After you've sufficiently toured the church, head next door to ... on Mass times and more, visit the Santa Croce website. Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch ...

Rich in honey-hued churches and elaborate baroque designs, the southern Italian city of Lecce is often regarded as the 'Florence of the South'. The construction of Basilica di Santa Croce took ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

This confirms the genetic continuity of the male line of the da Vinci family, at least since the 15th generation.

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who share his Y chromosome, according to Il Giornale. For the first time, an ...

Published in a new book, the elaborate family tree goes back to 1331 to Michele, the great-great-great grandfather of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci is known around the world for his art, inventions, and scientific ideas. But what about his family? New research from Italy shows that the famous Renaissance genius has at least six ...

The city’s largest Franciscan church, the Santa Croce boasted stunning works of art, including Giotto’s fresco The Coronation of the Virgin with Angels and Saints, as well as funerary monuments to ...

In 1942, Florence met the love of her life, Francis (Frank) Marino, MD, while working at St. Francis Hospital. They were married in St. Lawrence O'Toole Church in Hartford in 1946, after Frank ...

The church features a marble floor and paintings by Titian, one of the masters of the Venetian Renaissance and a native of the region. Santa Croce and San Polo are technically two sestieri in the ...

FLORENCE — James Agusta Vaughn, 92, died May 26, 2025. Funeral will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at First Missionary Baptist Church, Florence, with burial in Greenview Memorial Park. The body will be ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Twenty people, a mental health business and a church were charged in an indictment that alleged Arizona’s Medicaid program was defrauded $60 million in a scheme involving ...