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Visit the interior of the 12th-century Romanesque Collegiata (not officially a cathedral but proudly called the town’s Duomo none the less) for its dramatic frescoes of New Testament scenes along the right aisle.
Ghirlandaio, master teacher of Leonardo da Vinci, decorated the Sassetti Chapel (far right of the high altar) with frescoes of St. Francis, and the Adoration of the Shepherds on the altar is considered his masterpiece.
It is evident not only in the splendor of the frescoes and monumental fountains but also in the dazzling design of a scarlet Lamborghini, a coffee pot, or a fountain pen.
Designed in the late 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo) but with a neo-Gothic façade added in 1863, the Franciscan church of Santa Croce (east of the Uffizi) has an important series of Giotto frescoes.
In the 16th-century Renaissance church of Madonna della Steccata (Via Garibaldi), Parmigianino painted the frescoes of the Foolish and Wise Virgins on the arch above the high altar.
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