Piazza Santa Croce

This territory was cleared in the XIII century Franciscan church in front of her , to accommodate the crowd of parishioners. Here in 1295 , construction began on the church of Santa Croce. The windows of the church adorned with stained glass. The Basilica was built in the shape of an Egyptian T-shaped cross, and is the largest Franciscan church in Italy.

The church is decorated with numerous frescoes and sculptures of Giotto , Donatello and other famous artists and sculptors.

In the church, buried about 300 famous Florentines - of culture, science and politics. Among them : Dante Alighieri , Galileo Galilei , Niccolò Machiavelli , Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gioachino Rossini , and others.

C XV century, the church began to organize a variety of festivals and events: it was here held tournaments of Lorenzo the Magnificent . It was invented is still extant Florentine football.For this block the square stands the spring , covered with sand , and on Sundays people in picturesque costumes under terrible screaming and cannons firing on her chase the ball.

In addition, there are organized rock concerts.

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