In a few months, a comprehensive virtual tour of Santa Croce, one of
Florence’s most famous churches, will be available to visitors on a large
touch-screen located in the crypt.
Since 2002, images of every room of the thirteenth-century basilica have
been digitized and catalogued, the contents of the church described both
visually and with detailed historical information.
The virtual tour, which will cost approximately one million euro to
create, will feature some 3,500 works in the church, including Giotto’s
frescoes, as well as the tombs and memorials of the great and grand, among them
Michelangelo, Macchiavelli, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Dante and Galileo. The tour will
allow visitors to view the works from varying perspectives, including zooming
in to see the details.
