BAGNO A RIPOLI

Ninfeo di Villa Vecchietti - Fonte della Fata Morgana
Situated in the park of Villa Vecchietti, the nymphaeum is a beautiful mannerist complex dating from the 16th century and attributed to Giambologna. The building is also known as Fonte della Fata Morgana.

Oratorio di Santa Caterina
The walls of the chapel commissioned by the Alberti family are decorated with frescoes attributed to the 14th-century Florentine school. The most accomplished parts were probably painted by Spinello Aretino.


BARBERINO VAL D`ELSA

Antiquarium di Sant`Appiano
The Antiquarium housed in the parish church of Sant`Appiano exposes archaeological finds from Etruscan and Roman times brought to light in the surroundings, including a collection of items from the Etruscan necropolis of San Martino ai Colli. In another room are medieval and Renaissance ceramics produced in the Florentine area.


BORGO SAN LORENZO

Museo della Civiltà Contadina di Casa d`Erci
The more than 1,500 pieces of the collection, which is part of the Mugello museum system, are divided into 28 sections and housed in an old farmhouse and its annexes. The museum includes also an archive and a library. The naturalistic-historical path outside of the museum illustrates the changes that have taken place in the local landscape and culture.

Museo della Manifattura Chini
The museum is housed in the beautiful Villa Pecori Giraldi and documents the activity of the Chini family in the ceramic branch. On display are drawings, decorations and ceramics.


CAMPI BISENZIO

Museo di Arte Sacra di San Donnino
The museum displays important works of art from the 14th and 15th centuries and a collection of ancient liturgical items. Visitors can also participate in a ceramics and painting workshop.


CASTELFIORENTINO

Museo di Arte Sacra Santa Verdiana
The Museum of Sacred Art of Santa Verdiana contains a painting on wood by Cimabue and Giotto, works by Taddeo Gaddi and other 14th- and 15th-century artists and a beautiful collection of sacred items and illuminated codes.

Raccolta Comunale d`Arte
The collection includes some frescoes and their sinopias from two monumental tabernacles by Benozzo Gozzoli situated in Castelfiorentino.


CERRETO GUIDI

Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio
Situated on the first floor of the Medicean Villa of Cerreto Guidi, the museum exhibits a collection of weapons from the 17th to the 19th century, a small collection of stuffed animals and two 17th-century mechanical clocks. In the villa are also the portraits of some members of the Medici family who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries and a collection of 17th-century tapestries made by the grand-ducal weaving factory.


CERTALDO

Casa del Boccaccio
Housed in Giovanni Boccaccio`s house, the museum is situated in Certaldo Alta, the historic nucleus of the town, which is reached by funicular. In the house are a fresco depicting the Tuscan poet and a library with critical essays and translations of Boccaccio`s works. The loggia commands a wonderful view over Valdelsa.

Museo Civico del Palazzo Pretorio
The façade of the building built between 1117 and 1164 is decorated with several coats of arms. On display are works by Pier Francesco Fiorentino and some frescoes for a tabernacle by Benozzo Gozzoli and his workshop. The museum exhibits also some finds from Etruscan and Roman times unearthed in the surroundings.

Museo di Arte Sacra
The Museum of Sacred Art is housed in a former Augustinian monastery and contains sacred works from the 12th to the 16th centuries and a beautiful 13th-century wooden crucifix.


DICOMANO

Scavi archeologici di Frascole
Poggio Frascole is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Mugello region and in Valdisieve. In the area are the remains of a medieval church and an imposing Etruscan structure, which probably was the fortified residence of an aristocratic rural family.


EMPOLI

Museo Civico Paleontologico
The museum, which is housed in Palazzo Ghibellino, exhibits fossils from various Tuscan localities. The exhibition sequence consists in various thematic rooms dedicated to earth sciences, geological eras, the evolution of the Mediterranean area and Valdarno basin and the appearance of human beings.

Museo della Collegiata di Sant`Andrea
The Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant`Andrea displays illuminated codes and works by Tuscan artists from the 14th and 15th centuries; the works come from the collegiate church and the churches in the Empoli area.


FIESOLE

Cappella di San Jacopo
The small museum housed in the ancient chapel of San Jacopo, which is decorated with a fresco attributed to Bicci di Lorenzo, comprises an extensive collection of gold liturgical objects from the 12th to the 20th century.

