The museum paths
The museum is committed to the enhancement of its territory through the wide range of educational services offered by the Educational Services for schools of all levels. The didactic proposal is calibrated in such a way as to offer schools an opportunity to enrich their educational plans. For this reason we offer interdisciplinary, engaging and interactive educational programs.
Time Travel
In the enchanting medieval village of Certaldo Alto at the Convent of the Augustinians, you can live a wonderful adventure!
The thematic project that the Cultural Association “I Viaggiatori del Tempo” has been carrying out for twenty years, allows all the participants to actively interact in an educational, formative and playful way, together with the most famous characters of History, Legend and Fairy tale.
Among the proposed themes:: Ancient Rome, The Legend of King Arthur, Assault on the Castle, A World of Fairy Tale, The Magical Kingdom of Camelot, The Enchantment of the Four Seasons....
The paths are realized with spectacular involvement, thanks to the professionalism of the actors/educators of the association and to the thematic costumes provided to all the participants, at the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Convent and in the suggestive village.
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Cerrus altus
Departure: Convent
A tour of Cerrus Altus, or rather of the village in the days when it was born as a castle, in the days of battles, of the construction of walls, towers, and fortifications. Days in which clashes are the order of the day, in which the great families compete for property and domains in the countryside, just like our Counts Alberti... at least until an even greater and more destructive power appears on the horizon, and takes everything: Florence.
Without museums: walk around the village, stopping at the main points, tour of the walls, and entrance to the church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo.
Duration: 1 hour and a half
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people)
With museums: walking tour of the village with a tour of the walls, entrance to Palazzo Pretorio and the Church of Saints Tommaso and Prospero, to the Church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, to the Convent Museum (Sacred Art), and finally to Casa Boccaccio.
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people) + cost of museum ticket
Focus on Certaldo Alto
Departure: Convent
This walk will take us around the medieval village, to discover the streets, the houses, the monuments and the history of what, from a simple castle of the Alberti Counts, became the cradle of Giovanni Boccaccio, of Beata Giulia, and the seat of a Florentine Vicariate that lasted 300 years.
Without museums: walk around the village, stopping at the main points, tour of the walls, and entrance to the church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo.
Duration: 1 hour and a half
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people)
With museums: walking tour of the village with a tour of the walls, entrance to Palazzo Pretorio and the Church of Saints Tommaso and Prospero, to the Church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, to the Convent Museum (Sacred Art), and finally to Casa Boccaccio.
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people) + cost of museum ticket
The story of another vicar of Certaldo: the religious one
Departure: Convent
Without museums: An external tour of the village that will lead us to know another historical aspect of this place: the religious one. From the treasures inside the church of Santi Jacopo e Filippo (which we will be able to enter without a ticket) born in other times and perhaps for other places, to the great devotion for Beata Giulia; from the "quarrels" between the powerful Augustinians and the Gianfigliazzi family, to the unfortunate history of the church of Saints Tommaso e Prospero, up to the small objects of devotion scattered here and there in the village.
Duration: 1 hour and a half
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people)
With Museums: Discovering another Vicariate led by Certaldo: the ecclesiastical one. A history made up of parish churches and medieval churches still immersed among vineyards and olive groves in the Tuscan countryside around Certaldo, and that we will visit through the objects collected in the former Augustinian Convent (now, in fact, Museum of Sacred Art) and within the walls of the two main churches of the village: the church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, and the former church of Saints Tommaso and Prospero (the cumulative ticket also includes the Palace and the House of Boccaccio).
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people) + cost of museum ticket
Daily life at the time of Boccaccio
Departure: Convent
A tour of the village that will take us, through its monuments, streets, churches, palaces, to take a look at the life that animated these places in the century in which our Giovanni Boccaccio lived: the fourteenth century. What and how did they eat in those times? How did peasants, monks and artisans live? How did they build houses and everything we can still see today? And what are the tower-houses?
Without museums: walk around the village, stopping at the main points, tour of the walls, and entrance to the church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo.
Duration: 1 hour and a half
Cost: 135 € per group (max 30 people)
With museums: walking tour of the village with stops at the main points, tour of the walls, the wash houses, entrance to the Convent Museum (Sacred Art), the church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, Palazzo Pretorio and the church of Saints Tommaso and Prospero, to finish at the house-tower of Boccaccio.
Duration: 2 hours
Costo: 135 € per gruppo (max 30 persone) + costo biglietti museale
