Category: Florence
Florence: Santa Reparata
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Florence: Badia Fiorentina
Florence: Dante’s church
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Florence: The Duomo
Florence: The Baptistery of San Giovanni
An old legend claims that Florence’s beautiful Baptistery of San Giovanni was originally a temple of Mars, the Roman god of war. The Roman emperor Augustus supposedly had it built to celebrate the subjugation of nearby Fiesole (Faesulae in those days) and the early Christians later converted it into a…