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Florence, Italy: cradle of the Renaissance

Florence's museums, palaces, and churches house some of the greatest artistic treasures in the world. The most popular and important sites in Florence include the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the Uffizi, the Bargello, and the Accademia. The churches of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce are veritable art galleries, and the library of San Lorenzo is a magnificent exhibition of Michelangelo's architectural genius. Wander some of the oldest streets in the city until you reach the Arno River, cross the Ponte Vecchio, and experience the "newest" area of Florence, the Oltrarno.

Borgo Albizi

Piazza Santa Trinita

Giuseppe Zocchi - Piazza Santa Trinita

The ancient Roman column known as the Column of Justice due to the sculpture of "Justice" on the top. The Column of Justice originates from the Baths of Caracalla, and was a gift to Cosimo I de' Medici by Pope Pius IV. In 1581 the Justice statue by Tadda was added to the top of the column.

Piazza Santa TrinitaPalazzo Spini Feroni

Piazza Santa Trinita

Ponte Santa Trinita

Ponte Santa Trinita

Ponte Santa Trinita

Chiesa di San Jacopo Soprarno. The church is now deconsecrated, and used for a variety of cultural events.

Chiesa di San Jacopo Soprarno

Ponte Santa Trinita

Palazzo Strozzi faces the historical Via de' Tornabuoni.

The construction of the Palazzo Strozzi begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more important, a political statement of his own status.

The famous wrought-iron lanterns that decorate the corners of the palace exterior, are by an iron-worker named Caparra.

Filippo Strozzi died in 1491, long before the construction's completion in 1538. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici confiscated it in the same year, not returning it to the Strozzi family until thirty years later.

The palazzo remained the seat of the Strozzi family until 1937. Great changes were made to the building when the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni occupied Palazzo Strozzi

The palazzo, granted by the

Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni to the Italian State in 1999, is now

home to the Institute of Humanist

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Palazzo Strozzi.

The 6-metre-high bronze horse, entitled Run, Run, Old John by Sculptor Mario Ceroli (1938 - ) Piazza Strozzi

Run, Run, Old John by Sculptor Mario Ceroli (1938 - )

Sculptor Mario Ceroli (1938 -) is: “one of the least known yet most influential artists of the Italian post-war scene.” According to the New York Times

The 6-metre-high bronze horse, entitled Run, Run, Old John by Sculptor Mario Ceroli (1938 - ) Piazza Strozzi

These wrought-iron ornaments, lanterns, torch holders, and rings on the corners of the Palazzo Strozzi, were designed and made by Niccolò Grosso Caparra, an Italian craftsman, around 1500.

The Palazzo Strozzi hosts three major exhibitions annually2013 Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400-60 · An Idea of Beauty

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Two piazzas in the Renaissance city of Florence was home to the monumental sculptures of Salvador Dalí. These creations by The Master Of Surrealism was on public view until 25 March 2013.Surrealist Piano, is a 4.5 metre high bronze sculpture of a grand piano crowned by a golden ballerina and is located in the Piazza della Accademia on the corner of Via Riscali and Via degli Alfani

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The Galleria dell'Accademia was founded in 1784; it adjoins the Accademia di Belle Arti in via Ricasoli, but is otherwise unconnected with it. It has housed the original David by Michelangelo since 1873.

The image of the Space Elephant was born in 1946 when Dalí painted the Temptation of Saint Anthony in which an elephant carries an obelisk across the Egyptian desert. This image represented the progress of technology in the modern world. This monumental artwork is situated in the Piazza della Stazione just in front of the Santa Maria Novella train station

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