Self-Guided Podcast Walking Tour Florence: The Price of Beauty

The ancient octagonal site of the 1401 bronze door competition, widely considered the starting point of the Renaissance.

Home to Brunelleschi's impossible dome, the ultimate symbol of Florentine civic pride and technological innovation.

The prototype of the Renaissance palace, where the Medici family used their banking fortune to unofficially rule Florence.

The parish church of the Medici, redesigned by Brunelleschi, showcasing the intersection of private wealth and religious architecture.

Designed by Brunelleschi, this foundling hospital represents the birth of Renaissance architecture and humanist civic welfare.

A Dominican convent renovated with Medici money, highlighting the complex relationship between immense wealth and spiritual piety.