Florence Santa Croce and Bargello Self-Guided Audio Walk: Dante's Quarter, Roman Arena and Synagogue

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Florence keeps what it loses. In the quarter around Santa Croce, a fish market's loggia stands in the wrong square, a church porch has no church behind it, and a Roman arena survives only as the bend of a street. Begin at the synagogue's green copper dome, finished in 1882, two decades after Tuscany's Jews became citizens, and pass Vasari's fish loggia and a porch whose middle arch opens onto the street where the nave stood. Read a house front of fifteen stone faces with Dante on the top row. Walk Dante's lanes and the honest story of his rebuilt house, see the Bargello and the Badia's tower, then follow the arena's curve into Piazza Santa Croce, its 1966 flood line and the marble front with Dante's statue. Ten stops, about 1.8 km and 75 minutes, flat, at your own pace, in English. Entry to the synagogue, the Casa di Dante, the Bargello and Santa Croce is not included.