The City Of Florence (Italy)

Student Activities

I'm suggesting wikipedia link in the Italian language because it is more completed than the English version

• While at Piazza del Duomo students can start from here and delve into what they prefer: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_del_Duomo_(Firenze)
• While at Piazza della Signoria students can start from here and delve into what they prefer: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_della_Signoria
• In front of Palazzo Vecchio some statues are missing: the copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well as the statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi. Students can start rebuilding them: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Vecchio https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggia_della_Signoria
• In the Piazzale degli Uffizi there should be 28 statues of famous Italian people of Florence: engineers, poets, painters, sculptors, explorators. Sometimes someone was all this at the same time!!! Have you ever heard about Dante, Petrarca, Botticelli, Machiavelli, Mascagni ? Do you know Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raffaello ? Mmmm ... I'm not talking about the Ninja Turtles of course ... Does it ring a bell if I say "Amerigo Vespucci" ?  How can you related him to the "New World" ... the Americas ? What was the role of Galileo Galilei in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century ?   https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_degli_Uffizi
• Ponte Vecchio is a small place with a lot of interesting history. It is believed that a bridge was first built in Roman times: do you think it was destroyed World War II or by a flood ? In order to connect the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, in 1565 Cosimo I de' Medici had Giorgio Vasari build the Vasari Corridor above it. But ... where is Palazzo Pitti ? Can you help me to build it ? https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Vecchio
• Have you ever heard the words: cardo and decumanus ? How is it called the intense activity in Piazza della Repubblica between 1885 and 1895 ? Can you find the porticos with the triumphal arch, called the "Arcone" ? Above it there should be a pompous inscription: "L'ANTICO CENTRO DELLA CITTÀ DA SECOLARE SQUALLORE A VITA NUOVA RESTITUITO". Can you translate it ? https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_della_Repubblica_(Firenze)
• What is the meaning of "Novella" ? How many years did they use to build it ? Do you know how many artists produced items for the church ? https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Maria_Novella
• Museo Novecento offers to the public a rich program of exhibitions and activities to approach the 20th century’s arts and their protagonists. Do you know the museum offers several activities and laboratories, that change according to children’s age and lot of them are dedicated to families ?