"I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could produce," wrote sculptor Lorenzo ... the gilded bronze doors of Florence's Baptistery of San Giovanni ...

Holly D. Johnson The Basilica di San Lorenzo is the oldest Florentine cathedral, thus its external architecture is not as ornate and embellished as others built throughout Florence in later centuries.

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the ...

Facing the Cathedral ... a bronze copy of Michelangelo's David. This belvedere is also one of the best places from which you can watch the sunset. When visiting Florence, the San Lorenzo market ...