FLORENCE, TUSCANY, ITALY
PIAZZALE MICHELANGELO
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| Piazzale Michelangelo is together with the Forte di Belvedere, the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte and the hill of Fiesole, one of the best panoramic points of Florence. The large square planned in 1860 from the architect Giuseppe Poggi, on a hill south of the historical center, was realized in 1865, at the age in which Florence was thecapital city of Italy. The Piazzale Michelangelo, is dedicated to Michelagelo Buonarroti and accommodate the copies in bronze of some of his famous marble works conserved in Florence: the David and the four allegories of the Cappelle Medicee di San Lorenzo. In the Poggi's plan it was also the realization at the Piazzale of a museum with the works of Michelangelo, at the scope was constructed the Loggia in neoclassic style that dominates the entire terrace, but the museum was never realized, the Loggia today accommodates a panoramic restaurant. The Piazzale Michelangelo can be reached in car along the Viale Michelangelo, or on foot using the stairs of the "Rampe" from Piazza Poggi in the quarter of San Niccolò. In the terse days, the panorama from the Piazzale Michelangelo allows the vision of all the historical center of the city, the sight spaces from the town-walls of Oltrarno and the Forte Belvedere, to the River Arno and its bridges, between which the Old Bridge (Ponte Vecchio), to the Catherdral, Old Palace (Palazzo Vecchio), the Bargello and the Badia Fiorentina, in order to arrive until Santa Croce Basilica and beyond, on the background of this magnificent panorama are the hills of Fiesole and Settignano, Monte Morello and the arc of the tops of the Appennino peaks, that in winter are often snow covered. | |||
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