Italy, Florence – Borgo Santi Apostoli church (00:03:41)

The church of the Santi Apostoli is a Catholic place of worship is one of the oldest and richest in history churches in Florence , where some of the oldest legends of the city originate and its centrality in popular festivals such as the explosion of the cart have earned it the popular nickname of “Old Cathedral of Florence”, despite has never been the cathedral of the city. The facade is in Romanesque style with a sixteenth-century portal attributed to the Pistoian Benedetto da Rovezzano. It overlooks the small square of Limbo , so called because in ancient times it housed a cemetery for children who died before being baptized, who, as Dante also describes in the Divine Comedy , remained in an indefinite area of ​​the afterlife called limbo. The small bell tower is by Baccio d’Agnolo from the 16th century