Florence Oltrarno Tour: Artisan Workshops and Treasures of San Frediano

A short distance away from the impressive Piazza Pitti, you will visit some of the extraordinary workshops where to admire local artisans at work, producing marvelous traditional handicrafts such as shoes, engravings, art prints, marble paper, enamel, silver objects, mosaic artwork made with ancient Medicean technique, carved wood articles, etc.[readmore] Led by your expert guide, you will also reach the charming Piazza Santo Spirito, with its typical family restaurants, small shops and artists’ studios: a suggestive sight of Florence where time seems to stand still.  Here you will be able to visit the amazing namesake church designed by Brunelleschi which was the last masterpiece of the great Artist.  

Here you will have the opportunity to discover the wonderful Santo Spirito Monumental complex: cloister, refectory, chapter house, and sacristy, where to admire the only existing wooden sculpture of Michelangelo: a crucifix that he carved at the age of only 17.