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Sightseeing: |
HISTORY |
Its history from the time it became an independent city state is dominated |
Then came the Republic, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Lorraines – who opened the
road to European high society – and finally Italian Unity. By then an indisputable cultural
capital, Florence played a leading role in the years of anti-Fascism and post-war
regeneration. Its burgeoning growth was dramatically marred by the great flood of
1966. |
The words ‘Florence’ and ‘art’ are always uttered in the same breath. Great
Italian painting was born here and here you can find the finest Renaissance
achievements in the fields of civil and religious architecture, sculpture and
painting. The Renaissance could never have come about, though, were it not
for the earlier great artistic flowering that occurred during the Romanesque
and Gothic period between the 11th and 13th centuries, a time of great
economic prosperity for Florence. |