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 Trìnita")
Holy Spirit ("Santo Spirito")	Convent of San Marco	Orsanmichele
Duomo (Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore)

Churches

Holy Trinity ("Santa Trìnita")
The original church, built in the second half of the eleventeenth century by Vallombrosian monks, was very sombre and reflected the austerity of the order, founded in Florence in 1092 to restore the frugality of monastic rules.
At the beginning of the fourteenth cenutry the church was enlarged and transformed to the gothic style.
The facade, in hard stone ("pietra dura"), was built according to the plans of Buontalenti at the end of the sixteenth century.
Within is the Sassetti Chapel, with its fresco cycle showing the stories of Saint Francis of Assisi and a tablet showing the Adoration of the Shepherds by Domenico Ghirlandaio.