Museo Bandini
The museum exhibits works by Florentine and Tuscan artists from the 13th and 14th centuries and of some 15th-century masters, which formed the private collection of canon Angelo Maria Martini.

Museo della Fondazione Primo Conti Onlus
The foundation housed in the 15th-century Villa Le Coste, once the residence of the painter Primo Conti, is made up of a museum and an archive. The museum displays 150 drawings and more than 60 oil paintings by the artist.

Museo Missionario Francescano
The museum located in the monastery of San Francesco was created to house the Etruscan and Roman finds unearthed in the area around the monastery. Nowadays it hosts a collection of items collected by the missionaries. Of particular interest are the Egyptian and Chinese sections. The museum has also some stuffed birds. Outside of the museum are two functioning sundials.


FIGLINE VALDARNO

Antica Spezieria Spedale Serristori
The rooms of the Ancient Pharmacy of Serristori Hospital house an extensive collection of ceramics and glassware from the 12th to the 19th century, as well as a number of paintings, including the so-called "Ser Ristoro" painting on wood depicting the "Madonna and Child with Angels" dated 1399, the year of foundation of the hospital.

Museo della Civiltà Contadina
Each of the rooms that compose the Museum of Peasant Culture is devoted to a particular activity. The collection, which documents various aspects of rural life in Lower Valdarno, includes farming implements and everyday items from the 18th century to the 1960s. On display is an 18th-century animal-powered oil mill. The museum possesses also a herbarium with samples of local medicinal herbs.

Raccolta d`Arte Sacra della Collegiata di Santa Maria
The collection consists of paintings, including a painting on wood by Domenico Ghirlandaio, and sacred furnishings from the collegiate church of Figline Valdarno.


FLORENCE

Basilica di San Lorenzo
The basilica of San Lorenzo was built in the 4th century; then it was renovated in the 11th century and finally reconstructed in the 15th century on the basis of a design by Filippo Brunelleschi. The basilica contains paintings and sculptures by such important Italian artists as Donatello, Filippo Lippi, Bronzino and Rosso Fiorentino.

Battistero di San Giovanni
The baptistery is the oldest monument in Piazza San Giovanni. It was built in the 5th century, but its present form dates back to the 11th century. The mosaic in the dome was added two centuries later. The three bronze doors are by Andrea Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti. The baptistery contains also a funerary monument by Donatello and Michelozzo.

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
The Laurentian Library is considered the one of Michelangelo`s masterpieces. Opened in 1571, from a historic and artistic point of view is one of the most important libraries in the world.

Campanile di Giotto
Built between 1334 and 1359, the bell tower was designed by Giotto, Andrea Pisano and Francesco Talenti. The exterior sides are decorated with statues and bas-reliefs.

Cappella Brancacci
The walls of the Brancacci Chapel are decorated with frescoes by Masolino and Masaccio. Filippino Lippi completed them in the late 15th century.

Cappelle Medicee
The New Sacristy and Chapel of the Princes (the so-called Medici Chapels) were built to a design by Michelangelo. Inside the chapels are the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, the Magnificent, and his brother Giuliano, which is decorated with a statue of the Madonna and child, and the statues of Lorenzo Duke of Urbino and Giuliano Duke of Nemours, as well as those of Day, Night, Dawn and Dusk. The chapels house also a collection of Renaissance and baroque reliquaries.

Casa Buonarroti
Michelangelo bought the house between 1508 and 1514. On display are a collection of original drawings and early works by the great artist, as well as a collection of works of art of the Buonarroti family.

Casa Rodolfo Siviero
Built by architect Giuseppe Poggi, the building contains the collection of furniture, weapons, medals, archaeological finds, statues and paintings dating from various periods collected by Rodolfo Siviero that would otherwise have been lost during World War II.

Cenacolo del Ghirlandaio
The refectory of the convent of Ognissanti was built in 1488 and frescoed by Ghirlandaio. It contains a painting of the "Last Supper" and its sinopia, some ancient hand basins and an "Annunciation" dating from the early 15th century.

