Santa Croce is similar to the Duomo in style (both churches represent dominant Gothic traits), and the exterior is stunning, despite not being as elaborate as the Florence Duomo. Visitors come ...

In the ancient refectory of the Franciscan monastery (now the museum) attached to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, there is a fragment of a Hell fresco (fig. 1) discovered in 1942 behind an ...

Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

One of the most striking features of the site is the arrangement of funerary stelae up to 2.40 meters high, which serve as markers for principal tombs.

Archaeologists have discovered a "monumental necropolis" dating to the pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BCE-1 BCE) in Santa Croce, according Italian officials. The ancient cemetery found in the Northern ...

Contemporary hotel in 18th-century building and in the midst of Santa Croce Basilica and Cathedral - 6.1km from Florence Airport. In a beautiful but boisterous location one block north of the ...