Santa Maria Novella district attractions

The sights, monuments, museums, and churches around Santa Maria Novella in Florence

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Massaccio's Trinity in the church fo Santa Maria Novella, Florence** Santa Maria Novella - A church containing some of the seminal works of the early Renaissance, including Masaccio's Trinità fresco, the first use of true perspective in Western art... Full Story

The San Lorenzo leather market in Florence*** The San Lorenzo leather market - The streets around the Medici family church are now filled with a daily outdoor market of leather goods, T-shirts, and other excellent Florentine souvenirs. I get much of my holiday shopping done here (who doesn't appreciate a leather wallet or belt straight from Florence?)... Full Story

Mercato CentraleMercato Centrale - For great picnic pickings—not to mention photo ops—head to Florence's 19th-century covered food market, snuggled behind the outdoor stalls of the San Lorenzo leather market. It looks a bit like a old grandiose train station inside, all dingy glass and steel struts, but actually was purpose-designed to be a market in 1870–74... Full story

Michelangelo's Tomb of Giuliano in the Medici Cpahel of the Princes of Florence** Medici Chapels - Don't be put off by the tasteless "Chapel of the Princes" at the beginning—picture having all the money in the world, none of the renowned artistic taste of your famous ancestors, and a firm belief that, the more ostentatious and festooned with precious marbles your tomb, the greater your chances of getting into Heaven. It's what's in the basement that counts: three Medici tombs designed and carved by Michelangelo himself... Full story

The church of San Lorenzo in Florence* San Lorenzo - The Medici's home church was decorated with works by the family sculptor, Donatello, and its library's staircase is a wonderful example of Michelangelo's felicitous and playful architecture. A separate entrance by the back of the church leads to the "Chapel of the Princes," containing Medici tombs, several decorated with statues by Michelangelo... Full story

Detail of the Ghirlandaio frescoes in the church of Santa Trinita* Santa Trìnita - This was the first Gothic church in Florence, built in 1250–58, perhaps by Nicola Pisano (but likely by a lesser-known artist), and best-known for the richness of its Renaissance frescoes—especially the courtly works by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Sassetti Chapel—nominally of religious events, but populated by parades of contemporary figures (including Lorenzo de' Medici and his kids) in scenes reproducing faithfully the squares and streets of late 15th century Florence... Full story

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