Florence

Chief town of Tuscany and the homonym province the City of Florence fù capital of Italy after the unification in the period had understood since 1865 to 1871.

Crossed by the river Arno florence in the past it resulted in medieval Europe an important cultural center, commercial and financial. To the population of the urban center they count over two hundred thousand residents in the outskirts, the population of the area Florentine subway counts around 550mila inhabitants. The city is considered the place of origin of the Renaissance recognized all over the world as one of the cribs of the art and the architecture, with the numerous historical buildings, monuments and rich museums like the Gallery of the Offices, the Palatine Gallery, the Bargello and the museums Building Pitti.  

Currently it is the most important center in Tuscany from the commercial and administrative point of view, Florence to the center of an ample basin to amphitheater, geographically surrounded on three sides from the clayey hills of north Careggi, northeast Fiesole, east Settignano, Arcetri, Imperial Knoll and south Bellosguardo. The lowland where the city rises you/he/she is crossed by the Arno the same city it divides its course between superior Valdarno and inferior Valdarno, and from smaller courses of water as the Mugnone, the Terzolle and the Heavy river.

In the city of Florece some historical Coffees are present point of meeting for artists, literates and men of culture, among which the Futurists and in which were formed new current artistic Florentine. Assembled in the city center the most greater they are found in plaza of the Republic as the Caffè Gilli, Paszkowski, Caffè Le Giubbe Rosse, Caffè Gambrinus. In plaza of the Signoria we find the Rivoire, in Via de' Tornabuoni il Caffè Giacosa, Gran Caffè Doney and the Procacci, while in the street Cavour is situated the Caffè Michelangiolo.  

As it regards the climate to Florence it results moderate continental with very warm summers and cold and damp winters. The precipitations result you primarily assemble in spring and autumn, season during which you/they can result abundant. The summer temperatures are sensitively taller than those than the coast for the scarce ventilation owed to the sheltered position of the city, the maximum values that can easily reach the 40°C. While during the winter months, the least temperatures can frequently go down of some degrees under him zero. The absolute maximum and least climatic historical values must be remembered that the thermometer you/they have brought to to to graze to Florence the 44°C in July 1983 and to go down below the -23°C in January 1985.  

The metropolitan area of florence the environments have rare natural spaces and the hilly zones have been having for centuries an agricultural and housing vocation, with the native woods strongly meeting places, especially in the zones to south and to east of the city. In the plain one they are present damp areas not urbanized of the city along the river Arno.

The historical center in Florence declared in the 1982 Patrimony of the humanity by the UNESCO results delimited inside the entourage of the avenues traced on the old medieval boundaries, it picks up the most important cultural good in Florence between monuments and museums. Delimited by the layout of the building entourage of the XIV century, built thanks to the reached commercial and economic power, it knew in the two following centuries his maximum shine. Hills give Florentine the historical center can be appreciated in its beauty particularly way from the Strong Belvedere, from the Square Michelangelo with the Romanesque Basilica of St. Miniated to the Mountain and from the hill of Fiesole that offers one of the most suggestive panoramas of the valley of the Arno. Among the principal monuments to be visited the escort companions they advise to visit during the itineraries, in the heart of the city the Fountain of the Neptune, said by the Florentines "Biancone", a masterpiece of marmoreal sculpture to work of the Ammannati, posts to the result of an aqueduct Roman still funzionante. The river Arno, that passes in the middle of the old part of the city, it occupies a place in the Florentine history to the equal one with the people that live us. Historically, the local population has a relationship of hate-love with the Arno, which has alternatively brought the advantages of the commerce and the disasters of the floods. The Ponte Vecchio, characteristic for the crowd of important jewelries built on it. Realized for the first one turned by the Etruschi in very ancient times, this bridge is the only one of the city to be passed uninjured through the second world war. The most famous building in the city is Old Building, that has become a monument to the family de' Medici that it dominated the city during the XV century. Nearby it is the Gallery of the Offices, one of the more famous museums of art to the world. Besides the Offices, Florence counts other museums that they would be the principal artistic attraction of almost every other great city of the world: the Bargello assemble him on the sculpture, and it entertains many masterpieces of Donatello, Giambologna and Michelangelo. While on the left shore of the Arno, for the Florentine Oltrarno, the great Building is found Pitti, decorated with the private collection of the Physicians. Behind the Building the Garden of Boboli is found, elaborately decorated with a lot of interesting sculptures. The Corridor Vasariano, foresees a run above elevated that connects Old building with Building Pitti passing for the Gallery of the Offices and above the Old Bridge to the, his/her inside is present a vast collection of self-portraits and a part of portraits of six hundred and the seven hundred. The cathedral of Saint Maria of the Flower, known simply as "the Cathedral" it represents the gem of the Architecture in Florence among the most beautiful of Italy. The beautiful dome was projected from Phillip Brunelleschi, and the near bell tower from Giotto. The adjacent baptistery is also worthy of note, with the bronzy doors formed by tiles trilobate that rewarded the Ghiberti, in the 1401 contest that he/she also saw how participants Donatello and Brunelleschi. To also signal the church of Saint Maria Novella and Orsanmichele and the Museum of St. Mark. The church of Saint Cross contains the monumental graves of Galileo, Michelangelo and a cenotaph to Dante Alighieri and other famous people of the Florentine history.

