Inferno in Florence – Visit the Florence along Dan Brown’s book.

Inferno in Florence – Visit the Florence along Dan Brown’s book.

"If you know where to look, Florence is paradise." Dan Brown

Some days ago, exactly in the mid of May Ron Howard the director of “Inferno” – the third part of the best seller written by Dan Brow has stared with shooting the first scenes of this book. It was a big event for all habitants in Florence. The biggest interest has created Tom Hanks.

 

 

 

This book offers an interesting key to visit this city. Through the investigations of professor Robert Langdon about Botticelli’s “map of inferno” you can get to know this town very well. With Inferno, you'll delve into the mysteries of ancient Italy, Florence's medieval past during the times of Dante and of the Renaissance. If you enjoyed the previous books of this writer you will enjoy also this part.

Reading this book and soon watching the film based on it  you will get to know for example Porta Romana there starts the adventure of Robert Langdon. This monument belongs to the ancient walls of Florence, dating back to the 14th century, and it is the largest and best preserved gate of the city. This entrance still has the original iron doors and a marble slab with the Medici coat of arms. Today around the Porta Romana are placed restaurants, bars and beautiful park called Cascine.

 

 

The professor Langdon crossed also the Boboli Gardens which I have described previously. The Boboli Gardens, along with the Pitti Palace, is the most noble area of the Oltrarno, the left bank of the Arno river.

The Vasari Corridor is also the important place for the main protagonist. In Italian Corridoio Vasariano is an elevated enclosed passageway in Florence which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. Beginning on the south side of the Palazzo Vecchio, it then joins the Uffizi Gallery and leaves on its south side, crossing the Lungarno and then following the north bank of the River Arno until it crosses the Ponte Vecchio. The corridor covers up part of the façade of the church of Santa Felicità. The Vasari Corridor then snakes its way over rows of houses in the Oltrarno district, becoming narrower, to finally join the Palazzo Pitti. Most of it is closed to visitors.

 

Professor Langdon reached to the Palazzo Vecchio in search of additional clues, visiting the hall, then Francesco I's "studiolo" off to one side of the hall and then the stupendous Hall of Maps on the 2nd floor.

 

The protagonist follow also the street of of Dante Alighieri. He presents us the Via della Ninna when he dash into Piazza della Signoria and off into the streets that most retain their medieval aspect in Florence. This is where the Casa di Dante, or Dante's House, is located as well as the church where his muse, Beatrice Portinari, is buried.

 

So as you can read there are many places to get to know. So I would like to invite you to read or watch the movie – I will do it! If you are planning your holidays in Italy or Florence you can follow the footsteps of Robert Langdon – he has visit the Florence in few hours. Now in that city are organized many tourist tours during which you can see the exactly way of the main protagonist of the “Inferno”.