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2 h
Daily Tour
15 people
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ALCHEMY, ESOTERICISM AND NECROMANCY: THESE ARE WORDS THAT EVOKE MAGIC, INTRIGUE, MYSTERY AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
Florence is full of esoteric symbols, magic sign that come from the past centuries, simbols that talk about people who believed in magic and communicated the one with the other through secret signs: esotericism, magic, alchemy.
The facades of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella will have their simbols revealed, necromancy stories near the Basilica Santa Croce, the palindrome of the Baptistery of Florence.
Here will be Pazzino dei Pazzi and the three flint shards from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day light up the traditional Explosion of the Cart in Florence.
We will analise 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 fashinated by the kabbalah.
We will also meet Friar Girolamo Savonarola, the strictly religious Dominican hanged and burned at the stake in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria.
And again gark stories of punishements in the Bargello, Templars and Cathars in Florence!
Children rejected by their families because they were said to be born malformed because of the intervention of the evil one!
We will face an esoteric symbol and try to count the bees adorning the equestrian statue of Ferdinand I in Piazza Santissima Annunziata. It will bring luck… at least trying to count them, as they are uncountable!
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Member Since 2024
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