Florence narrated in the Inferno novel by Dan Brown

In the places of Florence where Inferno – the famous novel by Dan Brown – takes places, there are some of the most majestic palaces and monuments of the city. Millions of tourists who arrive to Florence visit them, in a city unique for the quantity and quality of works of art as well as for its brand shops.
In its novel Inferno, Dan Brown chooses not only the places of the medieval Florence where Dante lived. He includes in the plot of his story also scenarios that refer to works and Renaissance buildings, dating back to the time of the famous Florentine poet.
In the plot of Dan Brown’s novel the main characters are stalked and hunted down in the city of Florence as a background to their adventure escape. Their itinerary leads to wonderful and famous places. Inferno brings to light ancient places and secret passages largely unknown also to the inhabitants of the city.
The route of flight starts from Porta Romana. This place is still one of the access points in the city from which thousands of people enter daily. On the right side of the Porta Romana there is one of the entrances of the Boboli Gardens. The main entrance is located adjacent to the Pitti Palace.
In the plot of the novel by Dan Brown Inferno the protagonists go through the Boboli Gardens and use them as a way to enter into the city, while avoiding the capture by many followers who are looking for them. Despite the danger Professor Robert Langdon cannot ignore the beauty of one of the most beautiful and important Gardens in the world. Boboli Gardens are characterized by ponds, fountains, paths, wooden domes and sculptures scattered over the vast surface of the Boboli Gardens.
After crossing the Garden the protagonists of the novel by Dan Brown Inferno should come close to the Pitti Palace, the former residence of the Medici family first and of the Habsburg Lorraine later. From the Pitti Palace Robert Langdon and Sienna Brooks continue their escape though the famous and exclusive Vasari Corridor, which has become one of the largest painting galleries in the world.

The Vasari Corridor is a passage that was commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici to the architect Giorgio Vasari in order to have a direct and safe passageway that links Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti. In Dan Brown’s book the Buontalenti Grotto is used as an entrance leading to the Vasari Corridor’s small door which is next to the Grotto of Buontalenti. This entrance still exists and leads to the Uffizi Gallery.
The story continues with the arrival in the Palazzo Vecchio, where the two main characters constantly chased dwell in the majestic hall of the sixteenth century while searching clues to solve the mystery that haunts them. They go through various secret passages of Palazzo Vecchio, out of which the two protagonists come and cross Via della Ninna to reach the adjacent streets.
Once in the heart of what was the medieval area of Florence, the protagonists of the novel by Dan Brown visit Dante’s house, now converted into a museum dedicated to the great poet.
The novel’s scenario moves nothing to the Baptistery of San Giovanni, just adjacent to the facade of the Florence Cathedral. In the novel by Dan Brown is given great prominence to the golden door of Paradise. Inside the Baptistery the protagonists of the story observe the representations of various levels of heaven and hell, very similar to those described in the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) by Dante. The great poet Dante was baptized in this place, as all citizens of Florence did until the last century.
What it is discovered in the Baptistery bring the plot of the story to move in the city of Venice, where the novel by Dan Brown – Inferno – continues with a series of twists and turns until the final epilogue.