Cenacolo di San Salvi
The museum is located in the 16th-century monastery of San Salvi. In addition to a painting of the "Last Supper" by Andrea del Sarto, it houses some paintings by important Florentine and Tuscan artists and the funerary monument of San Giovanni Gualberto by Benedetto da Rovezzano.

Cenacolo di Sant`Apollonia
The refectory of the convent of Sant`Apollonia, which was converted into a museum in 1891, hosts many works by Andrea del Castagno.

Chiostro dello Scalzo
The cloister is frescoed with scenes from the life of John the Baptist by Andrea del Sarto. Built between 1509 and 1526, it owes its name to the fact that the bearer of the cross during processions walked `scalzo`, that is barefoot.

Collezione della Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell`Arte Roberto Longhi
The museum housed in Villa Il Tasso hosts some important works by Caravaggio and its followers, called the Caravaggeschi.

Complesso monumentale di Santa Croce
In addition to the tombs of many illustrious personages of Italy (from Michelangelo to Galileo, from Machiavelli to Rossini, etc.), the complex hosts also frescoes by Giotto, works by Cimabue and Donatello, the Pazzi Chapel designed by Brunelleschi, 19th-century sculptures, and works by Vasari, Verrocchio, Bronzino, Della Robbia and Ghiberti.

Cripta di Santa Reparata
Built in the 5th century and destroyed at the end of the 13th century, the church of Santa Reparata was the ancient cathedral of Florence. Its crypt has paleo-Christian mosaic floors and contains the remains of some frescoes and the tomb of Filippo Brunelleschi.

Cupola del Brunelleschi
The dome of Florence cathedral was built between 1418 and 1434, whereas the lantern, designed by Brunelleschi as the cathedral, was added in 1466. At the top of over 400 steps, a panoramic terrace allows an excellent view of the inner architectural structure of the dome.

Fondazione Romano nel Cenacolo di Santo Spirito
The foundation is housed in the ancient refectory of the monastery of Santo Spirito, which is decorated with frescoes of the "Crucifixion" and the "Last Supper" by Andrea Orcagna. The collection includes statues dating from pre-Roman times to the 16th century that the antiquarian Salvatore Romano donated to the city of Florence.

Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica - Planetario
Created in 1987, the collection of the Science and Technology Foundation consists of scientific instruments, naturalist collections, models of machines, industrial products and book collections of particular historical interest. The museum includes also a planetarium inaugurated in 2002.

Galleria d`Arte Moderna
The gallery exposes mainly works from the Tuscan figurative tradition from the 18th century to the period between the two world wars, including paintings by Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega.

Galleria degli Uffizi
The famous Florentine gallery has paintings by great Tuscan painters (Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo), as well as works by other Italian (Mantegna, Raphael, Caravaggio and Titian) and European artists. On display is also an important collection of ancient sculptures.

Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti
The museum hosts collections of costumes and accessories from the 18th century to the present day, as well as theatrical costumes and the funeral garments of Cosimo I de` Medici and Eleanor of Toledo.

Galleria dell`Accademia
The gallery has a collection of important sculptures by Michelangelo (including the famous "David"), paintings of the Florentine school from the 13th to the 16th century and a section dedicated to musical instruments.

Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Reali
The museum is housed in Palazzo Pitti and illustrates the interest of the Medici and Lorraine families in the arts. The collection includes mainly works from the 16th and 17th centuries by such important artists as Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Rubens and Velázquez. Adjoining to the gallery are the monumental apartments, which in the past were the residence of the Italian royal family.

Giardino di Boboli
Boboli Garden was originally realized in 1549 by Tribolo for Eleanor of Toledo and then was enlarged in the following centuries. It is one of the most significant examples of Italian garden and is scattered with fountains, grottoes and statues.

Museo Archeologico
The Archaeological Museum features one of the largest Egyptian section in Italy and a section dedicated to the collections of the Medici family and the Grand-Dukes, with Greek, Etruscan and Roman items. The collection includes the François vase, dating from the 6th century BC, the sarcophagus of Amazons with paintings from the 6th century BC and the Etruscan statues of the Chimera (6th-5th century BC) and of the Orator (1st century BC).

Museo Casa di Dante
The museum illustrates Dante`s life through his works and the vicissitudes of his family. The museum exhibits paintings, costumes, armours and coins, as well as several editions of the "Divine Comedy".

