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Palazzo Bargello
Bargello (Italian: Bargello) is the oldest public building in Florence, which has housed a museum of sculpture since the XIX century - the National Museum of Bargello. In the Middle Ages, the building served as the residence of the Podesta and the City Council (Palazzo del Popolo), and for some time...
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Basilica of San Lorenzo
It is one of the largest and oldest churches in Florence. The first church was built here at the end of the IV century, then rebuilt in the XI century in the Romanesque style.
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Medici Chapel
I don't even know how to rate. The fact is that the main thing - the interior - I have not seen. It was still closed at 9 am, and when we returned at 4 pm it was already closed.
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5 years ago
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
The basilica was built during the XIV-XV centuries, becoming the first large basilica in Florence, later - the Dominican Church of the city. The building combines elements of Gothic and early Renaissance architecture, inside it is decorated with numerous frescoes.
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Santissima Annunziata Square
The Church of Santissima Annunziata, built in 1250 by the Order of Servites (Servants of Mary), is considered the center of Santissima Annunziata Square. This basilica received its current appearance in 1444 - 1477, undergoing reconstruction under the leadership of Michelozzo and Leon Battista Alber...
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Santa Croce Square
Of course, the temple is the main object of the square. But there is much more interesting. Next to the temple is a large monument of Dante made of white marble. Once the Florentines drove him out of the city, and now glorify him.
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Giotto's Bell Tower
The bell tower is named after its first author, Giotto di Bondone. He designed and built the first tier. Later, construction was continued by Andrea Pisano and Francesco Talenti.
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5 years ago
Masterpiece
The most famous work of Benvenuto Cellini as a sculptor and the only original among all the sculptures of the Lancia loggia. From morning till night, summer and winter there are always tourists.
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5 years ago
Baptistery
This is a special building designed for the rite of Baptism (Baptista in Latin - Baptist). Its walls are completely decorated with white, green and black marble. Attention is drawn to the Gates of Paradise, which are composed of gilded plates, which depict biblical stories.
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6 years ago
Signoria Square
It is the site of the former government of the Florentine Republic and the center of many monuments. It is impossible to say what is more interesting - the Lancia loggia with many sculptures and, in particular, the famous Perseus Cellini; Palazzo Vecchio with no less famous David and Hercules; Fount...
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6 years ago
Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The Palazzo Medici Riccardi is a palace of the Medici family, built by the architect Michelozzo di Bartolomeo by order of Cosimo the Elder in 1444. This famous Florence landmark is one block from Piazza Duomo.
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6 years ago
Column of San Zanobi
Even in February there are many tourists in the square. I imagine what is happening here in the summer. Among the various temples, buildings, and landmarks, I noticed a small but interesting site near the Baptistery.
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6 years ago
Beautiful beach
Very clean water. Clean sand, gentle entrance to the water. There is an island in front, so there are almost no big waves. At the end of June - no jellyfish. I really liked that there is no trade like "Baklava honey !
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6 years ago
Precious ring
I went to the ringstrasse in two receptions, I didn't have time at once. Urania Palace, Ministry of War, Opera House, Parks Stadtpark, Burggarten, Volksgarten and Rathaus, Maria Theresa Square, Parliament, Burgtheater and University, museums, numerous sights - all on this famous Ring, and all want t...
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6 years ago
Judenplatz Square
During the Middle Ages, this square was the center of Jewish life in Vienna. Today, its central part is the Holocaust Memorial, created by sculptor Rachel Whiteridge. In the other part of the square is a monument to the German playwright Lessing.
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6 years ago
Ministry of War building
The monumental building with a 250-meter-long facade was erected in 1909-1913 by architect Ludwig Baumann to house the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of War. The building has nine courtyards, one of which, 40 meters long with a glass roof, was used as a riding school.
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6 years ago
Church of St. Barbara
Walking down Postgasse, I noticed the Ukrainian flag above the entrance to the building. It turned out to be one of the places in Vienna connected with Ukraine. The first temple on this site was built in 1423.
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6 years ago
Urania Palace
The Art Nouveau building was designed in 1910 by architect Max Fabiani to house a public educational center with an observatory. It was inaugurated by Emperor Franz Joseph I, as evidenced by the inscription on the facade.
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6 years ago
Trinity Orthodox Church
In 1781, Emperor Joseph II granted a permit to establish the Greek Orthodox community of the Holy Trinity. The temple was built in 1782-1787 by architect Peter Mollner. In 1856, an Austrian businessman of Greek descent, Georg Simon von Sina, brought the architect Theophilus von Hansen from Athens an...
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6 years ago
Monument to Johann Gutenberg
A monument to Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, is located in the center of Vienna, near St. Stephen's Cathedral. Johann Gutenberg, a master from Mainz, Germany, in 1440 invented a way to print books, typing from cast forms - letters.
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6 years ago
High bridge
The wooden bridge at this place is first mentioned in documents from 1295. From the 15th century it became stone. In 1725 the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk was built on the bridge.
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6 years ago
Church of the Minorites
The history of the church began with foreigners - barefoot Franciscan brothers who came to Vienna from Italy in the early thirteenth century at the invitation of the Austrian Duke Leopold VI.
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6 years ago
Monument to Mayor Liebenberg
Johann Andreas von Liebenberg was mayor of Vienna during the second Turkish invasion in 1683. He headed the defense of the city, personally supervised the construction of fortifications and the creation of defenders' wives.
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6 years ago
People's Theater
The Folk Theater was founded in 1889 on the initiative of the poet Ludwig Ansengruber and the industrialist Felix Fischer as a democratic alternative to the aristocratic Hofburg Theater.
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6 years ago
Monument to Emperor Joseph II
The model for the monument was the equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The author of the project is sculptor Franz Anton Sauner. He received an order in 1795 and in 1797 presented a project of the monument.
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