Florence Secrets & Mysteries Walking Tour

Adults (age 18 & above): £52

Children (age 6-17): £38

Infants (age 0-5): Free

Join us in this 1.5-hour walking tour to explore the most famous secrets and mysteries in the history of Florence.

Florence is sprinkled with symbols, codes and esoteric enigmas that come from many eras, in particular the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These signs tell stories of important or common people who have relied on magic, both pure and dark, to reach their destiny.

We will seek the symbols of the facades of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella, the necromancy in Piazza Santa Croce, and the Palindrome of the Florence Baptistery.

You will learn about the story of the legendary crusader knight Pazzino de Pazzi and the three silica splinters from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day light up the Brindellone for the traditional Explosion of the Cart in Florence.

Explore the story of the magnetism of the historically famous friar Girolamo Savonarola, the intransigent Dominican hanged and burned at the stake in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria!

Hear the stories of hangings, crimes, gallows in the Bargello, Templars and Cathars in Florence in the church of San Jacopo! Hear the story of malformed children being rejected by their families and buried alive because they were attributed to the intervention of evil!

Face an esoteric symbol and countless bees that adorn the statue of Ferdinand I in Piazza Santissima Annunziata.