From Piazzale Michelangelo you have the best vie of the City of Florence and its valley. The best is to walk up from San Niccolo’,it will take you 5/10 minutes.The square was build along the boulevard that go around Florence by the architect Ugo Poggi, when Florence was the Capital of Italy for a few years.Poggi also designed a amazing panoramic loggia , that now host a restaurant , this is the best place to see the “fuochi during the night of “San Giovanni”