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Walks in Sant'Ambrogio.
2 editor-picked walks through Sant'Ambrogio. Each one has been walked — stops, distances, and a paragraph on what to notice.
Walks in Sant'Ambrogio
Sant'Ambrogio: the market and the local's east
The covered market, the tripe stall, the Cibrèo cluster, and the flea-market square.
The Jewish quarter and the Great Synagogue
A Moorish dome over a working neighbourhood, the buried ghetto, and the kosher streets near Sant'Ambrogio.
Nearby
Other walks close to Sant'Ambrogio.
Sorted by distance from the start of sant'ambrogio: the market and the local's east. Good for stitching together a longer day.
Le Murate: the prison turned piazza
A former prison now full of café tables, a library roof terrace, and the lanes nobody photographs.
The Arno east: Lungarno della Zecca to San Niccolò
The quiet downstream embankment — the weir, the towers, and the riverbank nobody walks.
Santa Croce: the basilica and the leather quarter
Michelangelo and Galileo under one roof, a working leather school, and the artisan lanes around them.
Piazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato al Monte
The climb to the great terrace, then the quietest Romanesque church in Florence above it.