Hill hardly to south of the historical center was realized from 1865 on design of Giuseppe architect Hills on one, to completion of the jobs of requalification of the left river of the Arno. From that year in fact Florence they of Italy was understood and all the city was engaged in a urbanistico renewal, the so-called Reorganization, that is the bourgeois rebirth of the city: the tree-lined avenues of circonvallazione to the way of boulevard were created in place of wall of the skillful river, Public square of the Republic in the heart of the center was opened, and was opened the Tree-lined avenue of the Necks, one long tree-lined panoramic way 8 kilometers, to the apex of which the large square was realized. The report of the fast construction of this last enterprise has been detailed described from the Italian journalist Peter to us Ferrigni (famous with the pseudonym of Yorick) that it does not lack to report like a part of the fiorentini dispiacesse "for the excessive expense" of the construction.

The public square, dedicated to the great rinascimentale artist Michelangelo, introduces the copies of some its famous works conserved to Florence: the David and the four allegorie of the Nails head Medicee di San Lorenzo. These copies are realized in bronze, while it originates them to it are all in marble white man. The monument was carried on from nine seems of buoi the 25 june 1873.

The Hills designed also the loggia in neoclassico style that dominates the entire terrace and that today it accommodates a panoramic restaurant. In origin it would have had to accommodate a museum of works of Michelangelo, never realized. In the wall of the balcony, it mails under the loggia, there is a epigrafe to characters cubita them that it remembers its work: Giuseppe Hills architect fiorentino you round turn here its monument MCXXI.

The panorama embraces the heart of Florence, from the Strong Lookout to Croce Saint passing for lungarni and the bridges of Florence in sequence, above all the Old Bridge; they detach the Dome, the Old Palace, the Bargello and the octagonal bell tower of the Fiorentina Abbey, without to forget opposite hills to north about the city with to the center Fiesole and Settignano.

The Large square the tree-lined Michelangelo Tree-lined avenue can be approached in car covering, realized in those same years, or on foot salting the manumentali perrons said Rampe of Hills from Public square Hills in the quarter of Saint Niccolò.