Oltrarno & Santo Spirito

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Oltrarno & Santo Spirito and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Ponte Vecchio5 min walk381 m
• The Uffizi Gallery6 min walk540 m
• Piazza della Signoria & Palazzo Vecchio8 min walk658 m
• Brunelleschi's Dome & the Duomo11 min walk947 m
• Bistecca alla Fiorentina12 min walk998 m
• Basilica di Santa Croce13 min walk1.1 km
• Mercato Centrale & San Lorenzo14 min walk1.2 km
• Michelangelo's David at the Accademia17 min walk1.4 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 5.Piazzale Michelangelo at sunset — The terrace above the south bank with the whole city laid out below — the dome, the tower, the river and the hills behind. Walk up through the rose garden for golden hour; the crowd is worth it. Even better a little higher at San Miniato.
• 7.Pitti Palace & Boboli Gardens — The Medici's vast riverside palace, now packed with Raphaels and Titians, opening onto the Boboli — a hillside of terraced gardens, grottoes and fountains. The gardens alone are the best green escape in the city on a hot day.
• 12.Oltrarno & Santo Spirito — The craftsmen's side of the river — gilders, cobblers and framers still working behind open doors, Brunelleschi's plainest, most perfect church on Piazza Santo Spirito, and the square's bars for the evening. The most Florentine wander in Florence.
• 16.San Miniato al Monte — The loveliest church in Florence, above Piazzale Michelangelo — a green-and-white marble facade, and monks singing Gregorian chant at vespers. Climb up for both.
• 20.The Bardini Garden — A terraced garden most people miss, with a wisteria tunnel in spring and a view of the Duomo to rival Piazzale Michelangelo's — with a tenth of the crowd.