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Museo di San Marco

Museo di San Marco is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 56 m. Poggio all'Aia stands 934 m to the north, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze - Sezione Geologia e Paleontologia, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away.

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The story

Museo Nazionale di San Marco is an art museum housed in the monumental section of the medieval Dominican convent of San Marco dedicated to St Mark, situated on the present-day Piazza San Marco, in Florence, a region of Tuscany, Italy. The museum, a masterpiece in its own right by the fifteenth-century architect Michelozzo, is a building of first historical importance for the city and contains the most extensive collection in the world of the works of Fra Angelico, who spent several years of his life there as a member of the Dominican community. The works are both paintings on wood and frescoes. The museum also contains other works by artists such as Fra Bartolomeo, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Alesso Baldovinetti, Jacopo Vignali, Bernardino Poccetti and Giovanni Antonio Sogliani. San Marco is known as the seat of Girolamo Savonarola's discourses during his short spiritual rule in Florence in the late 15th century. Also housed at the convent is a famous collection of manuscripts in a library built by Michelozzo.

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Dates from 1869.

Wikidata Q13453137, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Step-free access
Limited

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates43.77847, 11.25944

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Springs
  • Piazzale Michelangelo: 1.2 mi
  • Fonte Pecchioli: 4.0 mi
  • Fonte Mezzina: 4.6 mi
  • Fonte Giallina: 4.7 mi
  • Fonte di Cascina: 5.4 mi
Peaks
  • Montepiano: 2.4 mi
  • Colle San Francesco: 2.5 mi
  • Monterivecchi: 2.6 mi
  • Monte Rinaldi: 2.6 mi
  • Monte Ceceri: 2.7 mi
Gardens: 38
Picnic sites: 13
Waterfalls: 8
  • Tonfo del Diavolo: 7.9 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
Cliffs: 3

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Museo di San Marco. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Poggio all'AiaN 349°934 m7.3 mi
Poggio CasacciaN 351°921 m6.7 mi
Poggio CornacchiacciaN 350°892 m7.1 mi
Poggio CapannelleN 354°839 m6.9 mi
Poggio TriniN 354°764 m6.4 mi
Poggio al GiroN 355°747 m5.1 mi
Monte RotondoN 352°705 m5.9 mi
Poggio PratoneNE 48°702 m5.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2017:4918:27
June solstice05:3420:1721:01
September equinox07:0318:3719:15
December solstice07:4615:5416:41

Local time (Europe/Rome).

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Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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