Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella sets its roots back to 1221. Founded as a Dominican friars
conventum, it is renowned from its beginnings for the cultivation of medicinal plants, the formulation of perfumes
and cosmetics, the creation of candles and liqueurs. Its apothecary art legacy crosses eight centuries and is deeply
intertwined with Florence history, personalities, power and social tissue in an alchemy of tales and wonders. The
oldest pharmacy in the world, it carries its activities in the very places where they all began, uniquely, more than
800 years ago.
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