Chiesa di Santa Margherita


Dante fans will like to know that it was in this tiny 11th-century church, in the poet's old stomping ground, that he is said to have first espied his muse, Beatrice Portinari. And it is here that he ended up marrying Gemma Donati, to whom he had been promised.


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5. Chiesa e Museo di Orsanmichele

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6. Fondazione Zeffirelli

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