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Trace Michelangelo's life story from his family home to his burial place.
A private tour pairing Casa Buonarroti, Michelangelo's family home, with a visit to his burial site at Santa Croce Basilica.
Learn about the life of the Florentine master, seeing his early works and sketches at his family home, and visit the place of his burial over the course of a few hours. Note: Santa Croce may be substituted by the Accademia Gallery or Medici Chapels depending on availability.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Voyzo provides private pickup for this tour, tailored to your group.
See Michelangelo's early works and sketches at his family home.
Visit his final resting place inside Santa Croce.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour pairing Casa Buonarroti, Michelangelo's family home, with a visit to his burial site at Santa Croce Basilica. Learn about the life of the Florentine master, seeing his early works and sketches at his family home, and visit the place of his burial over the course of a few hours. Note: Santa Croce may be substituted by the Accademia Gallery or Medici Chapels depending on availability.
Michelangelo bought the cluster of properties that became Casa Buonarroti in 1508, but he never actually lived there himself; it was purely an investment. It was his descendants, above all his great-grandnephew Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, who transformed it into the building seen today, beginning around 1612. The project took roughly 30 years and was conceived specifically as a monument to the family's famous ancestor, filling the rooms with his early sketches and youthful works, including the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs, pieces he made as a teenager decades before carving David.
His burial at Santa Croce came with its own drama. Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564 at 88, and was first buried there with full honors, but he had always wanted to rest in Florence. Within weeks, his body was secretly smuggled nearly 280 kilometers north, disguised in hay and carted out of Rome under a single guard to avoid drawing attention. When it reached Santa Croce, his parish church, crowds turned out in such numbers that carrying the body inside for burial proved genuinely difficult.
Seeing both sites in one visit, the modest family home filled with a teenager's early sketches and the grand basilica tomb built decades after his death, gives a real sense of the distance between where Michelangelo started and how Florence ultimately chose to remember him.
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