The Chartreuse in Florence, imposing construction, is found On the summit of the hill of the Galluzzo you/he/she was realized on commission of the banker Niccolò Acciaiuoli in 1341, Gran Siniscalco of the Kingdom in Naples and Viceroy of Puglia, that it submitted him to the Carthusian monks. In origin the purpose of the structure was that to entertain the young people that wanted to undertake the humanistic studies. In 1810, we have the Napoleonic suppression, a lot of works of art were subtracted to the monastery and not all you/they could be recovered. The Carthusian monks abandoned the Chartreuse in 1866 in how much you/he/she had become of ownership of the State, up to that, in 1958, it returned to have been being managed for the monks but this time of the order cistercense. The Carthusian monks had completed numerous scientific studies their job it is documented from the presence of a sundial and two clocks horizontal places in the portico of the cloister. Other sundials and clocks we find her to
Montepescali (GR). Of these, one is circular and hands enrolled the 1849 date, while the other one introduces so many oblique lines dug in the rock that you/they would have given the possibility to read the time and the minutes. Today we are able usifruire local ancient delgli of the pharmacy, whose activity goes up again to Five hundred, and that today they are used for the production of liqueurs, honey, creams, jams, perfumes. In the Building Acciaiuoli, with fourteenth-century architectures, it is found: Pinacoteca with works of Pontormo, Orazio Fidani and Billivert.
As it is reached Loc. Galluzzo
, Street Of the Hole Of Chartreuse, 2, 50124 Florence (FI) Tel. 055.2049226
In auto: A1 gone out of Florence Sud, then the provincial one is taken for Galluzzo.
In train: station FS of Saint Maria Novella, then he continues with a local bus.
Hospitality All the visitors are welcomed.
Religious activity and opening: Winter: 9.00-12.00 and 15.00-17.00; summer: 9.00-12.00 and 15.00-18.00 (closed Monday)
Saints Harvest the Domenica Summer schedule: times 10.00 and 11.00 and 15.00-17.00
Saints Harvest the Domenica Winter schedule: times 10.00 and 11.00 and 15.00-16.15
Handicraft products The religious produce: liqueurs, honey, creams, jams, perfumes. To Know more of it: www.abbazie.com/certose/certosa_FI_it.html 
