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A hidden gem convent-museum with real Renaissance frescoes.
A private tour of the San Marco Museum, a 15th-century Dominican convent with real frescoes by Fra Angelico, Fra Bartolomeo, and Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Discover this 15th-century Dominican convent-museum with incredible frescoes by Renaissance masters, featuring painted monks' cells, a refectory, and skip-the-line admission included.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet directly at the San Marco Museum.
Real frescoed monks' cells by the Renaissance master.
Included so you're not left waiting outside.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour of the San Marco Museum, a 15th-century Dominican convent with real frescoes by Fra Angelico, Fra Bartolomeo, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. Discover this 15th-century Dominican convent-museum with incredible frescoes by Renaissance masters, featuring painted monks' cells, a refectory, and skip-the-line admission included.
The San Marco convent dates to 1436, when Cosimo de' Medici the Elder invited the Dominican order to take over an older Benedictine site and commissioned the architect Michelozzo to rebuild it. The friar Fra Angelico lived at San Marco from roughly 1438 to 1445, and it was here, working alongside pupils, that he frescoed the convent's monks' cells, corridors, and chapter rooms with the devotional scenes the museum is now best known for.
A few decades later the convent became the base of a much more turbulent figure: Girolamo Savonarola, who arrived in 1490 and rose to become prior in 1491. From San Marco he delivered fiery sermons against the corruption and luxury of Florence's elite, briefly helping to force the Medici from power and reshape the city's politics, before being arrested, tried as a heretic, and burned at the stake in Piazza della Signoria in 1498.
Because San Marco sits a little off the main tourist circuit compared to the Uffizi or the Duomo, it tends to stay genuinely quiet even in high season, which makes it easier to actually take in Fra Angelico's cell frescoes at close range rather than glimpsing them past a crowd.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
