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The 'Temple of Italian Glory' and its historic leather workshop.
A private tour of Santa Croce Basilica, resting place of Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo, ending at the church's historic leather workshop.
Wander the cloisters and chapels, admiring original frescoes by Donatello and Giotto and the ornate tombs of Italian luminaries like Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo, before visiting the church's leather school — founded in 1950 by Franciscan friars to train war orphans, carrying on a leather-working tradition in this neighborhood that stretches back to the 13th century.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet directly at Santa Croce Basilica.
Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo are all buried here.
Founded in 1950 by Franciscan friars to train war orphans; the neighborhood's own leather-tanning tradition dates to the 13th century.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour of Santa Croce Basilica, resting place of Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo, ending at the church's historic leather workshop. Wander the cloisters and chapels, admiring original frescoes by Donatello and Giotto and the ornate tombs of Italian luminaries like Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Galileo, before visiting the church's leather school — founded in 1950 by Franciscan friars to train war orphans, carrying on a leather-working tradition in this neighborhood that stretches back to the 13th century.
Santa Croce, the largest Franciscan church in the world, traces its construction back to 1294, possibly designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, the same architect behind Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo's original plan. It replaced a smaller 13th-century church on the same site and wasn't formally consecrated until 1442, nearly a century and a half after construction began.
Its 270 floor tombstones and chapel burials read like a roll call of Italian history: Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, the composer Rossini, and others are all buried here. Michelangelo's own tomb has a particularly dramatic backstory. He died in Rome in 1564 and was initially buried there, but within weeks his body was secretly smuggled nearly 280 kilometers north, disguised and carted out of the city to avoid attracting attention, because he had always wanted to rest in his native Florence. When his casket reached Santa Croce, so many people turned out to pay respects that moving the body indoors proved genuinely difficult.
The leather school tucked into the old monastery buildings has its own real history worth getting straight: leather-working itself has roots in this neighborhood going back to the 13th century, when tanneries clustered along the nearby Arno for easy access to water, but the Scuola del Cuoio you visit today was founded in 1950, not the Middle Ages. Franciscan friars from the monastery partnered with local leather-working families to give World War II orphans a practical trade, and the school, still run along those original lines, has since counted members of the Rockefeller family and the British royal family among its clients.
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