Florence Landmarks and Historic sites

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The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval bridge over the Arno River and is noted for shops built along it. The Butchers used to occupy the shops but the present tenants are jewelers, souvenir sellers and art dealers. This bridge has been...

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Address: Ponte Vecchio + Share

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With it's long arcades and it's final arc, it represents the greatest work by Vasari. It is the symbol of Florentine art and inside it houses the famous and hononymous gallery, which holds masterpieces of different periods.

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Address: Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze + Share

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The Duomo - Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church which is located in Florence in Itlay. The construction of this amazing historic building began in 1296 in Gothic style and designed by Arnolfo di...

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Address: Piazza Del Duomo, 17 + Share

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The Santa Maria Novella church is situated across the main railway station and is the first great basilica in Florence. It is also the city’s principal Dominican church. This historic building contains a store of art...

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Address: Piazza di Santa Maria Novella + Share

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The Basilica di Santa Croce is the principal Franciscan church situated in Florence and also a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. This is also the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians like...

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Address: Piazza Santa Croce, 16 + Share

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The original statue of Michelangelo David is located in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. It is kept along with other vital works like the four prisoners. The statue of David used to stand in front of Palazzo...

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Address: Piazza della Signoria, Firenze + Share

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For the past seven centuries it has been the focus of political and civic life of Florence, when it became the seat of the lordship in the sixteenth century, as well as withstanding numerous renovations and interior decoration, it became known as the...

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Address: Piazza della Signoria + Share

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One of the most interesting buildings in the city, which was the residence of the Medici, but also at the time of the Savoy back in the days when Florence was the capital (1865-1871). Inside, besides the splendid Palatine Gallery, there are also the...

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With it's octagonal shape and it's walls covered with white and green marble, the Baptistery of San Giovanni is an unmistakable symbol of the city. It is impossible not to be fascinated in front of his Heaven's Gate, a work of art whose decorations...

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Address: Piazza San Giovanni + Share

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It is one of the oldest churches in Florence, but acquired it's present appearance only in the fifteenth century. The façade has a renaissance print despite being incomplete, while inside it was decorated by the most famous Florentine artists of the...

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Address: Piazza San Lorenzo, Firenze + Share

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If you are in search of fortune Make a stop in this fountain, located at the edge of the Loggia of the new market "(Mercato Nuovo)". In fact , here the tradition says that who ever stops by the fountain has to perform a special ritual that consists on...

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Address: Via Pellicceria, 50123 Firenze + Share

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It is considered a masterpiece of the Renaissance sculpture, and after the restoration works, it shines again in the Bargello Museum. Completely in bronze, David was made by Donatello in 1440 to beautify the courtyard of the palace of the Medici.

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Address: Via del Proconsolo, 4 + Share

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The god of the sea Neptune, whose features recall the figure of Cosimo I de 'Medici, stands on a pedestal decorated in the center of the octagonal basin: the Neptune Fountain, located in Piazza della Signoria, near the north- west of the Old palace.

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Address: Piazza della Signoria, Firenze + Share

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"He was given to us by Heaven to invest architecture with new forms". In these words Vasari celebrated the ingenious architect whom Florence was fortunate enough to count among her sons between the end of the fourteenth ...

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Despite the rough and dark stone facade, very simple and attractive, this church is famous for what lies inside: first the beautiful Brancacci Chapel, with frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino, and then the other paintings and works of great artists...

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Address: Piazza del Carmine 14 + Share

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From the end of the eighteenth to the early years of the nineteenth centuries, international politics inevitably involved Tuscany, and Ferdinando III of Lorraine could not prevent the Grand Duchy from being occupied by Napoleon's army....

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NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY CULTURE AND CITY Throughout this century, Florence has been suffering from a process of degradation. The old structure can no longer cope with the demands of modern urban life and ...

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The city within the wall As the medieval period was drawing to its close, between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, the form of the city had been more or less stabilized. In...

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Most fascinating point of the Uffizi Gallery, this raised path serves as a link between Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. In it are exposed beautiful paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth century as well as numerous self-portraits of artists....

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Address: Lungarno degli acciaioli, Firenze + Share

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Jacob Burckhardt defined Florence as the rusticated stone city, and Venice as the clad city, thus succinctly summarizing the specific features of fifteenth century architecture in two different and contrasting cultural realities. And ...

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