Opera di Santa Croce Review

The basilica par excellence together with that of San Pietro.

Just wonderful!!!
Unmissable!!!!

Fabulous large square. Great place to relax with lunch, drink or coffee. Occasionally entertainment too.

Enter worthwhile, coincide with the festivities was a lucky, the nightlife of the plaza for young people, a place to consider

We did not get in but it was really joce from the outside

Beautiful works to discover in this church some of which still bear the stigmata of the floods of 1966

I could not enter either but it was a meeting date for the group. Externally magnificent. In the square was installed a football field with metal bleachers for the local championship.

Beautiful basilica. Entrance to 8 and many nooks to visit. Place of burial of Michelangelo and Galilee for example.

It's awesome! I am very excited to see so many geniuses in one place. The place is beautiful and is also worth mentioning the recovery after the 1966 flood

I love this square ..... for me it is the square where the Florence Marathon arrives.

To do absolutely the Duomo is a marvel of the architect and painting

There are no uninteresting places in Florence. Santa Croce is a tomb rather than a church. Solemnly. Sumptuously!!!

Beautiful cathedral where you can see the tombs of Machiavelli, Michelangelo and Galilee

The Basilica of Santa Croce is by birth the "church of the Florentines" since the citizens were paid for the construction work at the end of the thirteenth century. Originally located outside the city walls, it was built on a pre-existing Franciscan church most likely on a project by Arnolfo di Cambio. The facade, in a revisited Gothic style, dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. The interior of the church itself is a museum: it houses numerous richly frescoed chapels dedicated to the prestigious Florentine families who financed its construction and many funerary monuments of illustrious Florentines. Among the many works contained in the Basilica, the most important is undoubtedly the Crucifix by Donatello, the cause of a dispute between the artist and Brunelleschi who, finding it "rough and peasant", wanted to make a comparison. It is the only wooden work by the artist that has come down to us. The church also houses a Medici chapel, the work of Michelozzo.

Other important works preserved in the Basilica of Santa Croce are Donatello's Annunciation Cavalcanti and the Pulpit by Benedetto da Maiano. The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is an integral part of the complex of the church of Santa Croce and the adjacent cloisters. Established as a museum in 1959 in spaces previously occupied by the convent and carefully restored after the damage caused by the 1966 flood, it houses splendid works of art from the Florentine school. An absolute masterpiece of the history of art is the Crucifix by Cimabue located in the fourteenth-century Refectory, a symbol of the transition to modern painting, which has sadly become the symbol of the destruction caused by the 1966 flood. They enrich the heritage of the Opera di Santa Croce museum also a collection of glazed terracotta by the Della Robbia, a magnificent gilded bronze sculpture depicting San Lodovico di Tolosa by Donatello, some paintings and wooden furnishings. The Pazzi Chapel is accessed from the splendid fourteenth-century cloister of the convent.

One of my favorite places in Florence, to look for a gift in the markets that are usually in the square, or to rest at sunset.

Big in the centre of town.
Can't miss it unless you don't want to see it.

Within its naves it preserves the tombs or commemorative plaques of some of the most deserving historical personalities in Italy, such as Dante, Galileo or Marconi. A kind of sacred temple for the country, like Westminster Abbey for England.

Exceptional you can not miss this visit if you are in Florence

Another piece of unique art that you can only see in Florence

Beautiful building. Unfortunately i didn't go inside, but it doesn't mean you can't appreciate this wonderful basilica.

Art is always at home in Florence and this basilica is one of many examples.

Ancient Romanesque-Gothic basilica with numerous important works of art

It invites recollection and spirituality. Very beautiful.

Inside stands out the crypt of Michelangelo and Galileo. Imposing in the square the statue of Dante Alighieri, Florentine who was banished by the pope

One of the most beautiful churches in Florence in one of the most characteristic squares.

Beautiful church ... burial of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Gorgeous. But like all the monuments of Florence there was an infinite queue.

A nice place. They didn t go inside, but it was fascinating outside.

The basilica is worth a visit to every cultural person. Here are the burial sites of many famous personalities.

It is one of the most beautiful churches in the world in one of the most beautiful squares in the world in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, is it enough as a comment? Florence mon amour

Fantastic architecture, very humbling to think how it was built and when with the technology of the day

Well maintained, good signage and details of the works of art.

The fact that you pay the entrance fee to enter the basilica also on Sunday leaves me speechless.

Historically unparalleled perhaps the basilica with more wealth in its construction does not allow you to take photos and on the outside a lot of walking

Not to be missed as there is Vasari's upper room, the tomb of Galileo, Michelangelo, Rossini and Ugo Foscolo.

It is worth paying, 8 or 5 reduced admission, to see this church. It is a visit that requires spending some time. It has many elements to admire besides the tombs of illustrious characters such as Michelangelo, Galileo or the one that would have been destined for Dante if he had returned to Florence. With the entrance you have access to the cloister, adjacent rooms and the gallery of the romantic tombs, which being like in a subway, dimly lit, gives the feeling of getting into those places where the protagonists of scary movies get in when you should not. In short, a must-see, worthwhile, and long, but there are bathrooms and even a vending machine for drinks, which I think is very good in summer

We enjoyed our time. There was even an orchestral group practicing in public. They were good!

This place is one of my favorite in Florence, here you can feel history, art and philosophy of florence, because here are resting Michelangelo, Machiaveli, Galileo and others, people who made with Medici history of Firenze, you can feel everything here, the beautiful painting, every part of the Basilica is full of important and interesting events, here you can see how and what was impact of making Statue of Liberty , here is cappela of Medici and cappela of Pazzi, two most powerful families of Florence. So to cut a long story short if you are interested in history, art and many other things you must go and see this place, its worth of your time ( and i think money too )

A nice visit, I recommend downloading the App, the explanations are useful.

Interesting architecture, lots of shopping and wandering streets.

Very beautiful the Basilica where are buried several personalities like Michelangelo and Machiavelli. In the courtyard in front, occurs annually in June, the dispute of Calcium Storico, typical of Florence.

The basilica has stupendous frescoes with relative minimal but sufficient explanations inside .... Beautiful the refectory with frescoes and last supper painting!

Definitely worth a visit. Tombs of some important Italians.

We were fortunate to coincide in our visit with an international audition of choirs, singing live before the altar. If the monument is already impressive, visiting it with such a soundtrack made the hair stand on end. When leaving, just when they closed the door to the visitors and while we crossed the inner courtyard until the exit, the bell tower fired us with a beautiful concert. The visit was round, great luck.

Place of considerable historical and artistic interest ... it is one of the largest Franciscan churches and one of the greatest achievements of Gothic in Italy. It has the rank of Minor Basilica. In it there are More

I also saw the tomb of Galileo Galilei very beautiful

Exceptionally beautiful on the outside and very austere on the inside