Museo degli Argenti
The museum is situated inside Palazzo Pitti, in what in the past was the summer apartment of the Tuscan Grand-Dukes. The collection includes reliquaries, ivories, ambers and semi-precious stones, as well as the jewels of the Electress Palatine, the treasure of Salzburg and jewellery from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Museo del Bigallo
Founded in 1904, the museum is housed in the Loggia del Bigallo, a 14th-century building opposite the Duomo of Florence, and contains works of art belonging to the Confraternity of Bigallo. Among the most significant works are the "Madonna of Mercy", a 14th century fresco that features of view of Florence, and a wooden crucifix by the Maestro del Bigallo.

Museo del Calcio
The museum inaugurated in the year 2000 exhibits a collection of memorabilia (jerseys, scarves, footballs and trophies), documents and publications relative to the world of football and documenting the victories of the Italian national team in the World Cup (1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006), the European Championships (1968) and the Olympic Games (1936). The museum has also an interesting multimedia section with photographs and TV footage.

Museo dell`Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
Founded in 1891, the museum was refurbished in 1999. It contains a collection of works coming from the Duomo, including works by Michelangelo, the "Cantorie" by Donatello and Luca della Robbia and the statues made by Arnolfo di Cambio for the original façade of the Cathedral. On display are also some statues from Giotto`s bell tower, the silver altar of the baptistery and the "Gate of Paradise" by Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Museo dell`Opificio delle Pietre Dure
The museum is divided into two sections: the first one, housed in the main room, is devoted to the craft of working precious stones at the time of the Medici and Lorraine families, whereas the second one covers the period after the unification of Italy. On display are stone pieces, workbenches, tools and inlay works with the purpose of illustrating the whole production process from the original idea to the finished work.

Museo della Casa Fiorentina Antica di Palazzo Davanzati
The museum is located in a mid-14th-century building acquired by the Davanzati family in 1578. The antiquarian Elia Volpi bought it at the beginning of the 20th century and furnished it so as to recreate a typical old Florentine home. The collections include sculptures, paintings, furniture and majolica and everyday items. A section of the museums is devoted to laces and embroideries.

Museo della Certosa
The monastery composes of the church of San Lorenzo (which was built in the 14th century and them remodelled two centuries later), decorated with paintings and frescoes; a large cloister with 66 terracotta busts by Giovanni della Robbia; the cells of the monks and the small cloister of the conversi (or lay brothers). Situated at the entrance of the Certosa, Palazzo Acciaioli houses an art gallery that exhibits a series of frescoes by Pontormo detached from the large cloister.

Museo della Fondazione Herbert Percy Horne
In 1911 the English collector Herbert Percy Horne bought and restored a building with the purpose of recreating an example of a noble Renaissance residence. The museum exposes a collection of paintings by Giotto, Simone Martini, Masaccio, Piero Lorenzetti, Filippo and Filippino Lippi, as well as sculptures, fabrics, furniture and ceramics.

Museo delle Carrozze
The museum is on the right-hand roundabout of Palazzo Pitti and contains a collection of carriages from the 18th and 19th centuries, most of which belonged to the Lorraine and Savoy families. Of particular interest are a richly decorated coach that belonged to the King of Naples Ferdinand II and three berlin coaches in painted and gilded sculpted wood made in Florence in 1818.

Museo delle Porcellane
The museum is housed in the so-called Casino del Cavaliere (or Horseman`s House), right at the centre of the rose garden situated at the top of Boboli Garden, and contains a collection of porcelain tableware used by the various reigning households who lived in Palazzo Pitti, from the Medici and the Lorraine to the Savoy. Of particular interest are the pieces made by the Real Fabbrica of Naples and the table service made by the Doccia factory, as well as the procelain items produced in Sevrès, Vienna and Meissen.

Museo di Arte e Storia Ebraica
The museum is housed in the Tempio Maggiore. Built in 1882, the Moresque-style building has an imposing façade and a copper-clad dome. The photographs on display illustrate several aspects of the life of the Jewish community and its relations with the city. The museum has also an extensive collection of fabrics, gold items, sacred furnishings and liturgical objects.

