Florence Inferno

19/03/2020

https://www.florenceinferno.com/uffizi-gallery/The Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery) is an art museum in Florence and is one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the Western world.

The Uffizi Gallery has the world’s finest collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, particularly those of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculptures, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.

Discover the history of one of the most famous museum in the world and it most famous painting. Read about the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

13/03/2020

Today at 6pm (Friday 13), open your windows, get out on your balcony, and make yourselves heard!

Today at 6pm (Friday 13), grab an instrument (pots and pans will do!) and join in as all of Italy takes part in a 15-minute concert to raise spirits, organized by Flashmob Sonoro. Open your windows, get out on your balcony, and make yourselves heard!

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03/03/2020

The Gates of Paradise is the main gate of the Baptistry of Florence (Battistero di San Giovanni), located in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

The Gates of Paradise is the main gate of the Baptistry of Florence (Battistero di San Giovanni), located in front of the Cathedral. It is a masterpiece.

26/02/2020

The Boboli Gardens are one of the most important Italian gardens and a fantastic open-air museum that embraces another site of culture in Florence, the Pitti Palace.

More than a garden, more than just a “green lung” in Florence, this gorgeous park in the heart of Florence takes your breath away and brings to mind the splendor of the life of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

The Boboli Gardens (Pitti Palace, Florence) were designed and built by Florentine architects such as Bartolomeo Ammannati and Bernardo Buontalenti

20/02/2020

The Primavera (Spring), also know as L’allegoria della primavera (The Allegory of Spring), is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, displayed in the Uffizi Museum in Florence.

Discover everything abouth La primavera, the masterpiece by Botticelli featured in the Uffizi Gallery (Florence) and mentioned by Dan Brown in his Inferno.

12/02/2020

The Medici Chapels consist of two structures that form part of the monumental complex of San Lorenzo, in Florence, and they house monuments that belonged to members of the Medici family.

The Church of San Lorenzo was the official church of the Medici when they lived as private residents in their palace in via Larga (now via Cavour), and later became their mausoleum until the extinction of their line.

Discover more about the Medici Chapels, in which are burried certain members of the Medici family mentioned by Robert Langdon in Dan Brown's Inferno.

23/01/2020

Beatrice was the main inspiration for Dante Alighieri‘s Vita Nuova and is commonly identified with the Beatrice who appears as one of his guides in his masterpiece La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).

DID BEATRICE REALLY EXIST?
The life of this famous woman is shrouded in mystery. ...

Beatrice was Dante’s true love: she was a real person, and Dante decided to use her as an important character in his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

15/01/2020

Giotto’s Campanile is the bell tower belonging to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It has a square base and is 84.70 meters tall 😍

Discover history and art of the Campanile di Giotto, the bell tower of the Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral or Duomo) in Florence, Italy.

13/12/2019

The dome that covers the Florence cathedral (the church of Santa Maria del Fiore) is known as Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome.

When it was designed, it was the largest dome in the world.

This immediately created problems as its size prevented the traditional method of construction. Its structure is a double shell supported by sturdy pillars.

Discover all about the Brunelleschi's dome, the Renaissance masterpiece by Filippo Brunelleschi that covers the Florence cathedral.

27/11/2019

Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) connects the city centre to the district of Oltrarno on the south bank of the river Arno. It is the first bridge ever built in Florence, surely one of the great icons of the city and one of the most famous bridges in the world.
It is best known today for the wooden-shuttered goldsmiths’ shops that line both sides of it, and for the Vasari Corridor that runs over it.

Find all the information about Ponte Vecchio, the legendary location in Florence quoted by Dan Brown in his 2013 Inferno novel.

13/11/2019

Giorgio Vasari was a very prolific and eclectic artist.
He was a brilliant polymath, and his expertise covered a number of different subjects, including writing, painting, and planning.

Read more about his extraordinary life!

Learn more about Giorgio Vasari, a great personality of Florence. He covered a number of different subjects, including writing, painting, and planning.

15/10/2019

Yestarday Richard Gere received the “Keys to the City” as a mark of his humanitarian efforts before visiting the Uffizi.

04/10/2019

The special temple of knowledge: the National Central Library of Florence!

