churches and convents

Churches, convents, cloisters and refectories make up an amazing part of the area’s cultural and civil heritage. The streets and squares of the Oltrarno district host innumerable ancient places worship and devotion, which bear witness to the area’s historical past and continue to represent an essential part of the city’s identity today. Churches in the Oltrarno district are much like tiny museums that conserve works of art of inestimable value which were once commissioned by wealthy public and private patrons.