Free audio walk in Florence
Michelangelo in Florence
- 9 stops
- Free
Starts at Piazza San Marco
About this walk
A walk through Michelangelo's Florence, from the garden where he learned to sculpt as a boy to the tomb where he came to rest after being smuggled there.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
The garden with the statues
By this square lay the garden where a boy of fourteen was noticed and ended up dining with the most powerful family in the city.
- 2Stop 2
The giant left lying
Two sculptors gave up before a man of twenty-six pulled the David out of that same block.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
The facade that never came
Three years in the marble quarries, a road built through the mountains, and a facade that never came.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
The little room beneath the chapel
Under the burial chapel lies a small room covered in charcoal drawings, where he is said to have hidden after the fall of the republic.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
The statue he smashed
At eighty he carved a statue for his own grave, then took a hammer to it.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
The drunken god
A drunken Bacchus by a boy of twenty-one, and a bust he left half-finished.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
The annoying man in the wall
A face carved into the wall of the town hall, scratched out, so the story goes, with his hands behind his back.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
Two reliefs by a teenager
The house he bought for his family, holding the two reliefs he carved as a boy of sixteen.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
The Crate from Rome
Rome wanted to keep him, so his body travelled to Florence as merchandise, packed in a crate.
Read the story
Ready when you are
Walk Michelangelo in Florence with ROODS.
9 stops through Florence. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
