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The Monuments in Oltrarno



Walking around the streets of the Oltrarno district you`ll have learnt that in order to appreciate the art, the culture and the history one doesn`t need to enetr a museum. Actually, the streets and the squares here in Oltrarno are scattered with monuments, statues, tabernacles that are witnesses of a past rich of stories and traditions still alive. If your apartment for rent in Florence is exactly in Oltrarno, you will come across these small masterpieces round every corner.

The tabernacles are a distinctive element of the old Florentine streets: realized on behalf of convents or merchants, they were either a way to show devotion and a sign of their power. Here in Oltrarno you will count many of them. Strolling around the Oltrarno streets you will see so many of them, different in style and age and some will strike you for the refinement of their tracts.

By now integral part of the urban architecture, fountains have lost their original practical function of supplying people with water. Today they are a wonderful decoration of the city and the enrich the streets and squares of the Oltrarno district. Some are smaller, some are bigger, more or less refined: if you have already been to Piazza Santo Spirito then you have seen the the grand fountain dominating the square. the most famous and most beautiful fountain in Oltrarno and in Florence as well is the fontana del Buontalenti, in via dello Sprone at the corner with Borgo San Jacopo: you can`t miss it if you enetr the Oltrano from Ponte Santa Trinita.

The Oltrarno also offers grand examples of military architecture: as the San Niccolò Gate, the Roman Gate, the San Frediano Gate, the San Giorgio Gate and the San Miniato Gate. In particular, if you want to enjoy a fantastic view on the Boboli Garden and on Florence as well, you can enter, thorugh the walls of the city, to the small room situated on hte first floor of the Roman Gate.

 

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