Walk through Florence's shadowed streets on this self-guided Dark Mysteries and Legends tour, brought to you by the Trippy Tour Guide. Discover the friar who burned the city's art and was burned in return, a ghost who has kept a window open for five hundred years, and a bride who clawed her way out of her own tomb. Pass the hospital where a nurse has never stopped working, a palazzo window bricked shut as punishment for conspiracy, and a stone marking a deal made with the devil. Visit the cathedral where a family was stabbed at Easter Mass, cross the bridge haunted by a murdered nobleman, and uncover the unsolved story of the Monster of Florence. Finish by the Arno, where beauty and darkness have always shared the same light.
5 minutesAdmission free
Brunelleschi's perfect piazza hides two windows with opposite fates. One sealed forever after a conspiracy. One open for five centuries, kept that way by a ghost who made a promise and never broke it.
10 minutesAdmission freeSee on map
10 minutesAdmission free
One bricked-up window on this Renaissance facade is not a renovation. It is a punishment. A conspiracy against the Medici was plotted here. Cosimo found out. The window has never opened since.
5 minutesAdmission free
An Easter Sunday assassination inside the cathedral. A lightning bolt that toppled the golden ball from Brunelleschi's dome. A demon's signature carved into the marble. The Duomo holds more than prayers.
10 minutesAdmission freeSee on map
5 minutesAdmission free
5 minutesAdmission free
The Germans blew this bridge apart in 1944. Florence spent years recovering its stones from the Arno riverbed and rebuilt it exactly as it was. The head of Spring was missing for sixteen years before they found it in the silt.
5 minutesAdmission freeSee on map
A secret elevated corridor runs above the goldsmith shops, built so the Medici never had to touch the street. Below it, the ghost of a murdered nobleman is said to walk the bridge where he died on his wedding morning.
15 minutesAdmission freeSee on map
5 minutesAdmission free
Florence’s power square became a stage for punishment, where Pazzi conspirators were hanged and Savonarola burned on the same spot. A crude face and scorched stone still haunt the palace wall.
10 minutesAdmission freeSee on map
Florence built Dante a grand tomb inside its most celebrated basilica. He is not in it. The city that sentenced him to be burned at the stake if he returned has been asking Ravenna for his bones ever since. Ravenna keeps saying no.
10 minutesAdmission includedSee on map
The tour begins in front of the main gate of SICILY FOOD DA CHIARA shop at Piazza di San Marco.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
| If you cancel | Refund |
|---|---|
| At least 1 days before | 100% |
| Between 0 and 1 days before | 0% |
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