Florence

In addition to the Uffizi, Florence has other museums which would be the main artistic attraction than any other major city in the world: the Accademia Gallery, the Bargello and the Pitti Palace with its eight museums, including the Palatine Gallery. The Florentines boast of possessing the best example of beauty in both women (of Botticelli's Venus) and male (the David of Michelangelo).
Historic Centre of Florence

World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982, the historic center of Florence, enclosed by a circle of paths traced over the old medieval walls, collects the most important cultural heritage of the city. Bounded by the trace of the wall of the fourteenth century and was built thanks to the commercial and economic power reached, he met the next two centuries its peak.

The town can be appreciated in its entirety from the surrounding hills, especially by Forte Belvedere, from the Piazzale Michelangelo with the Romanesque Basilica of San Miniato al Monte and the hills of Fiesole, which offers one of the most beautiful views of the valley ' Arno.


The left bank of the Arno (the Oltrarno) is an area rich in monuments which can still be felt, in his old craft shops, the atmosphere of Florence for a time, for example, described by Vasco Pratolini. But there are many literary ideas throughout the city: the neighborhoods of the tower houses, where the tombstones recall the ways that these places inspired by Dante Alighieri, the serenity of the Medici villas, where they often met the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo the Magnificent , to the theaters to the Pergola and the Boboli Gardens, where they were staged for the first time melodramas that led to opera.

Florence as the "cradle of the Renaissance" has its masterpieces in the works of Filippo Brunelleschi (the Hospital of the Innocents, the church of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito) and Leon Battista Alberti (the facade of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai) but other periods have left their artistic masterpieces: the Romanesque San Miniato al Monte, the Gothic Santa Croce (where are the graves of the Italic glories, as defined Ugo Foscolo, he also buried there), the vagaries of Giambologna's Mannerist Bernardo Buontalenti or (as the Fountain of Neptune or the Garden of Boboli), up to the masterpieces of the great Italian architects of the twentieth century as the resort of Santa Maria Novella and the Stadio Artemio Franchi, respectively Giovanni Michelucci and Pier Luigi Nervi .

The center of Florence, with its hundreds of business is a paradise for shopping and leisure, from the chic boutiques, cafes and historic concert by the lively outdoor market historians, as well as host to numerous nightclubs, discos , American bar, lounge bar and meeting places for drinks (the famous Negroni cocktail was born here).