Piazza Santa Croce
6 expert reviews
“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.”
– Frommer's
Fodor's
"Originally outside the city's 12th-century walls, this piazza grew with the Franciscans, who used the large square for public preaching."
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Afar Magazine
"Standing in the Piazza Santa Croce, a statue of Dante looms over the square from the corner."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"One of Florence's oldest and most dignified squares."
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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
"The center of the Florentine Franciscan universe was begun in 1294 by Gothic master Arnolfo di Cambio in order to rival the church of Santa Maria Novella being raised by the Dominicans..."
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