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(Local Name: Spedale degli Innocenti) In 1419 the guild of silk merchants and tailors commissioned the architect Filippo Brunelleschi, who built the dome of the cathedral, to build a foundling hospital, the "Hospital of the Innocents", equating the foundlings with the slaughtered first-born of Bethlehem. Until 1875 mothers who wanted to leave their new-born babes anonymously in the care of the orphanage could put them in the "ruota", a revolving wooden cylinder at the end of the portico.
The Spedale degli Innocenti marks the debut of Renaissance architecture in Florence.
The Spedale degli Innocenti marks the debut of Renaissance architecture in Florence.
Hobbies & Activities category: Medical, pharmacy attraction; Architecture - Renaissance
Hospital of the Innocents
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 12
I-50100 Florence
Italy
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 12
I-50100 Florence
Italy
| Open | 8:30 | 8:30 | Closed | 8:30 | 8:30 | 8:30 | 8:30 | |
| Closed | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | ||
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| New Year's Day (January 1) Epiphany (3 Kings' Day ) - Christian (January 6) Easter - Christian Easter Monday - Christian Liberation Day - Italy (April 25) May Day / Labor Day (May 1) Assumption Day - Christian (August 15) All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1) Christmas - Christian (December 25) Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26) | ||||||||
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