Il Balzo
District of Calenzano
Tuscany - Italy

Florence Airport, Peretola

Florence Airport, Peretola (Italian: Aeroporto di Firenze-Peretola) formerly Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is an airport located close to Florence, Italy, but administratively located within the territory of Sesto Fiorentino. It is one of two main airports in the Tuscany region, the other being Galileo Galilei International Airport near Pisa. It is a small airport, with a single runway and the main taxiway is situated at the end of runway 05, with an overshoot/holding area at the end of runway 23.

Located at 43.81, 11.2039 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Airports in Italy, Airports established in 1939, Transport in Florence, Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Italy

Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci

Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci) is sited at 277 Via della Repubblica, Prato near Florence, Italy. The centre is devoted to the contemporary arts of the last three decades. The complex composes the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Centre of Information and Documentation, including the visual arts, and an education department.

Located at 43.8611, 11.1083 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Prato, Art museums and galleries in Italy, Modern art museums, Biographical museums in Italy, Art museums established in 1988, Museums in Tuscany, 1988 establishments in Italy

Meyer Children's Hospital

The Meyer Children Hospital (Italian: Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer) is a pediatric hospital located in Florence, Italy. The hospital is an official member of the European Network of Health Promoting Hospitals of the World Health Organization and the personnel are involved in prevention and health promotion programs for the Regional and National Health Departments.

Located at 43.8057, 11.2477 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Hospitals established in 1884, Hospitals in Italy, Buildings and structures in Florence, Education in Florence, Anshen and Allen buildings

San Giovanni Battista, Highway A11

San Giovanni Battista or dell'Autostrada del Sole is a church in Florence, Italy. The church is formally named after John the Baptist but has also earned the name Church of the Freeway of the Sun for its location between autostrada del Sole (Freeway of the Sun) and the A11 Firenze-Mare highway. The design of the church is meant to reflect both modern and traditional church design.

Located at 43.8317, 11.1569 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Churches in Florence, Roman Catholic churches completed in 1963, Brutalist architecture in Italy

Teatro Comunale Florence

The Teatro Comunale di Firenze (or Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city. After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882.

Located at 43.775, 11.239 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Opera houses in Italy, Music venues completed in 1862, Theatres in Florence, Event venues established in 1862

Villa Medici at Careggi

The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy.

Located at 43.8094, 11.2495 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Gardens in Tuscany, Medici villas, Villas in Florence, 15th-century architecture

Prato Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Stephen (Italian: Duomo di Prato) is the main Roman Catholic church of Prato, Tuscany, Central Italy and seat of the bishop. It is dedicated to St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. It is one of the most ancient churches in the city, existing already in the 10th century. It was built in several successive stages in the Romanesque style. The church has a number of notable works of art, in particular, fine sculpture.

Located at 43.8819, 11.0978 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Churches in Tuscany, Romanesque architecture in Tuscany, 12th-century architecture, Cathedrals in Italy, 10th-century church buildings, Buildings and structures in Prato

Badia a Settimo

The Badia a Settimo or Abbazia dei Santi Salvatore e Lorenzo a Settimo is a Cluniac Benedictine abbey in the comune of Scandicci, near Florence in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded in 1004. On 18 March 1236, by order of Pope Gregory IX, the monastery passed to the Cistercians of the abbey of Galgano Guidotti.

Located at 43.7805, 11.1448 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Monasteries in Tuscany, 1004 establishments in Italy

Castello dell'Imperatore

The Castello dell'Imperatore was erected by Frederick II in Prato. It was built between 1237 and 1247 by Riccardo da Lentini.

Located at 43.8788, 11.0986 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Castles in Italy, 13th-century architecture, Buildings and structures in Prato, Visitor attractions in Apulia

Santa Maria delle Carceri

Santa Maria delle Carceri is a basilica church in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. It is considered one of the earliest, most notable examples of use of Greek cross plan in Renaissance architecture.

Located at 43.8794, 11.0984 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Prato, 15th-century architecture, Churches in Tuscany, Renaissance architecture in Tuscany

Stibbert Museum

The Stibbert Museum is located on via Frederick Stibbert on the hill of Montughi in Florence, Italy. The museum contains over 36,000 artifacts, including a vast collection of armour from Eastern and Western civilizations.

Located at 43.7929, 11.2552 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Art museums and galleries in Florence, Museums in Florence, Military and war museums in Italy

Peretola

Peretola is a suburb of Florence, Italy, located on the northern extremity of the Florentine commune. It belongs administratively to Quartiere 5 - Rifredi. It lend its name to the nearby international airport and is claimed as the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci.

Located at 43.7969, 11.1967 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Districts of Florence

Villa di Castello

The Villa di Castello is one of the Medici villas near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. Its ideal design appears in a lunette painted by Giusto Utens in 1599. The property was purchased by Lorenzo de'Medici in 1477 on the site of an existing building which he had rebuilt. In the villa he housed Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterpieces The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) and Primavera (painting).