Worthy of note and tourist attractions are the buildings in Florence, the Palazzo Vecchio it is found in Piazza della Signoria to Florence and it is the center of the commune of the city. To his/her inside the building entertains a museum that exposes among the other works of Agnolo Bronzino, Michelangelo Buonarroti and George Vasari. The Palagio of Part Guelfa has been being by now for many years the center of the Florentine historical Kick and the historical procession of the Florentine Republic. The Palagio entertains in the monumental rooms, conferences and artistic, cultural and scientific demonstrations of city, national and international importance. The Building Pitti is found in Pitti Plaza to the civic number 1 to Florence. The building is risen to south of the Arno, on the slopes of the hill on which the Garden of Boboli is found. The Palazzo Medici Riccardi placed in that that called for the ampleness By Wide, today street Cavour, to the number 3. Used for the more as center of the Suggestion Provincial and as residence of the Prefect, that has to firmly reside you. Other rooms of representation they are used in particular occasions, between them the room of the President of the Republic that acts as abode of the President on the occasion of visits in the city. The Building Rucellai it is found at the Street of the Vineyard New 18, the Building Rucellai is a typical example it saddles architecture fifteenth-century Florentine. The Building Strangles situated to around to halves the actual street Tornabuoni, to Florence, in direction of the river Arno, one are considered of the masterpieces of the Florentine civil architecture of the Renaissance. While the Building Ridolfi the number is found to 15 of street May and goes up again to the XV century. Austere and modest building, belonged to Cosimo Ridolfi patriot whose monument is the neighbor Saint Plaza Spirit. The escorts remember the visit of the Bianca's Cappello building placed at the street May to the number 26 characterized by the graffiti in façade and from the knelt windows of the Buontalenti. Bianca Cappello was the Venetian lover of Francesco I de' Medici, whose history was one of the you increase gossips of the epoch.

Considered the urbanistic structure very beautiful to visit it is the Ponte Vecchio one of the symbols of the city of Florence, cross the river in the most narrow point. The first construction goes up again to the Roman epoch. It is the only bridge in Florence that was not made to jump from the Germans during the 1944 retreat. The companions escorts remember to also visit the Bridge Saint Trinita, called in this way from the church of the Saint Trinità. It is one of the most beautiful bridges in Italy, and among the most elegant of Europe. The Bridge Alle Grazie third bridge realized in Florence in masonry, was entirely built already in 1237 in stone, with nine arcades, in the amplest point of the river. The Ponte alla Carraia built in wood in 1218 with the name of "new Bridge"; it was the second to be built after the Old Bridge. Destroyed by a flood, reconstructed in stone. Finally the Bridge of St. Niccolò entitled to St. Fernando, built between 1836 and 1837. It is the bridge on the Arno awryer from the center in Florence.

