Museum San Marco & Surroundings

The beauty and stillness of the Dominican convent of San Marco always catches the attention of all visitors who decide to enter this building, which once hosted famous personalities such as the painters Beato Angelico and Fra Bartolomeo, or the famous friar Girolamo Savonarola, who managed to control the city through his preaching at the end of the XV century.

Close to this square several less well-known places can be found; among them two of my favourites: the church of SS. Annunziata, rich of history and mysticism, and the ancient orphanage Spedale degli Innocenti, hosted in a building planned by the famous architect Filippo Brunelleschi. The museum gives a look on Florentine life back in centuries.