Church tower, Santa Maria Novella .

Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy,
situated just across the main railway station which shares its name.
Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence,
and is the city's principal Dominican church.
The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures
and funerary monuments. Especially famous are frescoes by masters of Gothic
and early Renaissance. They were financed through the generosity of the
most important Florentine families, who ensured themselves of
funerary chapels on consecrated ground.