Self-guided · 2.5 to 3 hours · starts at your door

The Hidden History Walk

A self-guided loop of 2.5-3 hours from your own front door: 3 km, 2,000 years. Best at 8:30 AM or 5:00 PM in August.

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Palazzo Busini-Bardi (your door)

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Cross the street and read where you live: Brunelleschi-school facade, floor hierarchy, iron torch rings from the 1400s. In these rooms around 1580, a club of frustrated classicists invented opera. Few people can say they slept at the birthplace of an art form. This week, you can.

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