Le Piagge
District of Florence
Tuscany - Italy

Brancacci Chapel

The Brancacci Chapel (in Italian, "Cappella dei Brancacci") is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance" for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period. Construction of the chapel was commissioned by Pietro Brancacci and begun in 1386. Public access is currently gained via the neighbouring convent, designed by Brunelleschi.

Located at 43.7677, 11.2436 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1420s paintings, 1480s paintings, Art museums and galleries in Florence, Renaissance art, Fresco paintings, Roman Catholic Church paintings, Paintings by Masaccio, Paintings by Filippino Lippi, 1386 establishments in Italy, Chapels in Florence, Religious museums in Italy

Florence Airport, Peretola

Florence Airport, Peretola (Italian: Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola) formerly Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is an airport located close to Florence, Italy, but administratively located within the territory of Sesto Fiorentino. It is one of two main airports in the Tuscany region, the other being Galileo Galilei International Airport near Pisa. It is a small airport, with a single runway and the main taxiway is situated at the end of runway 05, with an overshoot/holding area at the end of runway 23.

Located at 43.81, 11.2039 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Airports in Italy, Airports established in 1939, Transport in Florence, Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Italy

Meyer Children's Hospital

The Meyer Children Hospital (Italian: Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer) is a pediatric hospital located in Florence, Italy. The hospital is an official member of the European Network of Health Promoting Hospitals of the World Health Organization and the personnel are involved in prevention and health promotion programs for the Regional and National Health Departments.

Located at 43.8057, 11.2477 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hospitals established in 1884, Hospitals in Italy, Buildings and structures in Florence, Education in Florence, Anshen and Allen buildings

Santa Rosa, Florence

Santa Rosa Church is a tabernacle in the Italian city of Florence in the province of Tuscany.

Located at 43.7719, 11.2407 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Florence

Ponte Amerigo Vespucci

Ponte Amerigo Vespucci is a bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy and named after Florence-born explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It joins the Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci to the Lungarno Soderini. To the east is the Ponte alla Carraia. This bridge, like most of the other bridges over the Arno, is a reconstruction. Plans were made in 1908 to bridge this section of the Arno to service quartiere di San Frediano, but the plans were never realized.

Located at 43.772, 11.2425 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Bridges in Florence, Bridges completed in 1957, Modernist architecture in Italy

San Giovanni Battista, Highway A11

San Giovanni Battista or dell'Autostrada del Sole is a church in Florence, Italy. The church is formally named after John the Baptist but has also earned the name Church of the Freeway of the Sun for its location between autostrada del Sole (Freeway of the Sun) and the A11 Firenze-Mare highway. The design of the church is meant to reflect both modern and traditional church design.

Located at 43.8317, 11.1569 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Churches in Florence, Roman Catholic churches completed in 1963, Brutalist architecture in Italy

Teatro Comunale Florence

The Teatro Comunale di Firenze (or Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city. After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882.

Located at 43.775, 11.239 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Opera houses in Italy, Music venues completed in 1862, Theatres in Florence, Event venues established in 1862

Ognissanti, Florence

The Chiesa di Ognissanti (All-Saints Church) is a Franciscan church in Florence, Italy. Founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, the church was dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown.

Located at 43.7726, 11.2455 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Churches in Florence

Galluzzo

Galluzzo is a suburb of Florence, Italy, located in the southern extremity of the Florentine commune. It is known for the celebrated Carthusian monastery, the Galluzzo or Florence Charterhouse (Certosa di Firenze or Certosa del Galluzzo), which was founded in 1342 by Niccolò Acciaioli.

Located at 43.7333, 11.2167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Districts of Florence, Former municipalities of Tuscany

Badia a Settimo

The Badia a Settimo or Abbazia dei Santi Salvatore e Lorenzo a Settimo is a Cluniac Benedictine abbey in the comune of Scandicci, near Florence in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded in 1004. On 18 March 1236, by order of Pope Gregory IX, the monastery passed to the Cistercians of the abbey of Galgano Guidotti.

Located at 43.7805, 11.1448 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Monasteries in Tuscany, 1004 establishments in Italy

Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.

Located at 43.768, 11.2439 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Basilica churches in Florence, Carmelite monasteries in Italy, Monasteries in Tuscany, Carmelite churches, Baroque sites of Tuscany, Baroque architecture in Italy, Rococo architecture of Italy

San Frediano in Cestello

San Frediano in Cestello is a church in the Oltrarno section of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The name cestello derives from the Cistercians who occupied the church in 1628. Previously the site had a 1450s church attached to the cloistered Carmelite convent of Santa maria degli Angeli. In 1680-1689, the church was rebuilt on the designs of Gherardo Silvani and Giulio Cerutti. The imposing cupola and bell tower added in 1689 by Antonio Maria Ferri.

Located at 43.77, 11.244 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Florence, 1680s architecture

Peretola

Peretola is a suburb of Florence, Italy, located on the northern extremity of the Florentine commune. It belongs administratively to Quartiere 5 - Rifredi. It lend its name to the nearby international airport and is claimed as the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci.

