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The best-known site and crowning architectural jewel of Florence is the domed cathedral of the city, Santa Maria del Fiore, known as The Duomo. The magnificent dome was built by Filippo Brunelleschi. The nearby Campanile tower (partly designed by Giotto) and the Baptistery buildings are also highlights
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Accademia & Michelangelo's DavidFlorence - The Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno of Florence was the first academy of drawing in Europe. It was founded in 1561 with high patronage of the Medici by Giorgio Vasari, Agnolo Bronzino and Bartolommeo Ammannati, three of the central artists of Mannerism. At first the academy met in the cloisters of the Church ... |
Arno RiverFlorence - The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa. It is the largest river in the region ... |
Boboli GardensFlorence - The Boboli Gardens are a famous park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a small but distinguished collection of sculptures. The Gardens, behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, is one of the most familiar formal 16th century Italian gardens ... |
Ponte VecchioFlorence - The Ponte Vecchio (Italian for Old Bridge) is a famous medieval bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy, noted for having shops (mainly jewellers) built along it. It is Europe's oldest segmental arch bridge. Believed to have been first built in Roman times, it was originally made of wood ... |
Santa Maria del FioreFlorence - The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church, or Duomo, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, noted for its distinctive dome. Its name refers to the lily, symbol of Florence, or to the old town name Fiorenza. But a 15th c. document on the other hand states that the flower refers to Christ ... |
Uffizi Gallery & Botticelli's Birth of VenusFlorence - The Uffizi Gallery is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the most famous museums in the world. Building of the palace was commenced in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the magistrates- hence the name uffizi, meaning offices. Construction work ended in 1581 ... |
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