Who made what you're admiring, who were they up against, and which stories were invented later?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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In Florence, a work of art also tells of competition, a commission and a decision. These routes approach artists through the human stories of what they made, rather than a roll call of famous names. Walking connects places and people, asking who worked for whom and separating documented events from later additions to a work's story.
In “The Medici in San Lorenzo”: San Lorenzo's unfinished façade approaches Michelangelo through a project that never appeared as intended.
In “Oltrarno: from Pitti to the Carmine”: Michelangelo's crucifix and the punch at the Carmine bring works and human conflicts together on the Oltrarno walk.
In “Via de' Bardi and San Niccolò”: You start where the street was once called "Lousy", before it came to belong to the Bardi, bankers who lent money to a king of England and were never paid back.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Florence. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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You start where Dante was baptised and walk round the Baptistery: the carpenter who, according to a novella of the time, was talked into believing he was another man; the elm that, tradition says, flowered in January; and the 1401 contest that every contender told his own way.
You start where the street was once called "Lousy", before it came to belong to the Bardi, bankers who lent money to a king of England and were never paid back.
San Lorenzo's unfinished façade approaches Michelangelo through a project that never appeared as intended.
Michelangelo's crucifix and the punch at the Carmine bring works and human conflicts together on the Oltrarno walk.
Through Dante's streets you reach the Bargello, where a painter earned the nickname "of the Hanged Men" and Vasari got the wrong conspiracy.
Florence fits into short walks that grow longer as you keep looking. The centre is compact; crossing the Arno changes the perspective without changing the city.
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