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Piazza Santa CrocevsMuseo Nazionale del Bargello
Both Museo Nazionale del Bargello and Piazza Santa Croce are recommended by writers. On balance, Museo Nazionale del Bargello ranks significantly higher than Piazza Santa Croce. Museo Nazionale del Bargello ranks #5 in Florence with accolades from 8 reviews like Michelin Guide, Fodor's and Lonely Planet.
Piazza Santa Croce
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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
Museo Nazionale del Bargello
Concierge Travel + Leisure Fodor's Travel + Leisure Michelin Guide
The Telegraph Afar Magazine
Condé Nast Traveler Frommer's
Via del Proconsolo 4, 50122 Florence
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Concierge "Today, the museum houses a fabulous collection of sculpture by Michelangelo, Donatello, Benvenuto Cellini, Giambologna, and others."
Travel + Leisure "What the Uffizi is to paintings, the Bargello is to sculpture: a storehouse of some of the greatest works in marble and bronze to come out of the Renaissance and Baroque eras." Full review
Fodor's "Houses the Museo Nazionale, home to what is probably the finest collection of Renaissance sculpture in Italy." Full review
Travel + Leisure "One of Florence's most important museums yet surprisingly under-appreciated, the Bargello houses one of the world's great collections of Florentine Renaissance sculpture. " Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"Palazzo del Podestà has a remarkable courtyard... is home to a museum of great importance." Full review
The Telegraph "The treasures inside include celebrated works such as Giambologna’s Mercury and Michelangelo’s Drunken Bacchus, as well as Donatello’s two Davids and his statue of Saint George.
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Afar Magazine "This forbidding building, once the city jail, is home to a superb sculpture collection." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "Museo Nazionale del Bargello—which opened in 1865 by order of by royal decree, making it Italy’s first national museum—houses the city’s most important collection of Renaissance sculpture." Full review
Frommer's "Inside this 1255 Gothic palazzo is Florence's premier sculpture museum, with works by Michelangelo, the della Robbias, and Donatello." Full review
