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Book SynopsisBlue Guides: Complete Cultural Guides -- Completely updated, this edition contains superb plans and illustrations of painting, architecture and sculpture, and includes full coverage of several newly opened museums and palaces. Detailed coverage of where to stay and eat. The depth of information and quality of research make this book the best guide for the independent cultural traveller as well as for all students of art history, architecture and Italian culture. Ideal as an on-site guide as well as a desk resource. Illustrations to inform rather than to decorate: maps, diagrams, floor plans, architectural details and photographs -- "Often plagiarised by other guide writers, Blue Guides have always been a gold standard for accuracy and depth" Daily Telegraph. "Guide books in the grand tradition of thoroughness and objectivity" Georgia Review.
Table of ContentsHistorical Sketch; Twentieth-century Florence; The Florentine Renaissance; The Guide: Piazza della Signoria; The Duomo, Campanile and Baptistery; Between the Duomo and the Badia Fiorentina; The Bargello; Orsanmichele, Mercato Nuovo and Palazzo Davanzati; Galleria degli Uffizi and the Museo Galileo; Medici Florence, San Lorenzo and San Marco; Galleria dell'Accademia; Piazza Santissima Annunziata; Santa Maria Novella and its piazza; The district of Santa Croce; Santa Trinita and Via Tornabuoni; Sant'Ambrogio, Borgo degli Albizi and Borgo Pinti; Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens; The Oltrarno; Via Maggio; Casa Guidi; Santo Spirito; Santa Maria del Carmine and the Brancacci Chapel; San Frediano; The banks of the Arno; Ognissanti; Santa Felicita; The eastern Oltrarno; Outside Porta San Giorgio; The hill and church of San Miniato; Environs of Florence: Fiesole; Settignano and Ponte a Mensola; The Medici Villas of La Petraia and Castello; Museo Stibbert, Villa La Pietra and Villa Demidoff; Pian de' Giullari; Monteoliveto and Bellosguardo; Certosa del Galluzzo; Appendix; Practical information; Accommodation; Food and drink; Glossary; Index; Maps & plans: Florence atlas; Environs of Florence; Fiesole; Boboli Gardens; Duomo; Palazzo Pitti; Palazzo Vecchio; SS. Annunziata; S. Croce; S. Lorenzo; S. Marco; S. Maria Novella; S. Spirito; Uffizi.