The National Central Library of Florence is a national public library in Florence, the largest in Italy and one of most important in Europe.

19/09/2019

The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, the patron saint of Florence, is a religious building that stands in Piazza del Duomo, across from the Florence Cathedral and the Campanile di Giotto.
Its origins are in part mysterious.

The origins of the Baptistry of Florence (Battistero di San Giovanni) are in part mysterious. We know for sure that in that place in 1059...

10/09/2019

The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) is a historic library in Florence, built to the right of San Lorenzo Square, into a cloister of the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Find all the information about the Laurentian Library and its treasures mentioned by Dan Brown in his novel Inferno.

30/08/2019

Read our post and don't miss the best events occurring in florence over the next month!

Discover what to do in Florence, Italy, from Sunday, September 1, 2019, until Monday, September 30, 2019. Cinema, art, music, markets, and more events.

14/08/2019

Sandro Botticelli, whose original name was Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, was one of the greatest painters of the the Early Renaissance. Botticelli was the Florentine who created some of the most famous works of art in the world!

Life and masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine artist loved by the Medici family and mentioned in Dan Brown's novel Inferno.

09/08/2019

The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, the patron saint of Florence, is a religious building that stands in Piazza del Duomo, across from the Florence Cathedral and the Campanile di Giotto.
Its origins are in part mysterious...

The origins of the Baptistry of Florence (Battistero di San Giovanni) are in part mysterious. We know for sure that in that place in 1059...

12/07/2019

Santa Maria Novella is a Florentine church situated just across from the main railway station. Historically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and it is the main Dominican church in the city.

Discover more about Santa Maria Novella Church, which take her name from Santa Maria Novella train station, mentioned in Inferno by Dan Brown

26/06/2019

The Basilica of San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence), located in the centre town piazza of the same name, is one of the oldest churches in Florence. Its thousand-year history is tied to the Florentine Christian community. It is also closely connected to the triumphant rise to power of the Medici dynasty...

Discover more about the Basilica of San Lorenzo and its relation to the influential Medici family mentioned by Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s Inferno

13/06/2019

This building is formally called the Loggia della Signoria, but is often referred to as the Loggia dei Lanzi due to German mercenary guards (in Italian: Lanzichenecchi, corrupted to Lanzi)
The beautifully proportioned open gallery was designed in a late Gothic style, a clear precursor to the soon to be popular Renaissance style.

Fill all the inforamtion about the Loggia dei Lanzi and The Perseus Holding the Severed Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini in Florence, Italy.

05/06/2019

Today Florence Inferno Tour with our guide Mariagrazia :)

27/05/2019

The Bargello was used as a prison until 1786, when the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo abolished capital punishment. Consequently, from this time on, the Bargello no longer held executions. The Bargello next served as the headquarters of the Florentine police until 1859...

Discover everything about the Bargello in Florence, the old prison later become National Museum of Bargello mentioned in the Dan Brown's novel Inferno.

20/05/2019

The Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, one of the finest examples of Italian Gothic architecture, faces a vast piazza of the same name, which was built to complement it.

Discover more about the Basilica of Santa Croce, which faces the piazza where lies the statue of Dante mentioned by Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s Inferno

13/05/2019

Giotto’s Campanile is the bell tower belonging to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It has a square base and is 84.70 meters tall.

Discover history and art of the Campanile di Giotto, the bell tower of the Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral or Duomo) in Florence, Italy.

06/05/2019

The Duomo Cathedral 😍

An unusual of the Duomo cathedral

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Photo courtesy of Khadouj Filali
www.florenceisyou.com

24/04/2019

The Uffizi Gallery has the world’s finest collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, particularly those of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculptures, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints 😍

Discover the history of one of the most famous museum in the world and it most famous painting. Read about the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

19/04/2019

You won’t want to miss the Florentine Easter traditions, the most famous being the Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart), taking place in front of Basilica di S. Maria del Fiore, Piazza del Duomo on April 21.
In accordance with this traditional folkloric event, residents of Florence launch fireworks and detonators that are carried in an ancient wagon that is more than 500 years old.

Discover what to do in Florence, Italy, from Monday, April 1, 2019, until Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Cinema, art, music, markets, and more events.