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Romantic Florence Andrea Tamburelli (dal sito ufficiale apt Firenze)
Great loves of the past and the places where they lived the famous pairs: a Route A tour in sign of love: we particularly romantic places in the city of Florence, the most poignant sights, the stories of love from the past, the places marked by great passions.
PONTE VECCHIO The story of this bridge is related to a young Florentine nobleman who lived in the early'200: Buondelmonte de 'Buondelmonti, young beautiful, elegant and cultured, was killed here a dagger blows while riding his white horse, a bard festival, on Easter Day of 1215. Buondelmonte had committed a sin of love: it was first in love with a girl from Casa Amidei, promising to marry her, then was pulled back just before the altar, with vague excuses. There was another course of half a woman, Beatrice Donati, and this is the Amidei revenge. The various families of Florence and then took their part, or with or with the Amidei Donati, and it is said that here originated from the deepest political divisions in Florence, which resulted in bloody strife between the two factions of the Guelphs and Ghibellines .
CHURCH OF DANTE In front of this church is said that Dante first met Beatrice and fell in love with it. The church is very old (dating back to 1032) and its interior is buried Beatrice Portinari (died in 1291) and his nurse Monna Tessa, she who inspired the father to Beatrice, the foundation of the hospital Santa Maria Nuova, still exists. Inside the church is also portrayed the encounter of Dante and Beatrice on the occasion of his death settecentenario her. The Church of Dante is located between the former Portinari in Via del Corso (now Palazzo Portinari Salviati, headquarters of the bank Tuscany) where the family lived Portinari and the Casa di Dante Alighieri, rebuilt at the corner, opposite the Torre della Castagna.
ARC OF PIZZICOTTI (Lungarno Acciaioli, corner of Via Tornabuoni / Ponte S. Trinita, in the Palazzo Spini Feroni) - Until the nineteenth century, before the lungarni were made in the present form, there was here an alley covered by an arch, called "the pizzicotti "why on Sunday, the boys are placed in this narrow passage and that the girls were waiting passed here to go to or return from Mass to the Church of Santa Trinita. The arch is no more.
A COW ON THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BALCONY OF PANTALONAIA At the time of construction of the dome by Brunelleschi (1419-1436) were erected wooden scaffolding and the side of where you open the Door of Mandorla overlooks the houses near the entrance of the current route of the Servants, and one of they lived a young and pretty stapler that, or to try a little 'light or to follow the course of work or look for men who worked there, often overlooked on the balcony overlooking the dome. The master of a stick that looks accomplices, was able to meet very soon - when the husband is absent Vispa girl to go to work - in the house of her. In addition to the damage, the joke, because the master Gagliardo thought it well to make a tangible sign, in memory of his company's head carved a bove with nice pair of horns, which turns his gaze straight to the house of the beautiful pantalonaia and her husband . In fact, along the Via dei Servi, from the piazza Santissima Annunziata, a winding aiding that, mo 'of the inclined plane, rising up to the dome to bring the cattle loads of material and, as a sign of gratitude towards these meek and humble animals that are struggling together with men, the head was carved veal.
SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI AND ROUND BRUNELLESCHI The unique stay in Italy, in 1709, Frederick IV, King of Denmark, had an extremely romantic: to meet again Mary Magdalene thirties, love never forgotten by the Danish King. You knew in 1692 in Lucca, during a journey of education of Frederick the two lovers but could not marry, since the reason for the state required that the king did not take married a Catholic. Federico convolò a wedding at home, and Mary Magdalene is closed convent in Florence: the past seventeen years later, the king returned to make the visit. It was then that Frederick, now a king, wanted to return to Tuscany and revise not only the places of his love but, above all, never forgotten monk thirties. The permit for a short interview was granted to the king after a long and insistent requests to the Archbishop of Florence and nobody ever knew what they told the king and sister. The convent in question was that of St. camaldolese Maria degli Angeli, deleted in 1810. The famous Round (today linguistico University of Florence) was designed by Brunelleschi and is located in Via degli Alfani, on the piazza Brunelleschi.