Art and Culture

The Baptistry	Basilica di San Lorenzo	Basilica of Santacroce
Belltower by Giotto	Brancacci Chapel	Church of the Holy Annunciation
San Miniato al Monte	Santa Maria Novella	Holy Trinity ("Santa Trěnita")
Holy Spirit ("Santo Spirito")	Convent of San Marco	Orsanmichele
Duomo (Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore)

Churches

Basilica di San Lorenzo
The ancient church was consecrated in 393 by Ambrogio, bishop of Milan.
It assumed its Romanesque shape around the year 1000, was then rebuilt as it appears today by Brunelleschi around the middle of the fifteenth century, and was finished by his student Antonio Manetti.
Two pulpits by Donatello, an elegant marble tabernacle by Desiderio da Settignano, plus works by Bronzino, Sogliano, Filippo Lippi and Rosso Fiorentino make the basilica especially precious.
Beside the church stands the splendid Old Sacristy, designed by Brunelleschi in 1420 and decorated by Donatello, and also the New Sacristy, built by Michelangelo in 1524 as a funerary chapel for the Medici family.
The New Sacristy, together with the baroque Chapel of the Princes, planned by Matteo Nigetti, constitute the Museum of the Medici Chapels.
To the left of the church one finds the Medici-Laurenziani Library, planned by Michelangelo to conserve the copious collection of ancient manuscripts that belonged to the Medici.