Viewpoint · Florence, Tuscany
Piazzale Michelangelo
Piazzale Michelangiolo · Piazzale Michelangelo
Piazzale Michelangelo is a nineteenth-century square in Florence, where the Viale dei Colli avenues meet, visited as a panoramic terrace over the city.
Why go
This record is the square, which XTOUR types as a viewpoint because it is visited for the view. Florence's official tourism website says the square was designed by the architect Giuseppe Poggi together with the Viale dei Colli, that the works ended in 1875, and that it was first meant to be a monument to Michelangelo. At its centre stands the Monument to Michelangelo, made of bronze copies of his David and of the four Allegories from the Medici Chapels. The same page names the view over the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Santa Croce, the Arno and the Ponte Vecchio, as far as the hills of Fiesole.
Near Piazzale Michelangelo
Church
Basilica of Santa Croce
The Basilica of Santa Croce is the Franciscan church on Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, holding the tombs and memorials of figures such as Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Historic site
Palazzo Vecchio
Palazzo Vecchio, also called Palazzo della Signoria, is the medieval seat of Florence's government on Piazza della Signoria, still the address of the Comune di Firenze and partly open as a museum.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Gallery
Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery is the art museum on the first and second floors of the sixteenth-century Uffizi building in Florence, with collections of paintings and ancient sculpture.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Museum
Bargello National Museum
The Bargello National Museum is a museum of medieval and Renaissance art, chiefly sculpture, in the Palazzo del Bargello on Via del Proconsolo in central Florence.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