Spedale degli Innocenti

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  • Address
    Piazza Santissima Annunziata 12, San Marco
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  • Phone
    055 249 17 08
  • Transport
    bus: 6, 31, 32 & C

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Lonely Planet review

Europe's first orphanage, opened in 1444, was Brunelleschi's first complete work as an architect. Andrea della Robbia decorated the elegant arcaded loggia in the 1490s with terracotta medallions of babies in swaddling clothes as an appeal for charity. Inside is Ghirlandaio's striking Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi), along with an early and over-restored Madonna col Bambino e un Angelo (Madonna with Child and an Angel) by Botticelli.