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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

OltrarnoPiazza de Mozzi

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Stefano Bardini (1836–1922) was an Italian connoisseur and art dealer in Florence. Working as a restorer many well-known works of Renaissance art bear a Bardini provenience. His bequest to the city of Florence resulted in the opening of the Museo Bardini in 1923; the Giardino Bardini across from it is also his legacy

Oltrarno - Piazza de Mozzi - Il Giardino Bardini

Campanile di Santa Croce

The Giardino Bardini, an Italian Renaissance garden, opened only recently to the public, it is relatively little-known. The garden boasts many statues and panoramic views over the city. Wildlife in the garden includes rock pigeons, blackbirds and woodpigeons. Access is gained via the Via de' Bardi, just over the road from the Museo Bardini in the Oltrarno district of the city, although the gardens exit onto the Costa di San Giorgio, onto which the Forte di Belevedere and the Giardino di Boboli connect in turn.

Panoramic view over Florence from the Bardini Garden

Campanile di Santa Croce and Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Piazza dei Cavalleggeri

Palazzo Serristori is one of the most beautiful examples of Florentine aristocratic architecture, immersed in a context of rare beauty between aristocratic palaces and the church of St. Niccolò, in a unique strategic position overlooking Arno.The complex belonged for centuries to Serristori family, one of the most powerful and illustrious families of the city.

The oldest sources on the construction of the building date back to 1520-22 when Lorenzo Serristori commissioned a residence in a zone near the fulling mills in the area of San Niccolò in Oltrarno. Despite many changes, the palace kept its sixteenth century structure until the nineteenth century, when it was radically changed by Alfredo and Umberto Serristori, two of the last heirs of the family.

The opening in 1873 of Lungarno Serristori, in the places where a wing of the palace stood, led to radical changes to the building. The architect Mariano Falciani was entrusted with the project and designed the new facade on the river bank and the prospect of Piazza Demidoff.

Palazzo Serristori has been an animated center of social life and culture throughout the nineteenth century until almost the present day.Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother and King of Spain, Demidoff family, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Richard Wagner are among the many distinguished guests who have stayed in the palace.

Piazza Demidoff is one of the small squares of Oltrarno; it is characterized by the garden and by the monument to prince Nikolaj Demidoff.

Luca e Andrea della Robbia - Stemma di Jacopo Pazzi, 1460-1465. Palazzo Serristori

Until 19th Century at the place of this square on the side of palazzo Serristori (16th Century) were an open space and some ancient mills drawing water from the river, but Florence became temporary capital of Italy the Lungarno between Bridge alle Grazie and Piazza Poggi was built, and the open place was transformed in a more elegant square.This new square was dedicated to the Russian noble Nikolaj Demidoff, who had been ambassador in Florence in the years 1820-1828 and lived in palazzo Serristori: during that years Demidoff was a great benefactor for the city and financed several school and assistance institutes.

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inclemency.For a long time the

monument remained almost completely abandoned, until it

was restored in 1982.

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Firenze, su Lungarno Torrigiani

Palazzo Serristori

La Porta San Miniato fa parte della cerchia di mura di Firenze

Porta San Miniato

Via di Belvedere

The Lunette in glazed terracotta showing Santa Lucia between two angels, a work ascribed to Benedetto Buglioni (1461-1521), from the workshop of the Della Robbia.

Santa Lucia dei Magnoli is small and very old church flanked by the palaces of Via de' Bardi.

It suffered severe damage from repeated landslides from Costa San Giorgio, and was also known as Santa Lucia delle Rovinate

Following a tradition, Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Domenico met in 1211 in the hospital that was located at the side of the church

Lost art

Santa Lucia altarpiece of c.1445 by Domenico Veneziano, one of only two signed works by him to survive. The main panel Virgin and Child with Saints is now in the Uffizi, predella panels in Berlin, Washington DC and (The Annunciation and A miracle of St Zenobius) the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge UK

Via Bardi, Oltrarno

Giuliano Vangi (born 1931) is an Italian sculptor. He received in 2002, the Praemium Imperiale prize, category sculpture, considered the Nobel Prize of Arts.Vangi was born in Barberino di Mugello and studied in the Istituto d'Arte and Accademia di Belle Arti at Florence. In 1959 he moved to Brazil, where he produced abstract works using materials such as crystal, iron and steel. In 1962 he returned to Italy, first in Varese and then in Pesaro. Later he became a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and exhibited his work in numerous places in Italy.

Giuliano Vangi - San Giovanni Battista (Firenze, 1996)

Sound: Andrea Bocelli & Angela Gheorghiu - Musica proibita (Martino Stanislao Luigi Gastaldon)

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Pictures: Daniela Iacob & Internet

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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