This entertaining tour is designed for the intellectually adventurous traveller and tailor-made to be family-friendly. It makes it possible for kids and young people to encounter the beauty of ancient art by means of a kind of “time machine”: they enjoy a first-hand taste of what daily life in a noble Florentine household was like between the 14th and the end of the 16th Centuries.

Our walk starts on Piazza della Signoria, the heart of the city. The square is like an open-air museum, the statues here will give your children the possibility to enjoy tales of mythology! Then we will proceed to the Medieval District and Piazza della Repubblica, where you will see ancient tower-houses, learn about the Middles Ages and Dante in a fun and lively way!

The visit of Florence will be really memorable for your kids, if they experience a couple of workshops. Depending on their age and interests we can choose the best suitable for them.

In the workshop producing Florentine hand-decorated paper, kids are shown the historic process of “marbleizing” paper. This process was probably created in China or Japan, introduced in Europe in the late 1500. Children will be amazed at how from a few drops of color, so many different patterns can be created!

The other workshop we visit is the one producing Florentine mosaics. This ancient tradition started in Florence at the end of the 16th century, sponsored by the Medici family. This kind of unique art is carried on, still today, in a few workshop in Florence: you will be amazed by the technique of cutting marbles and semi-precious stones, in order to create subjects like landscapes, fruits, flowers. The combination of the many hues that nature offers through the different stones brought this kind of artistic production, to be called as “ a painting of stones”.

Our tour ends in one of the “must see” of Florence: the Academy.

Any visitor to Florence will want to see the statue of David, symbol of the Florentine Renaissance, and your kids will be astonished by his size and his anatomical beauty. We broaden our study of Michelangelo’s masterpieces and follow his career in Florence, under the Medici family, and his time in Rome, where he endured a difficult relationship with Pope Julius II, by taking in his significant unfinished works, the ”Prisoners” and the touching “Pietà”. We focus on Michelangelo’s “unfinished technique” which changed the approach of many artists towards their craft forever.