Holly D. Johnson The Basilica di San Lorenzo is the oldest Florentine cathedral, thus its external architecture is not as ornate and embellished as others built throughout Florence in later centuries.

Florence, a city where art, history, and culture collide in spectacular ways. Walk along the Ponte Vecchio and discover its centuries-old charm. The Piazza della Signoria is a must, filled with ...

Since the Uffizi Gallery is one of the most popular attractions in Florence, the lines to ... also designed the Basilica di San Lorenzo, the burial place for much of the powerful Italian family ...

Drawings believed to be by Michelangelo in the Stanza Segreta, or Secret Room, at the Museum of the Medici Chapels, part of the Bargello Museums and the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence.

Realising Michelangelo’s design for the basilica’s facade down ... Lorenzo is beautiful as it is.” One of Florence’s best known churches, San Lorenzo was built on the site of an earlier ...

The siege of Florence took place from October 1529 ... with the support of Giovan Battista Figiovanni, the prior of the Basilica di San Lorenzo (the basilica above the secret room).

One of these hidden treasures includes a trove of charcoal and chalk sketches in a cellar beneath Florence’s Basilica of San Lorenzo, one of the chapels belonging to the powerful Medici family ...

If you’re a religious history buff, you’ll already know about San Lorenzo. First consecrated in 393AD, it served as the city’s cathedral until the 8th century, and was later the private ...