Chiostro dello Scalzo
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Chiostro dello Scalzo is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 58 m. Poggio all'Aia stands 934 m to the north, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Museo di San Marco, a museum 0.1 miles away.
The story
The Chiostro della Scalzo or (Via Cavour, 69 vicino a Piazza San Marco) is a cloister in Florence, Italy that originally led to a chapel once belonging to a religious company known as the Compagnia del diciplinati di San Giovanni Battista or della Passione di Cristo. The term "scalzo" makes reference to the barefoot brother who carried the Cross during its public processions.
"Compagnia" (English: "company") was the name given to these Florentine congregations of layman who contributed towards defending Roman Catholicism. Each company had a different practice: the "Laudesi" promoted prayer through the singing of hymns, those for the doctrine taught catechism to children, while the charitable companies offered assistance to the poor. The Compagnia della Scalzo was a disciplined confraternity that practiced penance, often in the form of self-flagellation. The Compagnia della Scalzo was established in 1376, and used the church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri on the via San Gallo as early as 1390 for its meetings. When the company purchased land behind this church in the first half of the 15th century, it proceeded towards creating its own premises, which included a chapel (consecrated in 1476, but then totally renovated), the cloister and entrance (1478) still visible today. Back in 1455, it underwent a reform approved by the bishop of Florence, Antoninus, who was made saint in 1523 and who is portrayed in the painted terra-cotta bust now placed in front of the former doorway that led to the chapel.
The brothers wore black hoods with holes to see through and a heavy, black over garment tied around the waist with a white cord; such apparel is documented in the polychrome glazed terra-cotta relief depicting St. John the Baptist and Two Brothers (1510 c.) over the entrance to the cloister from via Cavour. Every first Sunday of the month the company organized a procession and every June 24, the festivities in honor of the city's and its own patron saint, John the Baptist, which today see events like the famous fireworks (I fochi di san Giovanni).
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Dates from 1891.
Wikidata Q2979780, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Museo di San Marco: 0.1 mi
- Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Geologia e Paleontologia: 0.1 mi
- Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Botanica F.Parlatore: 0.1 mi
- Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Mineralogia e Litologia: 0.1 mi
- Giardino dei Semplici: 0.1 mi
- Generale Manfredo Fanti: 0.1 mi
- Statua equestre di Ferdinando I: 0.2 mi
- Bettino Ricasoli: 0.3 mi
- Ubaldino Peruzzi: 0.3 mi
- Arco di Trionfo: 0.3 mi
- Greta Thunberg: 0.2 mi
- Monumento a Giovanni delle Bande Nere: 0.4 mi
- Tabernacolo delle Fonticine: 0.4 mi
- Mercato di cuoio: 0.5 mi
- Lediesis - Rita Levi Montalcini: 0.6 mi
- Giardino del Borgo: 0.4 mi
- Giardini della Fortezza: 0.4 mi
- Piazza della Vittoria: 0.5 mi
- Giardino dell'Orticoltura: 0.5 mi
- Piazza D'Azeglio: 0.5 mi
- Piazzale Michelangelo: 1.3 mi
- Fonte Pecchioli: 4.0 mi
- Fonte Mezzina: 4.5 mi
- Fonte Giallina: 4.6 mi
- Fonte di Cascina: 5.3 mi
- Montepiano: 2.3 mi
- Colle San Francesco: 2.5 mi
- Monterivecchi: 2.5 mi
- Monte Rinaldi: 2.5 mi
- Monte Ceceri: 2.7 mi
- Cappella dei Magi: 0.4 mi
- Mercato di San Lorenzo: 0.4 mi
- Basilica di San Lorenzo: 0.4 mi
- Touristic Entrance for Finanza: 0.4 mi
- Porta della Mandorla: 0.5 mi
- Giardino Enzo Bonaventura: 0.2 mi
- Giardino di Palazzo Capponi: 0.3 mi
- Giardino del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze: 0.3 mi
- Giardino di villa Ruspoli: 0.3 mi
- Giardino Bianca Bianchi: 0.5 mi
- Fontesanta: 7.4 mi
- Area Botanica "Quercia Mencola": 8.8 mi
- Fonte della Capra: 11.8 mi
- Macinaia: 16.1 mi
- Area attrezzata Poggio alla Risala: 16.6 mi
- Tonfo del Diavolo: 8.0 mi
- Pescaia Calvelli: 13.4 mi
- Cascata di Meriggioni: 16.3 mi
- Pisciolo di Macereto: 16.6 mi
- Pisciolo di Sant'Antonio: 17.0 mi
- Area naturale protetta di interesse locale Stagni di Focognano: 5.8 mi
- Habitat Isolation: 8.1 mi
- Poggio Fonte Massi: 14.5 mi
- Parco Naturale di Cavriglia: 18.9 mi
- Masso al Cane: 7.8 mi
- Balze di Cognorsi: 13.2 mi
- Palestra di arrampicata di Massanera: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Chiostro dello Scalzo. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poggio all'Aia | N 349° | 934 m | 7.2 mi |
| Poggio Casaccia | N 350° | 921 m | 6.6 mi |
| Poggio Cornacchiaccia | N 350° | 892 m | 7.0 mi |
| Poggio Capannelle | N 354° | 839 m | 6.8 mi |
| Poggio Trini | N 354° | 764 m | 6.3 mi |
| Poggio al Giro | N 355° | 747 m | 5.0 mi |
| Monte Rotondo | N 352° | 705 m | 5.8 mi |
| Poggio Pratone | NE 49° | 702 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:20 | 17:49 | 18:27 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 20:17 | 21:01 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:46 | 15:54 | 16:41 |
Local time (Europe/Rome).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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