Located at 43.8194, 11.2282 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Medici villas, Villas in Florence

Villa La Petraia

The Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a distinctive 19th century Belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence

Located at 43.8183, 11.2345 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Medici villas, Villas in Florence, Cultural landscapes, Villas in Tuscany, Landscape design history

Indiano Bridge

Indiano Bridge (Ponte all'Indiano in Italian) is the first earth-anchored cable-stayed bridge in the world. It is a bridge across the Arno River in Florence (near the Indian Monument). The bridge was built between 1972 and 1978 by Società C.M.F. S.p. A with architectural and urban architects Montemagni and Adriano Paolo Sica, and structural design engineer Fabrizio de Miranda.

Located at 43.79, 11.1962 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Bridges completed in 1977,

Villa di Quarto

The Villa di Quarto is a villa on via di Quarto in Florence, in the hilly zone at the foot of the Monte Morello. Quarto (fourth) is one of the toponyms relating to the Roman milestones, the most famous of which in this area is Sesto Fiorentino, of 45,000 inhabitants.

Located at 43.8186, 11.2416 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Villas in Florence, Gardens in Tuscany

Monte Morello

Monte Morello is the highest mountain (3065 ft. ) in the Florentine valley, Italy. It is located to the north-west of Florence and it spreads across the borders of the municipalities of Florence, Vaglia, Sesto Fiorentino and Calenzano.

Located at 43.8822, 11.2314 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Mountains of Tuscany, Province of Florence

Cercina

Cercina is a frazione (rural borough) of the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, in the province of Florence, central Italy, located on the slopes of Mount Morello. Sights include the Pieve di Sant'Andrea and the Castle of Castiglione, a former possession of the Catellini Castiglione family.

Located at 43.8447, 11.2622 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Frazioni of the Province of Florence

Teatro Metastasio

The Teatro Metastasio is a theatre located in Prato, Italy. Designed by architect Luigi De Cambray Digny, construction of the theatre began in March 1829. The inaugural performance of theatre was of Gioachino Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira on 8 October 1830. It remains the city of Prato's main venue for operas, plays, and concerts.

Located at 43.8797, 11.0994 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Opera houses in Italy, Theatres completed in 1830, Buildings and structures in Prato, Visitor attractions in Tuscany

Prato Centrale railway station

Prato Centrale railway station (Italian: Stazione di Prato Centrale) is the main station serving the city and comune of Prato, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. Opened in 1862, it forms part of both the Bologna–Florence railway and the Maria Antonia railway (Florence–Prato–Pistoia–Lucca–Viareggio). Until 2002 it was named simply as Prato.

Located at 43.8786, 11.1092 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Prato, Railway stations in Tuscany, Railway stations opened in 1934

Firenze Rifredi railway station

Firenze Rifredi railway station, or Florence Rifredi railway station (Italian: Stazione di Firenze Rifredi), serves the city and comune of Florence, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. It is the third most important railway station in Florence, after Firenze Santa Maria Novella and Firenze Campo di Marte. It also forms part of the traditional Bologna–Florence railway, and the railways linking Florence with Prato, Pistoia, Lucca and Viareggio, and Pisa and Livorno, respectively.

Located at 43.8003, 11.2367 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Railway stations in Florence

Heating plant and main controls cabin, Florence

The Heating plant and Main controls cabin is a technical facilities building in Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station designed by architect Angiolo Mazzoni in 1929. The complex is recognized as one of the masterpiece of Futurist architecture.

Located at 43.7817, 11.2449 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Railway stations in Florence, Italian fascist architecture, Futurist architecture

Tomba della Mula

The Tomba della Mula is a beehive tomb in Sesto Fiorentino, near Florence, central Italy, dating to the 7th century BC. The names derives from an ancient legend, according to which a golden she-mule had been buried in the fields around Florence. It is known since the 15th century, and is the largest pre-Italic dome tomb known in Italy. The structure has a diameter of some 9 meters. The tomb was declared a national monument in 1905.

Located at 43.8285, 11.2143 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Tuscany, Burial monuments and structures, Burials in Italy

Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist

The Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist is a fresco cycle by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi and his assistants, executed between 1452 and 1465. It is located in the Great Chapel (Cappella Maggiore) of the Cathedral of Prato, Italy.

Located at 43.8818, 11.0983 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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1450s paintings, 1460s paintings, Paintings by Filippo Lippi, Fresco paintings

Demidoff Chapel of San Donato

The Cappella Demidoff di San Donato, or Demidoff Chapel of San Donato, is today host of the Church of Christ in Florence, found on via San Donato. The church was formerly the private chapel of the Villa San Donato, that was built by the rich Russian noble, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato. It hosted a Russian Orthodox rites. The chaple recalls both the Pantheon in Rome, with its central oculus, and the villa Caprarola by Andrea Palladio.

Located at 43.7883, 11.2255 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Churches in Florence, Demidov family, Neoclassical architecture, Religious buildings completed in 1831