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Florence Sacred Places Walk

Florence Sacred Places Walk

Florence · Italy

14 stops7.2 km1 h 26 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Florence’s sacred places, from the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Battistero di San Giovanni to historic churches across the city. Along the way, you will see different settings for worship, from grand basilicas to smaller churches with distinct architectural character. The route ends at the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, where the uphill walk adds a memorable final stop to this spiritual journey. Take this walk to experience how sacred buildings shape Florence’s streets, squares, and skyline.

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. Florence Baptistery of St. John

    Florence Baptistery of St. John

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

  3. Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore

    Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore

    A medieval Florentine church with a rebuilt Gothic body, a dangerous bell tower, and the legendary stone head called Berta.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

    Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

    A Dominican church where medieval geometry meets Alberti, Masaccio, and the birth of modern perspective.

  6. Basilica di San Lorenzo

    Basilica di San Lorenzo

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

  7. Basilica della Santissima Annunziata

    Basilica della Santissima Annunziata

    A Servite church where Michelozzo, Alberti, Andrea del Sarto, and Cellini 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.