Museo di Orsanmichele
The museum is situated on the upper floors of the church of Orsanmichele and contains the original statues that formerly decorated the external façades of the church, which in the meantime have been replaced by copies. On display are the statues of the patron saints of the Florentine guilds, made by some of the most important Italian Renaissance artists, such as Ghiberti, Donatello and Verrocchio.

Museo di San Marco
The museum is housed in the most ancient part of the Dominican monastery situated in Piazza San Marco. In the 15th century the Medici family commissioned Michelozzo to enlarge the monastery. The works began in 1437 and went on until 1452. The rooms of the monastery are decorated with frescoes by Fra Giovanni Angelico, also known as Beato Angelico. The museum has also a collection of paintings on wood by Beato Angelico, a "Last Supper" by Ghirlandaio and several works by Fra Bartolomeo.

Museo di Storia Naturale - Sezione Botanica
The botanical section of the Museum of Natural History houses Italy`s most important herbarium, which contains the historical plant collections of Cesalpino, Micheli and Webb, a collection of plants made of wax and various 17th-century paintings depicting plants.

Museo di Storia Naturale - Sezione di Geologia e Paleontologia
The geological and paleontological section of the Museum of Natural History was opened in 1963 and contains collections of vertebrates, fossilised invertebrates, plants and rocks.

Museo di Storia Naturale - Sezione Mineralogia e Litologia
The mineralogical and lithological section of the Museum of Natural History contains about 40,000 samples of rocks and mineral and a collection of artistic objects made from various kinds of worked stones that once belonged to the Medici family.

Museo di Storia Naturale - Sezione Orto Botanico "Giardino dei Semplici"
The "Giardino dei Semplici", the botanical garden of Florence, was founded by Cosimo de` Medici in 1545. It consists of an arboretum and several hothouses and beds containing century-old trees, medicinal and food plants, palms, citrus fruit-trees, carnivorous plants, succulents and other exotic species.

Museo di Storia Naturale - Sezione Zoologica "La Specola"
"La Specola", the zoology section of the Museum of Natural History, was founded by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine and opened to the public in 1775. It contains the largest collection of anatomical waxes in the world and over 3 millions of animal specimens.

Museo Diocesano di Santo Stefano al Ponte
The Diocesan Museum of Santo Stefano al Ponte is housed in the former church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, which owes its name to the fact of being near Ponte Vecchio. Most of the sacred furnishings, paintings and gold artefacts come from the former Museo Arcivescovile. In the last few years a new section devoted to contemporary sacred art has been created.

Museo e Chiostri Monumentali di Santa Maria Novella
The museum displays gold artefacts, fabrics, embroideries and wooden sculptures. The frescoes that decorate the monumental cloisters are splendid examples of 14th- and 15th-century Florentine painting.

Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria
The Florentine Museum of Prehistory documents the history of mankind from the Stone Age to the time of the first written documents. In addition, it carries on an interesting educational programme.

Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
The Institute and Museum of the History of Science contains the Medici and Lorraine collections of scientific instruments dating from the 11th to the 19th century. Particularly interesting are the mathematical and astronomical instruments of the Renaissance and those that belonged to Galileo Galilei.

Museo Marino Marini
The museum is housed in the restored former church of San Pancrazio. On display are paintings, drawings, sculptures and engravings by Marino Marini, one of the most versatile artists in the 20th century.

Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Housed in the Palazzo del Bargello, the museum is devoted to Renaissance sculpture and exhibits works by all of the most important Florentine artists of the time, including Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo and Luca della Robbia. On display is also a collection of ivory and majolica items, medals, enamel artefacts, coins and weapons.

Museo Nazionale di Antropologia ed Etnologia - Sezione del Museo di Storia Naturale
The anthropology and ethnology section of the Museum of Natural History exposes items from pre-Columbian America, which in the past were part of the Medici collection, objects collected by James Cook in 1776 during his journey through the Pacific and other items from scientific expeditions made in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
The museum is housed in Palazzo Spini Ferroni, built in the 13th century. It exposes on a rotational basis over 10,000 models the designer Salvatore Ferragamo created between 1920 and 1960.

