Rotonda Brunelleschi

A short walk from Piazza Santissima Annunziata is the Brunelleschi Rotunda, a sober building with a long history. Filippo Brunelleschi designed it in the 1430s as a centrally planned building, part of the Santa Maria degli Angeli Monastery complex. The date 1437 can still be read engraved in the masonry. The rotunda as a building type, inaugurated by Brunelleschi, was particularly popular from the late 15th century until the mid-16th century. The building, however, was not completed. The walls were covered with a roof in the 17th century, and in the 19th century rooms were built at the top, used by sculptor Enrico Pazzi as a studio.

Text from FeelFlorence (en), the official tourism portal of the Comune di Firenze and the Citta Metropolitana di Firenze; shortened