To get a feel for the layout of the city, tackle the 414 steps to the top of Giotto’s Campanile (Piazza del Duomo). The bell tower offers magnificent views over the sea of terracotta rooftops in ...

Inside, look out for Paolo Uccello’s famous fresco of the 14th-century British mercenary, Sir John Hawkwood and climb the 414 steep, narrow steps of Giotto’s slim bell-tower for a bird’s-eye ...

Then Giotto di Bondone, a Tuscan farmer’s boy, broke the spell. He changed the course of art by proving that spirit and flesh, holiness and reality, could be pictured together as one image.