Basilica, market and student life
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Around the basilica of Santa Croce, where Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli are buried, this lively district mixes leather shops, the Sant’Ambrogio market, student bars and small trattorias. In the evening, the square fills with young Florentines.
The Franciscan basilica, begun in 1294, is the largest Franciscan church in the world and the pantheon of Italian greats. The area, often hit by Arno floods, was badly struck by the 1966 flood.
