A Preview
"You're in Florence. A city small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes, where a banker with no official title ran the whole place for thirty years, where the greatest art museum on earth was built as an office block — and where they started a cathedral with a hole in the roof the size of a nine-story building, and just... hoped somebody would eventually figure out how to close it."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
Tour Stops
Follow the full Florence in a Mile route.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Galleria dell'Accademia — The David
- 3 Palazzo Medici Riccardi
- 4 The Duomo — Santa Maria del Fiore
- 5 The Baptistery of San Giovanni — The Gates of Paradise
- 6 Orsanmichele
- 7 Il Porcellino — Mercato Nuovo
- 8 Piazza della Signoria
- 9 Palazzo Vecchio
- 10 The Uffizi Gallery
- 11 Ponte Vecchio
- 12 The Reveal
Hear the full story at Introduction
This is just one of 12 stops on the Florence in a Mile tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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