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Florence Landmarks and Viewpoints

Florence Landmarks and Viewpoints

Florence · Italy

14 stops7.7 km1 h 33 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Florence’s defining churches, towers, museums, bridge, market, garden, and hilltop viewpoints. You will see the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Campanile di Giotto, and the Battistero di San Giovanni together before continuing through the city’s major cultural landmarks. The route combines art and architecture with the lively Mercato Centrale Firenze, the garden of Boboli, and elevated views from Piazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato al Monte. Expect a rewarding but demanding walk, with substantial length and uphill sections toward the final viewpoints.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

    Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

    A cathedral built to outdo Pisa and Siena, crowned by Brunelleschi’s extraordinary double-shell dome.

  2. Giotto's Campanile

    Giotto's Campanile

    A Gothic bell tower whose elegant marble skin conceals a difficult structural history.

  3. Florence Baptistery of St. John

    Florence Baptistery of St. John

    An uncertain eleventh-century baptistery where Florentine faith and civic life met

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Basilica di San Lorenzo

    Basilica di San Lorenzo

    A Medici church whose unfinished façade reveals five centuries of ambition, interruption, and reinvention.

  6. il Mercato Centrale Firenze

    il Mercato Centrale Firenze

    A nineteenth-century market by Giuseppe Mengoni, still organized around Tuscan ingredients and trade.

  7. Basilica di San Marco

    Basilica di San Marco

    A Medici-funded church where Angelico, Savonarola, and Renaissance Florence meet.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.