FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE RESOURCES:
Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

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Square 11

Show descriptions
  • 1 - Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I (Site)
  • 2 - SS Annunziata Mon.
  • 3 - Crocetta Con.
  • 4 - Sped. degli Innocenti

Streets, Parishes, Notes:

"Quarter: S. Giovanni, Parish: S. Michele Visdomini, Streets: V della Colonna {p}, V della Crocetta (V Laura {p}), V S. Sebastiano (V. Gino Capponi {p}). Square 11 had few households, few shops, few patricians, some households with servants, few households w/o surnames and few widows. In 1551 Benvenuto Cellini lived in this square (V Laura)."

Photo courtesy Musei Comunali Firenze.
map of square 11