The Benedictine monastery was founded in 978 by the mother of Count Hugo of Tuscany. The bell tower is well known focal point of the city of Florence,
There are Dante lectures given here in memory of the first public reading by Giovanni Boccaccio of Dante's Divine Comedy in 1373. Inside the Badia, there are two works of note: the marble tomb of the Marquis Hugo of Tuscany by Mino of Fiesole, and the Apparition of the Madonna to St. Bernard by Filippino Lippi.
Badia Fiorentino
Via del Proconsolo, 3
Florence (FI)
p.+39-055287389
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