Piazza del Duomo
Brunelleschi’s dome crowns Florence Cathedral and is the largest masonry dome in the world.
Event
Jacopo Veneziani — Questa non è una pipa
At Teatro Puccini, Jacopo Veneziani looks at illusion in art, from the Renaissance to René Magritte. The talk follows the ways artists challenge our eyes and what we think we see.
- Dates
- · 9:00 PM · Europe/Rome
Location: Teatro Puccini
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Make this event part of a Florence trip
Coming for Jacopo Veneziani — Questa non è una pipa? Give yourself time for Florence too. Plan a stay around the event, or add a day or two to a trip you already have in mind.
What else would you like to see?
Choose a few places that appeal to you, whether you stay for the event or make a longer trip of it.
Architecture
Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria took shape in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with the construction of the Palazzo dei Priori, renamed Palazzo Vecchio in the sixteenth century. It immediately became the city’s political centre and a space for civic life. The symbolic building, still home to Florence’s municipal government, offers several museum routes: the monumental apartments, the archaeological area with the remains of the Roman theatre, and the Tower of Arnolfo with its splendid panorama.
Art
Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery is one of the world’s most important museums, with an immense artistic heritage. An eighteenth-century reorganisation made it primarily a painting museum, with thousands of works from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. Other collections—arms, scientific instruments, archaeological finds and ancient and modern bronzes—were transferred elsewhere to establish new museums.
Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments – Pitti Palace
Inside Palazzo Pitti, the grand dukes’ paintings hang in several rows, arranged for decorative effect rather than by period or school.
Nature and gardens
Le Rampe
The Rampe formed part of the construction of Viale Michelangelo, climbing from the Arno towards the hillside to reinforce the slope. Giuseppe Poggi created this Neo-Mannerist ensemble as a succession of stairways, grottoes and water features. From above, water passes through the first three grottoes, then flows down through five more before gathering in the large basin at Porta San Niccolò.
Natural History Museum of the University of Florence – Giardino dei Semplici Botanical Garden
The Garden of Simples was founded in 1545 by Cosimo I de’ Medici as an academic garden for studying plants. Part of the university’s Natural History Museum, it retains the connection between botany and the tradition of medicinal herbs.