• Meet with your tour guide and visit the ancient English Cemetery of Florence.
• Walk among the tombstones and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of such a beautiful and charming cemetery, also called the Island of Dead.
• Listen to the history of this place and the stories of some of the amazing people buried here: poets and writers, scientists and pastors, artists and adventurers by your tour guide. The tombs will unveil many different communities of foreigners in Florence during the XIX century. Not just English people, but ex-pats from 16 different countries who lived and died in Florence, including celebrities like the British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
• Your tour guide will talk about:
  • The cemetery symbolism and iconography.
  • The history of the English Cemetery
  • The history of the foreign communities in Florence
  • The notable people buried here, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Freedom, love, art and the fight against slavery

Feel free to ask any kind of question about them!