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The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city's main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family from Cosimo il Vecchio to Cosimo III. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls. For three hundred years it was the city's cathedral before the official seat of the bishop was transferred to Santa Reparata. San Lorenzo was also the parish church of the Medici family. In 1419, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici offered to finance a new church to replace the eleventh-century Romanesque rebuilding. Filippo Brunelleschi, the leading Renaissance architect of the first half of the fifteenth century, was commissioned to design it, but the building, with alterations, was not completed until after his death. The church is part of a larger monastic complex that contains other important architectural works: the Old Sacristy by Brunelleschi; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the New Sacristy based on Michelangelo's designs; and the Medici Chapels by Matteo Nigetti.

South wall and cloister arcade

Photo, interior, looking toward altar

Photo, interior, ceiling detail

Photo, exterior, lantern of dome

Photo, exterior, end elevation overview

Photo, exterior, door

Photo, exterior, cloister courtyard

Photo, exterior overview

Photo, cloister loggia

Lower wall and portals, from east

Open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Closed weekends from November through February; from March through October open from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 Entrance fee € 2,50

Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa

Florence is one of the most popular travel cities in Italy and holds many attractions for the tourist. Florence, a Renaissance city in the heart of Tuscany, has some of Italy's best museums, beautiful cathedrals and churches, and interesting streets and squares with elegant buildings and shops.
Here are the top attractions tourists want to see. Most of them lie in Florence's compact centro storico (The Centro Storico is the historical center of an Italian city).

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