Firenze Trip Overview
Florence is full of esoteric symbols, magic sign that come from the past centuries, symbols that talk about people who believed in magic and communicated the one with the other through secret signs: esotericism, magic, alchemy.
The facades of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella will have their symbols revealed, necromancy stories near the Basilica Santa Croce, the palindrome of the Baptistery of Florence.
Here will be Pazzino dei Pazzi and the three flint shards from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day light up the traditional Explosion of the Cart in Florence.
We will analyse the arsenic poisoning and the death of the intellectual Pico della Mirandola in 1494, a very close friend of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was very fascinated by the kabbalah.
We will also meet Friar Girolamo Savonarola, the strictly religious Dominican hanged and burned at the stake in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria.
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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Starts: Firenze, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Florence is full of esoteric symbols, magic sign that come from the past centuries, symbols that talk about people who believed in magic and communicated the one with the other through secret signs: esotericism, magic, alchemy.
The facades of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella will have their symbols revealed, necromancy stories near the Basilica Santa Croce, the palindrome of the Baptistery of Florence.
Here will be Pazzino dei Pazzi and the three flint shards from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day light up the traditional Explosion of the Cart in Florence.
We will analyse the arsenic poisoning and the death of the intellectual Pico della Mirandola in 1494, a very close friend of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was very fascinated by the kabbalah.
We will also meet Friar Girolamo Savonarola, the strictly religious Dominican hanged and burned at the stake in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Duomo – Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Via della Canonica, 1 Piazza del Duomo, 50122, Florence Italy
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore was completed in 1434 and is the most important landmark in Florence, as well as being the fourth largest church in the world.
The typical Italian Gothic building, the Cathedral of Florence, is dedicated to “Santa Maria del Fiore”. The church was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio (c1245-1302) who considerably enlarged the existing religious structure. Finished around 1367, the Cathedral was completely covered by coloured marbles like the earlier Baptistery, except for the façade that remained unfinished and was terminated only in the 19th century.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Santa Croce, Santa Croce, Florence, Tuscany
Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence symbol of Italian faith and culture.
The Basilica of Santa Croce is located in the homonym square in Florence and it is one of the largest and most important Franciscan churches and realizations of the Gothic style in Italy, probably by Arnolfo di Cambio. Inside it are buried and remembered numerous Italian artists, writers and scientists from various historical periods, among which Ugo Foscolo, Gioacchino Rossini, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Galileo Galilei, Niccolò Machiavelli and Vittorio Alfieri. Here, many masterpieces of Florentine art have been made over the centuries and they have contributed to making very special this monument: first of all Giotto’s frescoes about St. Francis.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: Santa Maria Novella, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Tuscany
Santa Maria Novella church is known as the city’s first great basilica and the region’s Dominican church. It was designed by two Dominican friars, named Fra Sisto Fiorentino and Fra Ristoro da Campi. They started construction on the building in 1246, but it wasn’t completed until 1360, finishing at a similar time to the nearby Romanesque-Gothic bell tower and sacristy. The name ‘Santa Maria Novella’, translates to ‘new’ which is about the building being built on the site of the 9th-century location of Santa Maria delle Vigne. At that time of its original completion, however, only the lower section of the facade was finished, with a series of Tuscan Gothic arcades creating a truly magnificent finish.
