San Marco Museum
The San Marco Museum is located on Piazza San Marco. You can reach it from the Duomo (cathedral) by taking Via de' Martelli, then directly Via Cavour, which lies in its continuation, until you come out onto Piazza San Marco.
Address: 1 Piazza San Marco
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30–13:50. Closed on Monday and on the 5th Sunday of the month.
Admission: €11 (reservation recommended).
Chiostro di Sant'Antonio – cloister of Saint Anthony.
Under its arcades it houses frescoes by Guido di Pietro, called Fra Giovanni in religion, but better known under the name of Fra Angelico.
Among these frescoes, Saint Dominic adoring the Cross.
The museum rooms overlooking the cloister house paintings from churches and palaces of Florence, including the Madonna of the Linaioli and the San Marco altarpiece by Fra Angelico.
The Fra Bartolomeo room, besides some of his works, houses the unsettling and fascinating portrait of Savonarola, in which he was able to put all the fanaticism of the figure.
Small refectory
It served as a dining room for guests passing through, and Domenico Ghirlandaio decorated it with a Last Supper. The cat, the incarnation of evil at the time, is at the feet of Judas.
First floor
At the top of the staircase, Fra Angelico's Annunciation is one of the most famous works of the Florentine Renaissance.
Each cell is adorned with a small fresco made by Fra Angelico and his assistants, which was to serve the meditation of its occupant.
In the double cell, where Cosimo de' Medici used to withdraw, the fresco of the Adoration of the Magi is due in large part to Benozzo Gozzoli, who would later decorate the chapel of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
Library
Built by Michelozzo and enriched by the Medici, it was the first to be opened to the public.
