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Walks in Piazzale Donatello.

One editor-picked walk through Piazzale Donatello, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning under the cypresses, on an island in the middle of the ring road.

Nearby

Other walks close to Piazzale Donatello.

Sorted by distance from the start of the english cemetery: the island of the dead poets. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Brunelleschi's first Renaissance loggia, the wheel where babies were left, and the university quarter behind it.

A monk's cell frescoes, the edge of the David crowds, and the quietest piazza in central Florence.

A former prison now full of café tables, a library roof terrace, and the lanes nobody photographs.

The covered market, the tripe stall, the Cibrèo cluster, and the flea-market square.