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Piazza Santa CrocevsBasilica di Santa Trinita
Both are rated highly by experts. On balance, Piazza Santa Croce ranks slightly better than Basilica di Santa Trinita. Piazza Santa Croce scores 82 with recommendations from 5 publications including Frommer's, Afar Magazine and Fodor's.
Piazza Santa Croce
Fodor's
Frommer's
Afar Magazine
Michelin Guide
Travel + Leisure Frommer's
Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
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Fodor's "Originally outside the city's 12th-century walls, this piazza grew with the Franciscans, who used the large square for public preaching." Full review
Frommer's "The Gothic interior is vast, with huge, pointed stone arches creating the aisles and an echoing nave trussed with wood beams, in all feeling vaguely barnlike." Full review
Afar Magazine "Standing in the Piazza Santa Croce, a statue of Dante looms over the square from the corner." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"One of Florence's oldest and most dignified squares." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Another monastery stuffed to the gills with great art and great Italians. Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo are amongst the people buried here"
Florence Travel Guide
July 7, 2021
Frommer's "It’s an art-stuffed complex...the Gothic interior is vast, and populated with the tombs of rich and famous Florentines. " Full review
Basilica di Santa Trinita
Concierge Frommer's Michelin Guide
Piazza Santa Trinita, 50123 Florence
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Concierge "This 12th-century church hides several treasures behind its rather bland facade."
Frommer's "Beyond Bernardo Buontalenti's late-16th-century facade lies a dark church, rebuilt in the 14th century but founded by the Vallombrosans before 1177." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"The decorative scheme of the Sassetti Chapel is Santa Trinita's main attraction... relating the Life of St Francis of Assisi, the artist painted a series of portraits." Full review
