The whole Renaissance packed into a few walkable yards — beauty born from genius, ego, and rivalry. We walk you past the museum label to what really happened; a few things are ours.
5 experiences · 55 story stops · GPS audio · Downloadable narration
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55 stops
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1h
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$14.99 city pack
Every neighborhood has a story worth hearing.
Historic Center
"You're in Florence — the city everyone visits for the Renaissance. The dome, the David, the paintings. Almost nobody comes for the reason the Renaissance could afford to happen."
Duomo
"You're in Florence. A city small enough to cross on foot in twenty minutes, where a banker with no official title ran th..."
Duomo
"You're in Florence, standing in the middle of the greatest workshop the world ever ran."
San Lorenzo
"You're in the San Lorenzo quarter of Florence, in a churn of leather stalls and market noise, and somewhere near you sta..."
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Read a few of the places covered across Florence, then hear the complete stories on location in the app.
landmark
Listen, before you look. On this quiet Oltrarno lane, away from the crowds, if the workshop door is open you can sometimes hear it — a soft, rhythmic clack and thump, over and over. That's a hand loom.
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park
Behind the palace, the ground rises, and the whole hillside opens into the Boboli Gardens — avenues of clipped cypress, terraces cut into the slope, fountains, grottoes, statues tucked into every hedge, an amphitheater carved right into…
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landmark
This narrow lane, this tower house they call the Casa di Dante. I'll be honest with you — it's a reconstruction, a museum built where scholars think his family lived, not the actual walls he grew up in.
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landmark
You've reached the Accademia. Before you get to the famous one at the far end of the hall, look at the figures lining the way to him — huge, half-finished bodies that seem to be fighting their way out of raw blocks of stone.
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landmark
The tall tower rising beside the cathedral, banded in the same white, green, and pink marble, is Giotto's Campanile — the bell tower, nearly three hundred feet of it, one of the most decorated towers in Europe.
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park
On the corner of Piazza della Signoria, tucked beside the giants and the fountain, there's an older, quieter palace with a row of coats of arms across its front.
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No. Start whenever it suits you, pause for food or a detour, and resume later. Check the opening hours of any venue you personally plan to enter.
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No. Your purchase covers the Bad Historian audio experience. Transportation, food, and admission to third-party attractions are separate.
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