Curious Florence: Devils, Boars and Wax Anatomies

The stops, in walking order

1. 1

   

   Stop 1: Colonna di San Zanobi

   ~3 min here

   Colonna di San Zanobi is a marble monument commemorating Saint Zanobi, set beside the Baptistery of San Giovanni.

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   Stop 2: Palazzo Vecchietti

   ~3 min here

   Palazzo Vecchietti is a Renaissance palace whose most arresting detail is a small devil figure fixed to its corner.

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   Stop 3: Fontana del Porcellino

   ~3 min here

   The Porcellino is a fountain whose animal is not a piglet but a wounded wild boar, cast in bronze by Pietro Tacca.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

   ~1 hr here

   Museo Galileo occupies Palazzo Castellani, a historic building beside the Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery.

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   Stop 5: La Specola

   ~1 hr here

   La Specola is a natural history museum beside the Pitti Palace, and its most famous treasures are remarkably lifelike wax studies of human anatomy.

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   Stop 6: Giardino Torrigiani

   ~3 min here

   Giardino Torrigiani is a vast private garden attached to the Casino Torrigiani al Campuccio, within Florence’s historic centre.

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