Quite the landmark beside a major street and tram station. The arch is huge and the color of the…read morebrick is classic. It allows for you to easily identify the area from afar. A few crosswalks too make getting across easily.

Interesting history here, being one of the oldest surviving gates of Florence, it dates back to…read more1285, the year in which they began the sixth circle of walls around the city. The door is named dall'antistante square called Il Prato, or square of Porta al Prato. It is not named by the fact that it starts a road that also leads to Prato. In ancient times this area was not paved and kept that way for the weekly cattle market. Hint: If you are here then you must go to the restaurant across the street, Bar Porta Al Prato. It has everything from cold beer and great wines to gelato to pizza and pasta. Indoors or patio.

Located in the middle of the square, the Column of Justice is an ancient granite Roman column named…read moreafter the sculpture on its top. It actually came from the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The column itself was a gift from Pope Pius IV to Cosimo I, while the figure of Justice was added almost twenty years later - in 1581. Gaze at the monument for a few minutes; most people just walk by without noticing it.