Piazza della Santissima Annunziata

This guide to Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence starts at the foundling wheel set into the loggia, the wooden cylinder where mothers once left infants at the Ospedale degli Innocenti without ever being seen. It covers Filippo Brunelleschi's arcaded loggia, begun in 1419 for the city's silk guild, the first child who arrived there in 1445, and the keepsakes some mothers tucked in hoping to reclaim their children. Then turn to the piazza's center, where a bronze rider on horseback watches over the square.