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Graeco-Roman art.
(Piazza Santissima Annunziata 9b; adult/reduced €4/2;
8.30am-7pm Tue-Fri, to 2pm
Sat-Mon)
8
Synagogue & Jewish Museum of Florence
SYNAGOGUE
Built in the 1870s just after the Jewish community in Italy had gained full emancipation
after centuries of persecution, this vast synagogue is a beautiful, polychrome hodgepodge
of Islamic, Jewish and Christian religious architecture. A small museum documents the
history of Jewish Florence.
(Sinagoga e Museo Ebraico di Firenz;
055 234 66 54;
www.coopculture.it
;
Via Farini 6; admission adult/reduced/child under 6 €6.50/5/free;
10am-5.45pm Sun-Thu & to 4.15pm Fri Jun-
Sep, 10am-4.45pm Sun-Thu & to 2.15pm Fri Oct-May)
9
Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia
Once part of a sprawling Benedictine monastery, this
cenacolo
(frescoed refectory) har-
bours arguably the city's most remarkable Last Supper scene. Painted by Andrea del
Castagno in the 1440s, it is one of the first works of its kind to effectively apply Renais-
sance perspective and has a haunting power.
(
CONVENT
055 238 86 07; Via XXVII Aprile 1;
8.15am-1.50pm Tue-Sat, 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon, 2nd & 4th Sun)
Understand
Who's that Bloke?
Name:
David
Occupation:
World's most famous sculpture
Vital statistics:
516cm tall, 19 tonnes of mediocre-quality, pearly-white marble from Carrara
Previous residences:
Commissioned in 1501 for the Duomo, but subsequently placed in front of Palazzo Vec-
chio on Piazza della Signoria, where he stayed until 1873.
