{"id":17132,"date":"2021-11-16T18:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florencewhatelse.it\/prox_experience\/basilica-of-santa-croce-guided-tour\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T12:34:36","slug":"basilica-of-santa-croce-guided-tour","status":"publish","type":"prox_experience","link":"https:\/\/florencewhatelse.it\/en\/prox_experience\/basilica-of-santa-croce-guided-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Basilica of Santa Croce Guided Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><u>Florence churches: Visit the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence and admire the tombs of great Italian men<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Basilica of Santa Croce<\/strong> is one of the most famous and beautiful <strong>Florence churches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the meeting place for all humanists, scientists, theologians who made a great and valuable contribution to the birth of the Italian national identity between the Middle Ages and Renaissance time. It is known as a temple of Italian glories because it hosts the sepulchers of illustrious people: among all, the most important ones are <strong>Michelangelo&#8217;s grave<\/strong> and the tombs of Galileo Galilei and Machiavelli.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>church<\/strong>\u00a0has always been entrusted by Franciscan Monks. Originally, they built their monastery here but it was too small to host all their followers who were arriving at the square to listen to their preaches. For this reason at the end of the XII century they decided to ask the architect Arnolfo di Cambio to build the church as we can still see it today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa Croce<\/strong> is the <strong>pantheon of illustrious Italian men<\/strong> and famous artists, poets and intellectuals. Here inside are the conserved <strong>tomb of Michelangelo<\/strong>, Galileo Galilei, Ugo Foscolo and of many other important Italian families members, who provided their financial help for the construction of the church and in return wanted to be buried here.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore we can\u2019t forget the huge heritage of frescos, especially the ones made by Giotto in the Peruzzi chapels, covered during the Catholic-Reformation and saved after a difficult and long work of restoration. Last but not least in the peaceful cloister of Santa Croce church there is also a masterpiece of Brunelleschi: the <strong>Pazzi Chapel<\/strong>, an ideal, harmonious and geometrical space made following the strict principles of Renaissance architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Every year <strong>Santa Croce square<\/strong> around the church becomes the scene for the \u201c <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/florencewhatelse.it\/en\/2021\/03\/25\/florentine-historic-customs-celebrations-of-sain-joan-the-baptist\/\">Calcio Storico Fiorentino<\/a>\u201d<\/strong>, a reproduction of an old game very similar to modern football, played with <strong>medieval costumes<\/strong> and with almost no rules at all.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Important infos about Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacroceopera.it\/en\/organise-your-visit\/\">Basilica of Santa Croc<\/a>e <\/strong>is open from Monday to Saturday from 09.30 am to 05.30 pm. Closed on Tuesday. On Sundays and holidays is open from 01.00 pm to 05.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why booking a guided tour at Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17129,"template":"","prox_experience_categories":[71],"class_list":["post-17132","prox_experience","type-prox_experience","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","prox_experience_categories-artistic-and-cultural-experiences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basilica of Santa Croce Guided Tour - Florence, what else?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Basilica of Santa Croce guided tour: admire the tombs of the greatest Italian men of all times, such as Michelangelo and Galileo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/florencewhatelse.it\/en\/prox_experience\/basilica-of-santa-croce-guided-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basilica of Santa Croce Guided Tour - 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