# Plaza de Santa María Novella, Florencia, Italia, 2022-09-19, DD 44

- By: Diego Delso
- Date: 2022-09-19
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plaza_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_Novella,_Florencia,_Italia,_2022-09-19,_DD_44.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/b/bc/Plaza_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_Novella%2C_Florencia%2C_Italia%2C_2022-09-19%2C_DD_44.jpg/1920px-Plaza_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_Novella%2C_Florencia%2C_Italia%2C_2022-09-19%2C_DD_44.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. The square was opened at the initiative of the Municipality starting in 1287 and completed around 1325, after the houses in it had been demolished. It was used to accommodate the increasing number of prayers who flocked to the sermons of the Dominican friars, who lived in the adjacent convent. Thanks to its size, it later became the setting for festivals and spectacles such as the Palio dei Cocchi (a race with carriages similar to Roman chariots), established by Cosimo I in 1563. In the square stands out the façade of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, considered the most important Romano-Gothic church in Tuscany and is a World Heritage Site that started its construction in 1290 and it took almost 200 years to be completed.