Museo Stefano Bardini
The museum exhibits paintings, sculptures, armours, musical instruments, chinaware, coins, medals and ancient furniture from Stefano Bardini`s collection, including paintings by Donatello and Pollaiolo and glazed terracotta artefacts by the school of the Della Robbia. The collection includes also some works from the streets of Florence, such as the statue of the wild boar by Tacca from the fountain of Porcellino (the one under the homonymous loggia is a copy).

Museo Stibbert
The house-museum designed by the owner, Frederick Stibbert, contains artistic items and everyday objects the collector and entrepreneur collected during his trips all over Europe, in the Islamic countries and in Eastern Asia, especially in Japan. Particularly interesting are the weapon and armour collections.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The palace was built in the 15th century for the Medici family, then in the 17th century the Riccardis had it renovated and enlarged. It contains the celebrated "Procession of the Magi" by Benozzo Gozzoli and the Galleria degli Specchi (Gallery of Mirrors), whose ceiling was frescoed by Luca Giordano.

Palazzo Vecchio - Monumental Rooms
The palace was built at the end of the 13th century as the seat of the so-called Piori delle Arti, the representatives of the main Florentine guilds (called "arti"), which played an important role in the government of the town. In 1540 Cosimo I de` Medici turned what in origin was a fortress-palace into the family residence of the grand dukes. In addition to the Salone dei Cinquecento, the study of Francis I and the frescoes that decorate the private chamber of Eleanor of Toledo and the Apartments of the Elements, sculptures by Verrocchio, Michelangelo and Donatello are to be admired in the palace.

Raccolta "Alberto della Ragione" - Collezioni del Novecento
The Genoese benefactor Alberto della Ragione donated the collection of masterpieces by 20th-century Italian artists to the City of Florence in 1970. On display are also works by De Pisis donated by the poet Aldo Palazzeschi and some paintings by Ottone Rosai.

Sala Capitolare Chiesa Santa Maria Maddalena de` Pazzi
The chapter house of the former Cistercian monastery that in the 17th century became a convent of Carmelites is decorated with an interesting "Crucifixion" by Perugino. The scene in which Jesus is taken from the cross and invites St. Bernard to worship the wound caused by the limb of the cross is set in a wonderful landscape inspired by the region around Lake Trasimeno.


FIRENZUOLA

Museo del Paesaggio Storico dell`Appennino
The museum is located in the Abbey of San Pietro in Moscheta, which was founded in 1034, and cis organised in two sections: the first one is devoted to the history of the abbey, whereas the second, called "Il paesaggio percepito" (The Perceived Landscape) is divided into five different scenes illustrating some historical periods that have been particularly significant for the use and modification of the land.

Museo della Pietra Serena
The Museum of Pietra Serena is devoted to the quarrying and working of pietra serena in the municipality of Firenzuola and is divided into three sections: the first contains the tools for working the stone, the second exhibits everyday objects and the third is devoted to ancient and modern artefacts.

Museo Storico Etnografico di Bruscoli
The museum is devoted to the history of Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and is organised in three sections: the first contains geo-archaeological finds unearthed during excavation programmes along an ancient (presumably Roman) road and in the castle of the Alberti counts, the second is devoted to the local peasant traditions and the third displays objects dating from World War II.


FUCECCHIO

Museo di Fucecchio
The museum of local history is divided into an archaeological section, which documents the history of human settlement in Fucecchio from prehistoric to modern times, an ornithological section devoted to the fauna of the Padule di Fucecchio area, and a section containing a collection of sacred art.


GAMBASSI TERME

Mostra Permanente sul Vetro
The exhibition presents the results of research into glass manufacture in Valdelsa. On display are tools and glass objects that have been found in Gambassi Terme area. The exhibition is part of a complex project including the visit to glass-making sites, the archaeology park of Germagnana - with the reconstruction of a 14th-century glassworks - and the Centro per la Documentazione della Tecnologia e la Produzione del Vetro Pre-Industriale (Centre for the Documentation of the Technology and Manufacture of Glass in the Pre-Industrial Age).


GREVE IN CHIANTI

Museo di Arte Sacra di San Francesco
The Museum of Sacred Art is housed in the former monastery of San Francesco and has an interesting collection of sculptures, paintings and liturgical furnishings dating from the 13th to the 19th century.


