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| Palazzo degli |
Uffizi | |
Galleria dell' |
Accademia | |
Museo |
| dell’Opera |
del |
Duomo |
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Museo |
di |
S. |
Marco |
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Museo |
nazionale del Bargello | Museo |
| Archeologico |
Nazionale |
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Boboli-Gärten |
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Dom |
S. |
| Maria |
del |
Fiore |
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S. |
Miniato |
al |
Monte |
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Palazzo |
Pitti |
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| S. |
Spirito |
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Baptisterium |
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Orsanmichele |
Palazzo |
| Vecchio | |
S. Trinità |
| S. |
Maria |
Novella | |
S. Marco |
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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 |
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| Biblioteca |
Laurenziana |
| |
Badia |
Fiornetina |
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Piazzale |
| Michelangiolo |
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Cappelle |
Medicee |
| |
Museo |
Horne |
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| Museo |
Bardini |
Opificio |
delle |
pietre |
dure |
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Mercato |
Centrale |
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 |
| 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. |
