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What to see in Florence on foot

50 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.

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Florence is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 50 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, museums and galleries and public art — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Florence pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.

Landmarks3

  1. 1Caffè Concerto PaszkowskiPaszkowski is a Polish surname.
  2. 2Le Giubbe Rosse
  3. 3Porta della Mandorla

Historic Sites6

  1. 4Monumento ai Caduti delle Guerre d'Indipendenza
  2. 5Porta San Miniato
  3. 6Colonna di San Zanobi
  4. 7Monumento a Garibaldi
  5. 8Benvenuto Cellini
  6. 9Tabernacolo del Bargello

Museums & Galleries26

  1. 10Galleria dell'AccademiaThe Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze is an art museum in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy.
  2. 11Museo Stefano BardiniPalazzo Mozzi or Palazzo de' Mozzi is an early Renaissance palace, located at the end of the Piazza de' Mozzi that emerges from Ponte alle Grazie and leads straight to the palace where via San Niccolò becomes via de' Bardi in the Quartiere of Santo Spirito in the Oltrarno section of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
  3. 12Galleria PalatinaThe Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy.
  4. 13Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi
  5. 14Museo di Orsanmichele
  6. 15Gucci Museum
  7. 16Museo Archeologico Nazionale di FirenzeThe National Archaeological Museum of Florence is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy.
  8. 17Spedale degli InnocentiThe Ospedale degli Innocenti, also known in old Tuscan dialect as the Spedale degli Innocenti, is a historic building in Florence, Italy.
  9. 18Villa Bardini
  10. 19Fondazione Salvatore Romano
  11. 20Museo di San MarcoMuseo Nazionale di San Marco is an art museum housed in the monumental section of the medieval Dominican convent of San Marco dedicated to St Mark, situated on the present-day Piazza San Marco, in Florence, a region of Tuscany, Italy.
  12. 21Casa di Dante
  13. 22Palazzo StrozziPalazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.
  14. 23Casa GuidiCasa Guidi is a writer's house museum in the 15th-century patrician house in Piazza San Felice, 8, near the south end of the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.
  15. 24Cenacolo del Fuligno
  16. 25Museo nazionale di antropologia ed etnologia
  17. 26Museo delle porcellaneThe Porcelain Museum is located in the Casino del Cavaliere, one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy.
  18. 27Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della ScienzaMuseo Galileo is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery.
  19. 28Museo diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte
  20. 29Museo Marino Marini (Chiesa di San Pancrazio)
  21. 30Museo della Misericordia
  22. 31Museo Salvatore FerragamoThe Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence, Italy, is a fashion museum dedicated to the life and work of Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo and his eponymous company.
  23. 32Cenacolo Di Sant'ApolloniaSant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339, north of the center of Florence, in Italy.
  24. 33Museo di Santa Maria Novella
  25. 34Museo della Moda e del Costume
  26. 35Cappella BrancacciThe Brancacci Chapel is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy.

Public Art15

  1. 36David
  2. 37Colonna di San Felice
  3. 38Statua equestre di Cosimo
  4. 39Colonna della Giustizia
  5. 40Colonna dell’Abbondanza
  6. 41Colonna di Santa FelicitaThe Column of Santa Felicita is a monumental column with Corinthian capital standing in front of the church of Santa Felicita in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
  7. 42Croce al Trebbio
  8. 43Ercole uccide il centauro Nesso
  9. 44Il Ratto delle Sabine
  10. 45Menelao e Patroclo
  11. 46Neottolemo rapisce Polissena dalle braccia di Ecuba
  12. 47PerseoPerseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in the period 1545–1554.
  13. 48Fontana del PorcellinoThe Porcellino (transl. "Piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.
  14. 49Ercole e Caco
  15. 50Tabernacolo delle Fonticine

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