Florence Guide tourist information on the rich jewel of Tuscany: art, history and events 
Italian - ItalyEnglish (United Kingdom)
Science and Technics Foundation
Fondazione Scienza E Tecnica
Via Giusti, 29
50121 Florence - Italy
Phone: 055 2341157-242241
How to get there:
From Santa Maria Novella train station take bus line 31, 32 and 6 (“via della colonna” stop).
From San Marco Square bus stop Ataf: lines 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 20, 25, 31, 32, 33and electric bus C.

The purpose of the Institution is to make known and accessible the highly rated assets by a unique collection in Italy, of more than 50.000 items, witch go from naturalistic collections to scientific instruments, from machine models to hand-made objects and library references of high historical importance. Starting from this precious heredity, the Foundation aims at promoting a permanent activity of scientific culture, constituting an original laboratory where the proper use of historic scientific apparatuses go side by the side with modern technologies and new media. In April 2002 the President of the Italian Republic, honoured with his presence the inauguration of the Planetari of Florence jointly managed by the Institute and Museum of History of Science and the Astrophysics Observatory in Arcetri.

.
 

Suggested Hotels

Hotel Kraft
4 stars
Hotel Kraft
Via Solferino, 2
Zone: Porta al Prato
This peaceful and luminous hotel offers the most modern and technological services.

Hotel Villa Carlotta
4 stars
Hotel Villa Carlotta
Via Michele di Lando, 3
Zone: Palazzo Pitti
Is a romantic 19th century patrician manor, situated in the wooded residential area around Porta Romana.

Hotel Jane
3 stars
Hotel Jane
via Orcagna, 56
Zone: Lungarno Tempio
Hotel Jane, amongst one of the original and appreciated in Florence just 10 minutes from the Duomo and 5 mins from Santa Croce.

Hotel Castri
3 stars
Hotel Castri
Piazza Indipendenza, 7
Zone: San lorenzo
The Hotel Castri has 70 spacious rooms with private bath, TV SAT color, telephone and are all air conditioned. The rooms overlook in part on Piazza Indipendenza and Via Nazionale and partly in the private garden

Florence Events
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
The Spring of the Renaissance in Florence
From 23/03/2012
To 18/08/2013
From 23 March 2012 to 18 August 2013 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence exhibitoni of the spring of the Renaissance by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand.
Florence show on Donatello and Lippi
Florence show on Donatello and Lippi
From 13/03/2013
To 15/09/2013
Show "Prato, echoes precious - Donatello, Lippi and masterpieces of the Sacred", scheduled at the Museum of the Opera del Duomo.

Museum of Mural Painting - Museum of the Opera del Duomo - Cathedral Square

time
9:00[...]
Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi on the Renaissance
Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi on the Renaissance
From 23/03/2013
To 19/08/2013
The spring of the Renaissance. The sculpture and the arts in Florence 1400-1460
Palazzo Strozzi, 23 March-18 August 2013

Information: T. + 39 055 2645 155
www.palazzostrozzi.org
reservations:
Sigma CSC
T. +39 055[...]
World Cycling Florence 2013
World Cycling Florence 2013
From 22/09/2013
To 30/09/2013
World Championships 2013 in Florence a path to the World Cycling Championships Lucca to Florence.
Luxury and elegance - Exhibition at Palazzo Pitti
Luxury and elegance - Exhibition at Palazzo Pitti
From 19/03/2013
To 23/06/2013
The porcelain French court and the Ginori

On the occasion of forty years after the opening of the Porcelain Museum of Palazzo Pitti, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 opening of the exhibition 'Luxury and elegance - Porcelain French court and[...]
Paths of wonder - Exhibition at the Bargello Museum in Florence
Paths of wonder - Exhibition at the Bargello Museum in Florence
From 23/03/2013
To 18/08/2013
Restored works of the Bargello
The National Museum of the Bargello proposed for the year 2013 an exhibition dedicated to some important restoration works of the Museum, recently concluded, that are the result of generous cooperation against the[...]
In the splendor of the Medici - Exhibition at the Museum of the Medici Chapels
In the splendor of the Medici - Exhibition at the Museum of the Medici Chapels
From 25/03/2013
To 06/10/2013
Pope Leo X and Florence
The Medici Chapels Museum will celebrate the figure of Leo X, the first pope of the Medici family, in five hundred years since the election to the papacy. From the angle of Florence, the show will follow the life of John,[...]
Firenze
Sat

13°C
Sun

17°C
Mon

19°C