Recent travelers note that the church museum is also worth exploring, and that even roaming the grounds of Santa Maria Novella can be worth the time and effort due to the natural beauty found on ...

Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella has endured the rise and fall of various ... in Florence began cultivating herbs and plants on the grounds of a small church, which they then used ...

But as home to one of the world's oldest pharmacies, Santa Maria Novella boasts an attraction no other church in Italy can match. Dominican monks began concocting herbal remedies here in the 13th ...

1) discovered in 1942 behind an altar in the church, which is part of a "Triumph of Death ... Inferno fresco of his brother Bernardo (Nardo di Cione) in Florence's Santa Maria Novella have in the one ...

Kayla Hui The Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is an important religious site in Mexico City. Construction for the first shrine built to honor the Virgin ...

Florence ranks as one of the world's most beautiful cities. Indeed, it's so packed with wonders that it has inspired a psychosomatic condition, Stendhal syndrome – named for the French author ...