Esoteric Florence Magical Walking Tour

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About this activity

Florence is full of esoteric symbols, magic signs that come from the past centuries from alchemy and Kabbalah. The facade of Santa Croce reveals its symbols and necromancy stories and the Baptistery - its palindrome. We will see Pazzino dei Pazzi and the stones from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day light up the traditional Explosion of the Cart in Florence.

We will analyse the arsenic poisoning and the death of the intellectual Pico della Mirandola in 1494, a very close friend of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was very fascinated by the Kabbalah.

We will also meet Friar Girolamo Savonarola, the strictly religious Dominican hanged and burnt at the stake. And again stories of punishment, Templars and Cathars in Florence and children rejected because they were said to be born malformed because of the intervention of the evil one!

To bring us luck, we will try to count the mysterious bees… at least try to count them, as they are uncountable!

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At a glance

Duration: 2 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Up to 8 people
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Operated by: Florence Tours by Made of Tuscany

Ages: Infants (0–5 years) · Children (6–17 years) · Adults (18–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Headsets to hear the guide while walking
Included: Tour Guide expert in esotericism

Not included

Not included: Tips

Itinerary

Battistero Di San Giovanni

10 min

It has an esoteric shape - octagonal. Number 8 is the symbol of the infinity.
Piazza Della Santissima Annunziata

20 min

It is full of ancient charity buildings and rich of mystery (above all the uncountable bees on the equestrian statue of Ferdinando I De' Medici).
San Marco

15 min

Dominica Church with the tombs of Pico della Mirandola and Agnolo Poliziano, Kabbalist intellectuals in the circle of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Basilica of Santa Croce

20 min

We will explore the strange symbols on the facade from Alpha to Omega.
Piazza della Signoria

20 min

Palazzo Vecchio with its secret symbols on the facade; the lions under the Loggia; the place of the gallows of Friar Girolamo Savonarola, hanged and burnt at the stake.
Stop 6

10 min

Here are kept the three flint stones that arrived from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at the Crusades' time. Piazza del Limbo is the square in front of the Church. Here were buried the kids who died before being baptized.
Ponte Vecchio

5 min

The most ancient bridge of Florence, symbol of the city.