Conspicuously white, small church on the bank of Arno, on top of small, thin, Gothic turrets. It’s also special for me because I had seen just large Gothic churches. Opening hours: October to March: Tuesday-Sunday 10-14.; April to September: Tuesday-Friday 10-14 and 15-18 Saturday and Sunday 10-14 and 15-19. Closed on monday.

Very beautiful from the outside and apparently housing a Holy relic, but although listed as being open at the weekend, we never found it so.

A beautiful little church on the south bank of the river, now used mostly as an art gallery. If no exhibition it is only open in teh early evening.

it was small, closed and totally pointless to make an effort to see. Theres so much more beautiful and cultural things to see. It really is just a nothing to a tourist who is looking to see something impressive. Its a small church. Thats it

Everything in Florence was built in greatness and enormous in sizes but this church was humbly constructed on a very small scale in 1230 but it was really worth a visit. It sits right by the Arno river and you can't miss it on your way to the Piazza dei Miracoli from the train station.

Santa Maria della Spina is more interesting from the outside as it is an architecture masterpiece of Gotic Style, if you manage to find it open do visit, it will take you about 10 minutes.

Santa Maria della Spina is a charming little church perched above the Arno like a cathedral in miniature. The designs on the exterior are worth a close look. It is fascinating to learn that the church once sat below the Lungarno and was disassembled and moved above the river. The interior is done in old wood with interesting painted beams,... More

Beautiful looking but very small. When we visited it was being used as an art gallery which was quite interesting

This is such a picturesque church, in such a lovely setting. Definitely worth going to look. Unfortunately it has limited opening hours and when we went there was a contemporary art exhibition inside which rather distracted from the interior