On the other side of the Railway Station Santa Maria Novella, the “Fortezza da Basso”, designed by Michelangelo as defense of the Florentine Republic, thousand times remodeled and redone, now home to most of the Pitti fairs

from anywhere you arrive, Fortezza da Basso is one of the symbolic points of Florence that indicate the end of the “periferia” and the beginning of the “centro storico”.