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Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany and its rich historical, artistic and cultural heritage make it one of the main tourist destinations in Italy and Europe.Founded in the first century A.C. by the Romans, Florence has been through many prosperous and dark periods. The city experienced the battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, it was a Commune and then a "Signoria" under the Medici during the Renaissance. It was part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany first with the Medici and then under the Lorraines during the 18th century, up until it became a part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Cimabue, Dante Alighieri, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli and Michelangelo are just a few of the famous Tuscan artists who contributed to making Florence such a beautiful and important city in the world.

Torre de la Badia

Fiorentina

The Badìa Fiorentina is an

abbey and church founded

as a Benedictine institution in 978, situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of

Florence.Dante

supposedly grew up across

the street in what is now called the

'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum

to Dante

Piazza San Firenze

La Campanile di Badia

Piazza San Firenze is a small square in Florence just east of Piazza della Signoria. On it stands the Law Courts, fronted by an impressive facade and designed in 1667 by Pier Francesco Silvani.

Chiesa di Santa Margherita in Santa Maria de' Ricci a Firenze

Founded in 1508The 17th century saw the addition of the façade with the loggia by the architect Gherardo Silvani (c. 1640). The baroque interior, with its aide-less nave, was created in 1769-1772 by Zanobi del Rosso

Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

"Museum of Dante's House" in Florence is a typical medieval home with a small museum dedicated to Italy's greatest poet since antiquity Dante's house is located between the little square and the street named after Saint Margaret, Santa Margherita, next to the Torre della Castagna

Chiesa di Santa Margherita

Dedicated to Margaret of Antioch, first recorded in 1032. Contains a fine altarpiece of the Madonna and Four Saints by Neri di Bicci.

Chiesa di Santa Margherita may have been the location of Dante's marriage to Gemma Donati in 1295. It was certainly the Donati family's parish church and also contains several tombs of the Portinari family, to which Dante's great love Beatrice Portinari belonged, including Monna Tessa, her nursemaid.

Marie Spartali Stillman, Beatrice, 1895

Chiesa di Santa Margherita Visitors may write letters to Beatrice to ask her to fix their love lives, leaving the letters in a basket next to her shrine.

Florence centro

storico is very

intersting place.

Ambient atmosphere

is so nice and relaxing

in spite of crowds of

tourists. It is nice to stroll along small

streets, wander into

shops or small

churches

Via dei Calzaiuoli

Via dei CalzaiuoliChiesa di Orsanmichele

Via degli Speziali

Via degli Speziali

Piazza della Repubblica (Republic Square) is on the site, first of the city's forum and then of the city's old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works or Risanamento initiated during the brief period when Florence was the capital of a reunited Italy

Via degli Speziali

Piazza della Repubblica Colonna dell‘Abbondanza

Palazzo Signoria e Corridoio Vasariano

The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano) is an elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, central Italy, which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. Beginning on the south side of the Palazzo Vecchio, it then joins the Uffizi Gallery and leaves on its south side, crossing the Lungarno dei Archibusieri and then following the north bank of the River Arno until it crosses the Ponte Vecchio.

The Vasari Corridor was built in 5 months by order of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1564, to the design of Giorgio Vasari. It was commissioned in connection with the marriage of Cosimo's son, Francesco, with Johanna of Austria. The idea of an enclosed passageway was motivated by the Grand Duke's desire to move freely between his residence and the government palace, when, like most monarchs of the period, he felt insecure in public, in his case especially because he had replaced the Republic of Florence.

In the middle of Ponte Vecchio the corridor is characterized by a series of panoramic windows facing the Arno, in the direction of the Ponte Santa Trinita. These replaced the smaller windows of the original construction in 1939, by order of Benito Mussolini. The larger windows were installed for an official visit to Florence by Adolf Hitler to give him a panoramic view of the river.

After the Ponte Vecchio the Corridor passes over the loggiato of the church of Santa Felicita; at that point it had a balcony, protected by a thick railing, looking into the interior of the church, in order to allow the Grand Duke's family to follow services without mixing with the populace.In its Uffizi section the Vasari Corridor is used to exhibit the museum's famous collection of self-portraits.

Ponte Vecchio, the oldest of Florence's six bridges, is one of the city's best known images. Probably going back to Roman times with its stone pillars and wooden planks; it was built in stone but then newly destroyed by a flood in 1333. It was built again twelve years later, perhaps by Neri da Fioravante (or Taddeo Gaddi, according to Giorgio Vasari).

Ponte alle Grazie

Vasari Corridor

Walk with the Bride over the Ponte Vecchio

The five arches became three and the main part was widened. The shops, housed under the porticos, first belonged to the Commune which then rented them out. But later on, towards the 15th century, they were sold to private owners and began to change through subsequent additions, raised parts and external terraces, extending towards the river and altering the original architecture in an anarchical, suggestive way.

Shops on the Ponte Vecchio

Under the sundial is a stone table, now almost illegible, which recalls: "In the year thirty-three after One Thousand Three Hundred, the bridge collapsed due to floods of water; twelve years later, as pleased the Commune, it was rebuilt with this ornamentation".

Ponte alle Grazie

In its Uffizi section the Vasari Corridor is used to exhibit the museum's famous collection of self-portraits.The area closest to the Uffizi entrance was heavily damaged by a terrorist attack commissioned by the Italian mafia in 1993. During the night of May 26, 1993 a car full of explosive was set off next to the Torre dei Pulci, located between via Lambertesca and via de' Georgofili, and 5 people died. Many others were injured and several houses were heavily damaged, including this section of the Uffizi Gallery and the Vasari Corridor. In the Corridor, several artworks were destroyed by the explosion. These paintings, some hopelessly damaged, have been pieced back together and placed back on their original spot to serve as a reminder of the horrible attack.

Ponte alle Grazie

Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi and Ponte alle Grazie

Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi

Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi

Ponte alle Grazie

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