Florence, the jewel of the Italian Renaissance, is one of the
world's great historic cities. It is a commercial, industrial, and tourist center. Tourism
is the main industry, which is supported by the manufacture of glassware, precious
metalware, leatherwork, ceramics, clothing, shoes, and art reproductions. Florence was the
capital of newly unified Italy from 1865 to 1871. Built on the site of an Etruscan
settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural
pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of
extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), the Church of Santa Croce, the Uffizi, the Palazzo
Vecchio and the Pitti Palace, the work of great masters such as Giotto, Brunelleschi,
Botticelli and Michelangelo. The entire Historic Centre of Florence is a World Heritage
site of Unesco since 1982. In the Justification of Unesco for listing Florence in the
World Heritage list is written: "the greatest concentration of universally
renowed works of art in the world is found here".
For start the visit look at
the index-pages on the right
| In Florence worked or were born:
Giotto, Dante Alighieri, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Boccaccio,
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) , Niccolò Machiavelli, Lorenzo dè Medici detto il
Magnifico, Pietro Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo), Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511- Firenze1574), Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Niccolò Pericoli (il
Tribolo) (Firenze 1500-1558), Leon Battista Alberti, Masaccio, Donatello, Marsilo Ficino,
Pico della Mirandola, Amerigo Vespucci, Toscanelli, Francesco Guicciardini, Bartolomeo
Ammannati (Settignano 1511 - Firenze 1592), Galileo Galilei, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Giambologna ... |
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HOTELS IN FLORENCE |
