Florence & the best of Tuscany Guide
North of the centre
The San Lorenzo district is the city's main market area, with scores of stalls encircling a vast food hall. The racks of T-shirts and belts almost engulf the church of San Lorenzo, a major building that's often overlooked in the rush to the Duomo and the Uffizi. Attached to the church is another key sight, the Cappelle Medicee (Medici Chapels). While various of the most important Medici are buried in the main part of San Lorenzo, dozens of lesser lights are interred in these chapels, and two of the least impressive are celebrated by some of Michelangelo's finest sculpture. The Medici also account for the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, with its exquisite fresco-covered chapel, while the most celebrated of all Michelangelo's works in stone – the David – can be admired in the nearby Accademia. The magnificent paintings of Fra' Angelico fill the nearby Museo di San Marco, which is but a stroll away from Piazza Santissima Annunziata, one of Florence's most photogenic locales, thanks to Brunelleschi's Spedale degli Innocenti and the church of Santissima Annunziata, which is notable chiefly for its a beautiful frescoed atrium.