Esoteric Florence, a walk through magic

Florence is full of esoteric symbols, magical signs that come from past centuries, symbols that speak of people who believed in magic and communicated with each other through secret codes: esotericism, magic, alchemy.

Meeting of the participants at 17.15 in Piazza San Marco in front of the statue of Manfredo Fanti. Start of the tour at 17.30. The facades of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella will reveal their symbols, stories of necromancy near the Basilica of Santa Croce, the palindrome of the Florence Baptistery. We will find Pazzino dei Pazzi and the three splinters of willow from the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, which on Easter day ignite the traditional Scoppio del Carro in Florence. We will analyze the arsenic poisoning and death of the intellectual Pico della Mirandola in 1494, a close friend of Lorenzo the Magnificent, very fascinated by the Kabbalah. We will also meet Fra Girolamo Savonarola, the rigid and inflexible Dominican who was hanged and burned at the stake in 1498 in Piazza della Signoria. And more stories of punishments in the Bargello, Templars and Cathars in Florence! Children rejected by their families because they were said to have been born malformed due to the intervention of the evil one! We will face an esoteric symbol: we will try to count the bees that adorn the equestrian statue of Ferdinand I in Piazza Santissima Annunziata. It will bring luck… at least try to count them, since they are in accounting!