The best place to find some of Italy’s finest places in terms of attractions is to take a trip to Florence. And there is too much for attraction in the city that keep them attracted and occupied during the stay. There are places like Christian sites, historical sites, markets and shopping areas, forts, fountains, monuments, park and gardens among other places to visit.  Below are mentioned some of the most famous places preserved in the form of historical sites and museums.

•    Santa Maria Novella: It is a famous church in located across the main railway station on its name. It is considered as the first recognized basilica in Florence and is the city’s first prominent basilica in Florence.  The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments.

•    Santo Spirito: The Basilica of Santa Maria del Santo Spirito (“St. Mary of the Holy Spirit”) is one of the prominent churches in Florence. Also known as Santo Spirito, it is situated in the Oltrarno quarter having the square with similar name. The current church was made over the earlier ruins of an Augustinian convent from the 13th century, destroyed in a fire. Filippo Brunelleschi made designs for the new building from 1428. After his death in 1446, his followers Antonio Manetti, Giovanni da Gaiole, and Salvi d’Andrea carried out the work.

•    Great Synagogue: The Great Synagogue of Florence or Tempio Maggiore is a notable synagogue in Florence, Italy. It was constructed between 1874 and 1882 and its architects were Mariano Falcini, Professor Vincente Micheli, and Marco Treves, who was Jewish. It combines both architectural traditions from the Islamic as well as Italian worlds.

•    Accademia: The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (“Academy of the Arts of Drawing”) of Florence take care of art works in Italy.  Founded in 1563, it was the first academy of drawing established in Europe. Founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari, it initially denominated Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti Del Disegno—Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawin into two functional branches.

•    Bargello: Also termed as to be the Bargello Palace it is a former barracks and prison and now an art museum, in Florence. It was made as to house the Capitano del Popolo and in 1261 as home to the highest magistrate of the Florence City Council. This Palazzo del Podesta as it termed is the oldest public building in Florence. In 1574, the police chief of Florence started residing at the building. The executions took place in the Bargello’s yard until they were abolished by Grand Duke Peter Leopold in 1780, yet it existed as the headquarters of the Florentine police until 1859. After the exile of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Peter Leopold, the temporary Governor of Tuscany prohibited it to be jail and it became a national museum.

•    David: It is an excellent example of masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture developed during the period from 1501 to 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. The 5.17 meter marble statue displays the Biblical hero David while in its thoughts.    The common opinion about the statue is that it shows David immediately before his battle with Goliath. Later on statue came as reflection to the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The sculpture was unveiled on 8 September, 1504 where on in the eyes of David with a warning glare, were looking towards Rome.

•    Institute and Museum of the History of Science: The Institute and Museum of the History of Science is located in Florence and was founded in 1927 by the University of Florence. The museum is situated in the Palazzo Castellani, by the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. Among its famous collections the most important is its middle finger from the right hand of Galileo Galilei, that was removed when Galileo’s remains were transported to a new burial spot on March 12, 1737.

•    National Archaeological Museum: It is an archaeological museum in Florence, Italy.  It is located on 1 piazza Santissima Annunziata, in the Palazzo della Crocetta The museum was started in the presence of Victor Emmanuel II in 1870 in the buildings of the Cenacolo di Fuligno on via Faenza. When the museum started it only had Etruscan and Roman remains. With the increased collections it became necessary to grow museum and in 1880 the museum was transferred to its present stage.

•    Giotto’s Bell Tower: It is tall free standing campanile which is the part of the complex of buildings that has made up Florence Cathedral on the Pizza del Duomo in Florence in Italy. It is situated close to Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of St. John. It is one of the finest examples of Florentine Gothic architecture with design by Giotto. This tall structure stand on a square plan with a side of 14.45 meters. Its total height is 84.7 meters.

•    Ponte Vecchio: It is Medieval Bridge over the Arno River, in Florence is recognized for shops constructed along it. Initially, those shops were under the control of Butchers, however, with time being they were soon occupied by the shops, tenants, jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been said about the bridge, that it is the Europe’s oldest wholly stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge like as Alconetar Bridge.

•    Boboli Gardens: Italian I Giardini Di Boboli makes a famous park in Florence, Italy and is home to a distinguished collection of sculptures dating back to the sixteenth century having Roman antiquities on the show. It is decorated in a mid -16th century garden style. The architecture of the garden includes longer axial developments, wide gravel avenues and a considerable built element of stone. Moreover openness of the garden with an expansive is rare to its time and precision for an era when it was constructed back in 16th century. t

Other places of tourist attraction in Florence are Palazzo Gondi, Palazzo Medici, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Strozzi and Palazzo Vecchio, Uffizi and Museo dell’Opera del Duomo.