FIESOLE one of the most fascinating archaeological parks in Italy lies in the wonderful landscape of Tuscan hills: Etruscan temple, Roman amphitheatre and thermal baths. The Archaeological Museum contains objects dating from prehistorical times to the Middle Ages. An important collection of paintings and sculptures from 10th to 18th century, including many Della Robbia terracottas, is displaied in the Bandini Museum.

In the church of the Monastery of San Domenico (15th century) you can see a magnificient altar piece by the friar Beato Angelico, who lived and worked here. At only few meters there is the abbey Badia Fiesolana (early 11th century) with an impressive facade made of white and green marble.

FIESOLE

Park of MONTECECERI  200 meters away from the entrance of the CampingFamous since the Middle Ages for its Tuscan Gray stone quarries. At the top an inscribed pillar recalls Leonardo da Vinci’s “flight”experiment.The caves of Fiesole, you exploit up to the beginnings of the Nine hundred, they are famous for the stone sandstone, the so-called one "stone fiesolana", broadly employed by sculptors since the century XV. Remembered from Welcome Cellini and from George Vasari, the stone fiesolana was perfectly lent for architectural and monumental works, but also for elements, more refined, of I furnish civil, sacred and urban, so much to be pushed the government mediceo to effect a severe politics of control of the exploitation. Between the XVII and the XVIII century, in fact, the caves of the fiesolano were "you banish" and reserved exclusively to the Florentine monuments. Among the last works realized with the stone fiesolana, the columns of the atrium, the staircase and other architectural elements of the Central National Library in Florence they are remembered. Today in the area a park has been prepared, whose crossed they show the fundamental types of the ancient caves: cuts her/it, to open sky and the latomia or it extracts thrusted, artificial caves with his/her own feet of support.

BLUE ITINERARY"THE FLIGHT" OF LEONARDOVia Leonardo da Vinci -  Cava Braschi -  Piazzale  Leonardolength: 1.500 meters           Difference in altitude: 185 meters ime required: approximately one  hour  

YELLOW ITINERARY A TERRACE OVERLOOKING  FLORENCEPiazza Mino -  Via Verdi -  Via Doccia – Via degli scalpellini - Cava Braschi – Via Montececeri -  Via  Belvedere  - Piazza Mino ength:2 .500 meters    Difference in altitude : 37 meters time required: approximately one  hour

RED ITINERARYTHE STONEMASONS’ QUARRIERSLargo Leonardo da Vinci -  Cava Braschi – Prato ai PiniLength: 200 meters     Difference in altitude: 185 meterstime required: one and a half hour

GREEN ITINERARY A BREATHE OF WOODLAND AIR Via del  Pelagaccio - Villa San Michele -  Via Doccia - Cavabraschi. Park of Montececeri. Prato ai Pini -  Via Corsica -  Via del PelagaccioLength: 3.500 meters     Difference in altitude: 175 meters time required: 2 hours

FLORENCE its world-famous heritage traces the great brightness in history and culture throughout the centuries. Galleries, museums, churches and palaces display masterpieces by Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, just to name a few. The most famed products of the city’s artisan traditions are made of straw, leather, ceramic, silver and gold. In Florence’s "trattorie" you can taste dishes typified by fresh ingredients and simple preparations and the famous Chianti wines as well.