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Extract from the Empoli and Vinci Travel Guides:
Most people don't bother with
EMPOLI
, a modern and heavily industrial town 32km west of Florence, but it does have a quality museum of Renaissance art. If you can spare time, head left out of the station on Viale Martino and then right on Via Leonardo da Vinci to reach the ancient arcaded Piazza Farinata degli Uberti, overlooked by the
Museo della Collegiata
(Tues-Sun 9am-noon & 4-7pm; joint ticket with Museo Leonardiano in Vinci L8000/?4.13), with Masolino's moving fresco of the piet in the Baptistry, a cloister full of technicolour Della Robbia terracottas, and works by Monaco and Fra' Filippo Lippi upstairs. O...
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