San Domenico cemetery

San Domenico cemetery is a cemetery in Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany. San Domenico cemetery is situated nearby to the church convent of San Domenico, as well as near the museum Chiesa e Convento di San Domenico di Fiesole.

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Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Fiesole, Italy
Also known as: “Cimitero di San Domenico”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include convent of San Domenico and Villa Sparta.

convent of San Domenico

Church

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The Convent of San Domenico is a Dominican convent in Fiesole, Italy, situated between the hill of Fiesole and the suburbs of Florence. It was founded in 1406 and completed in 1435 on the initiative of Giovanni Dominici and the bishop of Fiesole, Jacopo Altoviti, both of them friars at the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.

Villa Sparta

Manor estate

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Villa Sparta is a manor estate, which is situated 220 metres east of San Domenico cemetery.

Villa Medici

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The Villa Medici is a patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of the villas built for the Medici family. It was built between 1451 and 1457. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany. Villa Medici is situated 500 metres northeast of San Domenico cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monterinaldi and Maiano.

Monterinaldi

Locality

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Monterinaldi is a locality.

Maiano

Hamlet

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Maiano is small hilltop locality, now part of Fiesole, in Tuscany. The Chiesa di San Martino was founded there in the eleventh century and subsequently restored in the fifteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.