Plan your visit
Free guided tours: admission and opening hours
Guided tours: admission and opening hours
Due to service restrictions, guided tours are temporarily suspended
Reach us
- By train: Easy access from both Florence train stations: Santa Maria Novella and Campo di Marte
- 15 minutes walking from Firenze Santa Maria Novella train station, or alternatively you can get a bus (stop at piazza S. Marco, 5 minutes bus ride).
- By bus from Firenze Campo di Marte train station (stop at piazza S. Marco, 10 minutes bus ride).
San Marco historical building
Historical Museum of Italian Cartography
The IGMI Historical Museum of Italian Cartography hosts a valuable collection of the instruments used to carry out works of astronomy, geodesy, topography, photogrammetry and calculation.
The museum site (only italian version)
The Library
The library was created on 1865. The Library's collections include around 120.000 books, along with ancient manuscripts and historical maps dating back as far as the XVI century.
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