Dante Alighieri House Museum, Florence

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Near the church of Santa Margherita the old house is located, and everything in it reminds us about its famous owner - Dante Alighieri.

Find the house-museum of Dante in Florence is easy, it is located next to the church of Santa Margarita. The house looks so old that you can not even imagine that it was built at the beginning of the last century.

The area, where the house of the Dante's family used to be, was built up with new houses, but soon the Italians decided to pay tribute to the memory of the great compatriot and reconstructed his house in full accordance with the original.

Now inside the house museum you can find antique furniture, diaries and paintings of Dante's family.

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Visit Dante's House Museum

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In the very center of Florence there is a house. This is a place where outstanding Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote his world famous "Divine Comedy".

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Location: Via Santa Margherita

Open hours

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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