Santa Croce

The Story of Santa Croce church began in 1220th when the Friars Minor established themselves in a oratory dedicated to the Holy Cross.

In 1294 the architect Arnolfo di Cambio was responsible for the construction of a new bigger, church, the one, with some changes, that we can admire now.

In this church was put the Cimabue’s Crucifix, that was moved into the close museum, after the 1966’s alluvium.

In Santa Croce church is possible find art treasures by the main artists like Giotto, Brunelleschi, Michelozzo, and their schools, and with the Counter-Reformation period also Vasari end Bronzino just for named some.

Visiting the church is not possible not be touch by the great quantity of monumental tomb. It’s possible find (some times a bit hide) the burial place of (from other): Michelangleo, Galileo, Rossini, Alfieri, Leonardo Bruni, Galileo Galilei, Machiavelli, Marconi, and Ugo Foscolo, who called this church “the shire of Italy glories”.

Into the church there is also an empty funeral monument to Dante Alighieri.