VISIT
SANTA CROCE
with the Audio Guide
To explore the Monumental Complex of Santa Croce in Florence without any stress: book your skip-the-line ticket with a free audio-guide included to enjoy your experience in full
BOOK YOUR VISIT
Book your ticket with audio-guide included and discover the Monumental Complex of Santa Croce under your own steam. Choose the date and time slot for your visit, then come to the ticket office to pick up the audio-guide you’ve booked.
WHAT YOU’LL BE SEEING
Living heritage
The Monumental Complex, covering some 12,000 mt2, includes the Basilica, two magnificent cloisters, the Pazzi Chapel designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and the former refectory known as the Cenacolo. Santa Croce houses over 4,000 works of art, a priceless heritage still largely in its original setting that includes masterpieces by Giotto, Cimabue, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Taddeo and Agnolo Gaddi, Orcagna, Bronzino, Vasari, Canova and numerous other artists who have helped to revolutionise the history of Italian art.
Santa Croce, the resting place of Italy’s most illustrious figures
The Monumental Complex of Santa Croce with its 800-year-old history is a unique site where the artistic and the spiritual are inextricably interwoven. Founded by St. Francis’s first followers in the early 13th century, the complex has always played a crucial role in Florence’s religious and civic life. The art treasures that are the ultimate expression of the site’s spiritual and cultural identity sit in the company of the tombs and cenotaphs of such illustrious figures as Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Galileo Galilei, Ugo Foscolo, Vittorio Alfieri and the many others who have turned it into a pantheon of the country’s civic memory.
