Santa Maria Novella

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Begun in 1246 for Dominican friars, the church was completed in 1360. Leon Battista Alberti who designed the upper part completed the white and green marble Gothic-Romanesque façade.

Inside the church there are splendid masterpieces including "The Trinity" by Masaccio, frescoes by Filippino Lippi and Ghirlandaio in the Tornabuoni chapel, a Crucifix by Giotto and a wooden Crucifix by Brunelleschi.

type:Churches
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address:Piazza Santa Maria Novella
openings:cloister: weekdays 9am-2pm, holidays 8am-lpm, closed Fri, entrance L 4.000
tel:+39 (0)55 - 282187

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