Famous Art Cities

Firenze, Siena, Pisa, San Gimignano, Volterra, Certaldo at your hands...

Florence boasts of an exceptional artistic heritage which is an exceptional witness to the city's cultural history. Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting, as well as Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, who revived architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio forebearers of the Renaissance, Ghiberti and Della Robbias , Filippo Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal geniuses of Leonardo and Michelangelo, lived and worked in Florence.

Their works, together with those of many other different generations of artists up to our century, are gathered in the several florentine museums. These include the Uffizi, the most celebrated gallery in the world, the Palatina Gallery with the paintings of the "Golden Age", the Bargello Tower with the sculptures of the Renaissance, the museum of San Marco with Fra Angelico's works, the Academy, the Chapels of the Medicis, Buonarroti' s House with the sculptures of Michelangelo as well as the Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, the Museum of Modern Art, the museum of the " Opera del Duomo", the museum of Silverware and the museum of "Precious Stones".

The city also boasts of great monuments which are landmarks of the florentine artistic culture: the Baptistry with its mosaics; the Cathedral with its sculptures, the medieval churches with their frescoes. There are also public as well as private palaces such as Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refectories and the "Certosa". In the Archeological Museum you will find plenty of documents of Etruscan civilization.

Pisa, famous all over the world for its Leaning Tower which dominates and exalts the magnificence of Piazza del Duomo, boasts a millenary history which mostly developed at the time of the Maritime Republics.

Siena is an international centre of culture, with a University dating back 750 years and great Istitutions as the Chigiana Music Accademy, the University for Foreigners, the "Accademia dei Fisiocritici", the "Accademia degli Intronati".

Certaldo, San Gimignano and Volterra, with their magnificant medieval ambience and the beautiful panoramic Tuscan landscape, complete your stay and will surely leave an everlasting memory.