The Basilica of Santa Croce, in omonima the public square to Florence, is one of the greatest churches officiate from the Franciscans. One of the maximum realizations of the gotico in Italy, is famous as tempio of the Italian glories for the numerous interments of sums artists, men of letters scientists whom it encloses.
Santa Croce is a prestigious symbol of Florence, the place of encounter of the greatest religious, well-read, umanisti and political artists, teologi, that they determined, in the good and bad fate, the identity of tardomedievale and rinascimentale Florence.

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