Santa Croce is the first monument that you can visit; a few steps from thr apartment (1300 meters, walking along the river, surrounded by the panorama of Florence). The church is buried the elite of the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Dante and Machiavelli.

The tickets can be booked online (http://www.santacroceopera.it/en/default.aspx). A tip: on the left side of the church there is a small door for those who want to enter just to pray. You do not need a ticket and can only be accessed at Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, which are the most beautiful part of the church.
Here in 1817 the presence of the tombs of the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Stendahl had his famous mental disorder; from that moment on mental disorders due to hyperstimulation cultural are called syndrome stendhal.