The most famous panoramic terrace in Florence, a must for tourists visiting the city.
It was built in 1869 to a design by the architect Giuseppe Poggi on a hill just south of the historic center, to complete the redevelopment of the left bank of the Arno.
From that year in fact Florence was the capital of Italy and the whole city was engaged in an urban renewal, the so-called Risanamento, or the bourgeois rebirth of the city: the Lungarni were created; on the right bank, in place of the fourteenth-century walls, the ring roads were opened in the manner of the boulevards; on the left bank the Viale dei Colli was traced, winding up the hill of San Miniato, an 8 km long panoramic road lined with trees, at the top of which the square was created, as a privileged panoramic terrace over the city.
The chronicle of the rapid construction of this latter enterprise was described in detail by the Italian journalist Pietro Coccoluto Ferrigni (known under the pseudonym of Yorick) who does not fail to report how a part of the Florentines were sorry "for the excessive expense" of the construction.
Between 1890 and 1935 the area hosted the tracks of the Chianti tramway, which connected Florence with San Casciano Val di Pesa and Greve in Chianti.
Michelangelo Square
Address: Piazzale Michelangelo, 50125 - Quartiere 3 - Gavinana-Galluzzo
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https://www.visitflorence.com/it/monumenti-di-firenze/piazzale-michelangelo.htmlLocation inserted by
Elena Petrioli