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Palazzo Pitti
Villen bei Fiesole
Blick auf den Duomo
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Sightseeing:

Palazzo degli Uffizi | Galleria dell' Accademia | Museo
dell’Opera del Duomo | Museo di S. Marco | Museo

nazionale del Bargello | Museo

Archeologico Nazionale | Boboli-Gärten | Dom S.
Maria del Fiore | S. Miniato al Monte | Palazzo Pitti |
S. Spirito | Baptisterium | Orsanmichele Palazzo
Vecchio | S. Trinità | S. Maria Novella | S. Marco | Ss.
Annunziata | Hospital der Unschuldigen Kinder | S.
Lorenzo | Palazzo Medici Riccardi | Palazzo Davanzati
| S. Croce | S. Maria del Carmine – Cappella Brancacci
| Palazzo Rucellai | Campanile di Giotto | Ponte
Vecchio | Uffizien | Loggia della Signoria | Piazza della
Signoria | Palazzo Strozzi | Palazzo Antinori |
Biblioteca Laurenziana | Badia Fiornetina | Piazzale
Michelangiolo | Cappelle Medicee | Museo Horne |
Museo Bardini Opificio delle pietre dure | Mercato

Centrale

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HISTORY

The Roman town of Florentia was founded during the Ludi floreales period in honour of the
goddess Flora. It saw Greek and Syrian merchants, Barbarian peoples, Byzantines,
Lombards and Carolingians come and go. The city finally attained independent status after a

series of economic ups and downs, battles for church reform and struggles for freedom.

Its history from the time it became an independent city state is dominated
by the power of the merchants – who were organised into Arti or Guilds,

Guelph and Ghibbeline rivalry and struggles with other Tuscan cities for dominion of the area.
This period was followed by the Signorie and the all-powerful, almost royal Medici family who
brought Florence a long period of prosperity and learning and were also responsible for making

the city the cradle of Humanism.

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.
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