IMPRUNETA

Museo d`Arte Sacra
The Museum of Sacred Art exposes illuminated manuscripts, terracotta representations of the Madonna, a beautiful cross in silver leaf attributed to Ghiberti workshop, terracotta ceiling panels and a marble bas-relief representing the "Finding of the Image of the Madonna" that once was in the basilica of Impruneta. All the exhibited objects are part of the precious treasure created through centuries of devotion to the Madonna of Impruneta.


INCISA VALDARNO

Museo di Arte Sacra
The Museum of Sacred Art is housed in a 14th-century building called Oratorio del Crocifisso (Oratory of the Crucifix) and contains paintings and liturgical items from the churches scattered in the surrounding area.


LASTRA A SIGNA

Museo Vicariale di San Martino a Gangalandi
The museum is housed in the rooms adjoining the church of San Martino a Gangalandi. During the Renaissance the church was remodelled by Leon Battista Alberti, who is thought to have designed the apse. The museum contains a collection of gold items, paintings and fabrics from the local churches.


MONTAIONE

Mostra Permanente "Una Gerusalemme in Val d`Elsa. Storia e immagini del Sacro Monte di San Vivaldo"
Since it was built, in the 16th century, the complex of San Vivaldo has been used as an alternative place of pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The complex composes of 18 chapels decorated with scenes from the Passion of Christ. The old barn of the monastery houses an exhibition on the history of the sacred hill of San Vivaldo.

Museo Comunale
The Civic Museum exhibits archaeological finds, mineralogical and animal fossils from Montaione area and dating from the Palaeolithic to the late Middle Ages, as well as a collection of African objects donated to the museum by private collectors.


MONTELUPO FIORENTINO

Museo Archeologico e della Ceramica di Montelupo
Montelupo Museum of Archaeology and Ceramics is divided into three sections: the first one contains a collection of archaeological finds from Val di Pesa and Valdarno dating from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages, the second is devoted to ceramics production in Montelupo between the 13th and 16th centuries and the third exhibits ceramics items from the ancient Mediterranean civilisations dating from 13th century BC to 5th century AD.


MONTESPERTOLI

Museo della Pieve di San Piero in Mercato
The museum is housed in the rooms adjoining the 9th-century Romanesque church of San Piero in Mercato and displays sacred objects and works from the 14th and 15th centuries.

Museo della Vite e del Vino del Centro per la Cultura del Vino "I Lecci"
The Museum of Grapes and Wine is part of "I Lecci" Wine Culture Centre together with a conference centre and a wine cellar. A collection of photographs illustrate the wine-making process. In the section called "Laboratory of the senses" visitors are presented the sounds, smells and flavours of wine.


PALAZZUOLO SUL SENIO

Museo Archeologico Alto Mugello
The museum housed in the Palazzo dei Capitani illustrates life in the upper Lamone, Santerno and Senio valleys from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages. The prehistoric finds document the most important stages of human evolution. The museum has also a collection of pre-Roman and Roman finds, and some rooms are devoted to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Museo delle Genti di Montagna
Housed in the 14th-century Palazzo dei Capitani, the Museum of Mountain People contains tools and household objects typical of life and work in the Mugello region.


PELAGO

Museo della Civiltà Contadina e dell`Artigianato della Montagna
The Museum of Peasant Culture and Mountain Crafts is situated in an old school and contains a collection of implements, work tools and everyday objects from the early 19th century.

Raccolta d`Arte Sacra di San Clemente a Pelago
The collection of statues, paintings, altarpieces and sacred furnishings from the 13th to the 20th century coming from the local churches testify the deep-rooted religious sentiment among the local people.


REGGELLO

Museo "Masaccio" d`Arte Sacra
The museum is housed in the rooms adjoining to the church of Cascia and is dedicated to Masaccio, one of the preeminent representatives of the Florentine Renaissance. One of the rooms is entirely devoted to San Giovenale triptych, the first known painting by Masaccio, which is kept in the church adjacent to the museum. On display are also paintings, sculptures and liturgical items from the local churches.


RUFINA

Museo della Vite del Vino del Chianti Rufina
Chianti Rufina Museum of Grapes and Wine is housed in the wine cellars of the Villa di Poggio Reale and contains tools and implements for grape-growing and the production of wine, as well as a collection of photographs, videos and original documents on the history of wine-growing in Valdisieve and on the influence winemaking has had on the area.


SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA

Museo d`Arte Sacra
The museum housed in the church of Santa Maria del Gesù displays sculptures, paintings, sacred hangings and gold items from the churches in the surrounding area that have been deconsecrated or no longer exist.

Museo dell`Opera della Misericordia
The church of Santa Maria sul Prato houses a collection of artistic items belonging to the ancient Company of Mercy, including an interesting wooden crucifix by Simone Martini.


SCARPERIA

Centro di Documentazione Archeologica di Sant`Agata
The museum is organised in two sections. The first is devoted to prehistoric times and contains findings dating to the Lower Palaeolithic, whereas the second exhibits items from Etruscan, Roman, medieval and Renaissance times.

Mostra di Vita Artigiana e Contadina con Personaggi in Movimento
The moving figures created by a local craftsman reproduce scenes of everyday life in the Mugello region in the 1950s.

Museo dei Ferri Taglienti
The Museum of Cutting Implements is devoted to an apparently simple everyday object: the knife. It is divided into five sections devoted to materials, forms and construction, knife-making in Italy, Scarperia knife-makers and Scarperia knives. A knife-maker`s workshop has been reconstructed in the museum, where visitors can follow the whole knife production process.

Raccolta d`Arte Sacra Compagnia di San Jacopo a Sant`Agata
The museum is housed in the 16th-century oratory of San Jacopo. On display are works of art, terracotta artefacts and precious liturgical furnishings from the churches of the area.


SESTO FIORENTINO

Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia
Richard-Ginori Museum of the Doccia Factory is devoted to the artistic production of the Richard-Ginori Doccia factory from 17th century to the modern age and exposes wax, plaster, lead and sulphur models, white porcelain reproductions of Hellenistic works and ceramics produced by other manufactories between the late 19th and the early 20th century.

Tomba Etrusca "La Montagnola"
Discovered in 1959, the Montagnola Tomb is an excellently preserved example of Etruscan architecture. In proximity to the tomb dating back to the 7th century BC is also the Mula Tomb.


SIGNA

Museo della Paglia e dell`Intreccio
The museum is devoted to straw-weaving for the production of hats and other accessories and displays items from all over the world.


TAVARNELLE VAL DI PESA

Museo di Arte Sacra
The museum contains paintings, sacred hangings and liturgical furnishings and vestments from the 13th to the 18th century coming from Tavarnelle and its surroundings.

Museo "Emilio Ferrari" di Cultura Contadina
"Emilio Ferrari" Museum of Peasant Culture exhibits a collection of tools and implements documenting rural life in the Chianti region in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibited items were collected by engineer Emilio Ferrari.


VICCHIO

Museo Casa di Giotto
The house is situated in proximity to the ruins of the castle of Vespignano, where Giotto is thought to have been born in 1267. A multimedia sequence traces the life of the celebrated painter. A fresco painter`s workshop has been reconstructed in the museum.

Museo di Arte Sacra e Religiosità Popolare "Beato Angelico"
The museum is dedicated to Beato Angelico, the famous artist born in Vicchio who frescoed the church of San Marco in Florence. It was created to protect the sacred items and works of art coming from the churches in the Mugello region. On display are paintings, crosses, votive objects and liturgical furnishings and vestments.


VINCI

Casa Natale di Leonardo da Vinci
The museum is situated in the house where Leonardo is thought to have been born in 1452. It exhibits iconographical and educational material based on Leonardo`s manuscripts, as well as reproductions of some of his drawings depicting the Tuscan countryside and a map of Valdarno.

Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci
The museum attempts to trace the complex personality of Leonardo da Vinci as an artist, scientist and inventor. On display are reproductions of his paintings and facsimiles of his manuscripts. A section of the museum is devoted to the use of Leonardo`s image in art and the mass media. The collection includes also 60 models reconstructed from Leonardo`s designs, some of which really functioning.

Museo Leonardiano
The museum is devoted to Leonardo`s activity as an engineer and contains numerous models of machines - including the "helicopter", the flying machine and the self-propelled cart - presented with precise reference to Leonardo`s drawings and annotations.