth, was at the center of our solar system; this got him in deep trouble with the Inquisition) to his shriveled middle finger (what would an Italian institution be without a holy relic of some sort?) A visit makes a great break from all that art... Full story

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