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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.

Piazza dei Ciompi, named for the "Ciompi" or wool carders of Florence (and their eponymous revolt in 1378), occupies a working class corner of Florence north of Piazza Santa Croce and close to Piazza Sant'Ambrogio.

Piazza dei Ciompi

A graceful 16th century construction, the Loggia del Pesce by Giorgio Vasari, now stands at the north end of the Piazza.

Tabernacolo di Sant'AmbrogioGiovanni della Robbia (1525)

Tabernacolo di Sant'AmbrogioGiovanni della Robbia (1525)

Giovanni della Robbia Tabernacolo di Sant'Ambrogio, 1525 (Detail)

Allegedly built where Saint Ambrose would have stayed when in Florence in 393, the church is first recorded in 998. The first building is thought to date from the 8th century, as a chapel of a nunnery built in honour of the saint.Francesco Granacci (1469–1543), an Italian painter of the Renaissance and lifelong friend of Michelangelo Buonarroti, is buried in this church.

The church contains numerous frescos, altarpieces, and other artwork attributed to Andrea Orcagna, Agnolo Gaddi, Niccolò Gerini, Lorenzo di Bicci, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Alesso Baldovinetti, Mino da Fiesole, Cosimo Rosselli, Fra Bartolomeo, and many other artists.Filippo Lippi's Incoronation of the Virgin, executed for the church's main altar in 1441-1447, is now at the Uffizi.

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The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross)

The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross)

The Basilica di Santa Croce

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Donatello - L'Annunciazione (particolare della Madonna), Firenze, Santa Croce, 1435ca

San Miniato al Monte

San Miniato al Monte

The Chiesa di Ognissanti (All-Saints Church) is a Franciscan church founded by the lay order of the Umiliati, dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known and unknown. It was completed during the 1250s, but almost completely rebuilt on Baroque designs of Bartolomeo Pettirossi, about 1627, with a façade by Matteo Nigetti

The façade - by Matteo Nigetti (1637) - conserved the grand glazed terracotta lunette in the manner of the Della Robbia, now attributed to Benedetto Buglioni, over the doorway. To the left of the façade is a campanile of 13th and 14th century construction.

Giotto di Bondone (1267 – 1337)Ten years for restauration by l'Opificio delle Pietre dureBlue Lapis lazuli

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494), Cenacolo di Ognissanti (1480)

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Plaque, dated 1510, for the family tomb of Mariano Filipepi and his sons, including the painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, best known as Sandro Botticelli. In Ognissanti church in Florence, Italy.

Altare della Trinità

Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

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Tomb of Amerigo Vespucci, died 1471, actually the

grandfather of the famous navigator

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - 1494)Deposizione e Madonna dell'Umiltà

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 - 1494) St Jerome in his study

Sandro Botticelli, Sant'Agostino nello studio

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Sandro Botticelli Pala di Sant'Ambrogio, c. 1467-1470 Galleria degli Uffizi

Loggia del Mercato Nuovo

The Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, popularly known as the Loggia del Porcellino is so called to distinguish it from the Mercato vecchio (old market, located in the area of today's Piazza della Repubblica.The loggia was built around the middle of the 16th centuryThe focal point of the loggia is the Fontana del Porcellino ("fountain of the piglet"), actually a copy of a bronze wild boar by Pietro Tacca from the sixteenth century; the original can be found at Palazzo Pitti.

Popular tradition has it that rubbing the nose brings fortune, so over time, the statue has acquired a certain shine in that spot. Visitors are encouraged to place a coin in the mouth of the boar after rubbing its nose, and superstition implies that the wish will be granted if the offering tumbles through the grate whence the water flows. The slope of the grate is such that most coins do fall through, and are collected by the city.

Loggia del Porcellino by night

Porta Romana

Sound: Andrea Bocelli - Il Mistero Dell' Amore

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