Located at 43.7969, 11.1967 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Districts of Florence

Villa di Castello

The Villa di Castello is one of the Medici villas near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. Its ideal design appears in a lunette painted by Giusto Utens in 1599. The property was purchased by Lorenzo de'Medici in 1477 on the site of an existing building which he had rebuilt. In the villa he housed Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterpieces The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) and Primavera (painting).

Located at 43.8194, 11.2282 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Medici villas, Villas in Florence

Villa La Petraia

The Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a distinctive 19th century Belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence

Located at 43.8183, 11.2345 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Medici villas, Villas in Florence, Cultural landscapes, Villas in Tuscany, Landscape design history

Indiano Bridge

Indiano Bridge (Ponte all'Indiano in Italian) is the first earth-anchored cable-stayed bridge in the world. It is a bridge across the Arno River in Florence (near the Indian Monument). The bridge was built between 1972 and 1978 by Società C.M.F. S.p. A with architectural and urban architects Montemagni and Adriano Paolo Sica, and structural design engineer Fabrizio de Miranda.

Located at 43.79, 11.1962 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Bridges completed in 1977,

Villa di Quarto

The Villa di Quarto is a villa on via di Quarto in Florence, in the hilly zone at the foot of the Monte Morello. Quarto (fourth) is one of the toponyms relating to the Roman milestones, the most famous of which in this area is Sesto Fiorentino, of 45,000 inhabitants.

Located at 43.8186, 11.2416 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Villas in Florence, Gardens in Tuscany

Villa Romana prize

The Villa Romana Prize, which has been awarded since 1905, is the oldest German art prize. The Villa Romana was acquired in 1905 by Max Klinger for 60,000 gold liras. Klinger then arranged for the German Künstlerbund where artists stayed, in particular the scholars of the Villa Romana Prize. In 1906 in Leipzig, the Villa Romana club, founded by Klinger, earned the Künstlerhaus Villa Romana. In 1926 the club was re-established. The club changed status into a foundation, based in Düsseldorf.

Located at 43.7542, 11.2392 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Awards established in 1905, German art, Art awards, German awards

Firenze Rifredi railway station

Firenze Rifredi railway station, or Florence Rifredi railway station (Italian: Stazione di Firenze Rifredi), serves the city and comune of Florence, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. It is the third most important railway station in Florence, after Firenze Santa Maria Novella and Firenze Campo di Marte. It also forms part of the traditional Bologna–Florence railway, and the railways linking Florence with Prato, Pistoia, Lucca and Viareggio, and Pisa and Livorno, respectively.

Located at 43.8003, 11.2367 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Railway stations in Florence

Last Supper (Ghirlandaio)

The Last Supper (1480) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. It depicts Jesus and the Apostles during the Last Supper, with Judas sitting separately on the near side of the table, as is common in depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art. Ghirlandaio was already famous and was about to travel to Rome to paint the Sistine Chapel with other Florentine painters when he received the commission for this fresco.

Located at 43.7725, 11.2456 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Paintings depicting Jesus

Heating plant and main controls cabin, Florence

The Heating plant and Main controls cabin is a technical facilities building in Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in 1929. The complex is recognized as one of the masterpiece of Futurist architecture.

Located at 43.7817, 11.2449 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Railway stations in Florence, Italian fascist architecture, Futurist architecture

Tomba della Mula

The Tomba della Mula is a beehive tomb in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, central Italy, dating to the 7th century BC. The names derives from an ancient legend, according to which a golden she-mule had been buried in the fields around Florence. It is known since the 15th century, and is the largest pre-Italic dome tomb known in Italy. The structure has a diameter of some 9 meters. The tomb was declared a national monument in 1905.

Located at 43.8285, 11.2143 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Tuscany, Burial monuments and structures, Burials in Italy

Cimitero degli Allori

Cimitero degli Allori, Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori, (The Evangelical Cemetery of Laurels) is located in Florence, Italy, between 'Due Strade' and Galluzzo.

Located at 43.7473, 11.2303 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Cemeteries in Florence, 1860 establishments

Demidoff Chapel of San Donato

The Cappella Demidoff di San Donato, or Demidoff Chapel of San Donato, is today host of the Church of Christ in Florence, found on via San Donato. The church was formerly the private chapel of the Villa San Donato, that was built by the rich Russian noble, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato. It hosted a Russian Orthodox rites. The chaple recalls both the Pantheon in Rome, with its central oculus, and the villa Caprarola by Andrea Palladio.

Located at 43.7883, 11.2255 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Florence, Demidov family, Neoclassical architecture, Religious buildings completed in 1831

Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite

The church of Santa Elisabetta delle Convertite is an ancient church on via de' Serragli in Florence, Italy. The church was built in 1330 as part of a Monastery, founded in 1285 by a brother of Beata Umiliana de' Cerchi. The monastery was meant to house penitent prostitutes, who had decided to convert to a more moral lifestyle, as a plaque on via del Campuccio, on the wall of the former convent, declares. The monastery belonged to the third order of Franciscans.

Located at 43.7654, 11.2443 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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