After spending two weeks in Tuscany, I have seen plenty of churches. The last church I saw was the Basilica di Santa Croce. This is the other large church in Florence. During my first visit, I just saw the Duomo, and skipped this one. So when I came back, I wanted to check this out. I heard there are plenty of tombs inside.
There is an entrance fee to enter this church. It's rather atypical, but I suppose if you consider this place to be a museum, then it won't surprising if the museum asks you for an entrance fee. After all, given what's inside, it definitely would be a museum.
The facade is not the most opulent, but it does feature a statue of Dante. He is not buried here, however.
The interior is sombre, but with just the right amount of decoration. The altar I must say, was fabulous. And of course, as with every Catholic church, there are various chapels on the periphery.
What is noteworthy in this church is that there are plenty of tombstones and cenotaphs. There are quite a bit of funerary monuments all over the place, so every now and then I bumped into the names of famous Italians, such as Galileo, Guglielmo Marconi, Enrico Fermi, and many others.
As mentioned earlier, this is the last church I have visited during my trip. Given how many churches there are in Tuscany, sometimes it is hard to distinguish one from another without the aides of photos. Nevertheless, this one is definitely one of the more impressive ones.