Among the numerous plazas of florence the companions escort advise to visit,
Plaza of the Dominion, central plaza in Florence, center of the civil power with Old Building and heart of the social life of the city. It is found in the central part in the medieval Florence, to south of the Cathedral and to few about ten meters from the Old Bridge and from the Arno.
Plaza of the Cathedral placed in the heart of the historical center in Florence. Dominated by the massive structure of the cathedral and of the buildings correlated comas the Bell tower of Giotto and the Baptistery of St. Giovanni.
Plaza of Bottle-holder so called by the massive structure of the church and it enters you from the Lungarno Soderini, from street Bottle-holder and from street of the Piaggiane, whose name remembers as once these places they almost degraded toward the river to form a sort of beach.
While the Square Michelangelo in Florence represents the most famous point of observation of the city panorama, reproduced in innumerable postcards and destination forced of the tourists in visit to the city.
The It places St. Lawrence it is famous for the vivacious market that holds you all days, dominated from the homonym basilica, with background her great dome of the Chapel of the Principles.
It places Saint Maria Novella, situated near from the homonym church it is one of the principal plazas in Florence.
Plaza of the Holy Announced is one of the most beautiful plazas and stylistically harmonious not only in the city, but of Italy, where they put hand some among the more great Renaissance architects in absolute.
The It places Saint Spirit to Florence frequent center of markets, is also rich of restaurants and nighttime places, that do yes that both one of the preferred plazas as point of meeting of the Florentines it is one of the most typical and vivacious plazas of the district of Oltrarno. The Basilica of Saint is you Spirit, one of the most beautiful Renaissance churches in Tuscany, last masterpiece of Phillip Brunelleschi.
It places Saint Trinita you/he/she is dominated from the homonym church and leans out you some important buildings; thanks to the foundation of the church and the convent of the Vallombrosanis and with the construction of the bridge Holy Trinita from 1252 an important crossroad becomes city.
The center of the Piazza Ognissanti plaza is dominated by the imposing one and powerful person statue of Romano Romanelli, Ercole and the Leo, altogether it is a beautiful plaza along the Arno on which the beautiful Church of Ognissanti is found, the hotel Excelsior and the Grand'Hotel.
Plaza of the will Pass, small plaza of the Oltrarno in Florence, note also as "Song to the Leos", sets to the intersection between Street of the Spur and Street of the Vellutinis and what it is characterized for entertaining, thanks also to the activism of the residents, different cultural demonstrations.
Ad uso pedonale Piazza della Repubblica è una piazza di Firenze di forma rettangolare grande circa 75 m per 100 m.
It places Saint Cross to Florence it results dominated from the homonym basilica and being very great and of form to regulate, in the Renaissance it became the ideal place for chivalrous merry-go-rounds, parties, shows and popular competitions, as the kick in custom, that is held today still you every June.
It places St. Felice in Plaza it is important for the history of the Oltrarno, when in the middle age, still out of the boundaries, the Suburb of Plaza existed, a street edged by popular buildings what departing from the church of Saint Felicita reached the door of St. Pier Gattolino, today Door Roman.
Plaza of the Carmine is dominated from the homonym church. It is found in the district of St. Frediano Oltrarno.
It places St. Florence to Florence with the name from the Complex of St. Phillip Neri, also says of St. Florence from a definition of the name of a preexisting building devoted to St. Fiorenzo.
The quadrangular plaza with the center planted with trees that it interrupts to half the rectilinear Street Cavour it is Plaza St. Mark, to the center edged of benches and as in the homonym Venetian plaza, crowded of pigeons.

Catholic culture, asked her Saint Maria of the Flower the Cathedral in Florence, fourth church of Europe for greatness, later St. Pietro in Vatican, Saint Paul in London and the Cathedral in Milan, long the 153 meters while the plinth of the dome is wide 90 meters. The Basilica of Saint Maria Novella is one of the most important church in Florence and rises on the homonym one plaza. If Saint Cross was and is an ancient center of Franciscan culture and Saint Spirit it entertained the order Agostiniano, Saint Maria Novella was for Florence the point of reference of the third begging order, the Dominicans. The Basilica of Saint Cross in Florence is one of the greatest churches officiated by the Franciscan ones. One of the maximum realizations of the Gothic one in Italy, it is note as The temple of the Itale glories for the numerous burials of tops artists, lettered scientists that it contains. The Basilica of St. Lawrence is one of the most greater churches in Florence, situated in the homonym plaza center of market in the center of the city. Companions escort also advise to admire the Basilica of the Holy Announced, Sanctuary Mariano in Florence, mother house of the order Served. The church, very dear to the Florentines, it is situated in the homonym plaza brunelleschiana in the part northeast of the I center city, next to the hospital of the Innocent ones. The church of St. Savior to the Mountain is an important basilica in Florence placed in the hill behind the Square Michelangelo, the Mountain of the Crosses, as soon as below the church of St. Miniated. The Basilica of St. Miniated to the Mountain it is found in one of the tallest places in the city of Florence, and it is one of the best examples of Romanesque in Tuscany and in Italy. The church of Saint Spirit in Florence is one of the principal basilicas of the city. It is situated in the district of the Oltrarno, the south part of the historical center, and with his/her simple façade it dominates the homonym plaza.

The companions escort florence recommended restaurants, LA ROTONDA, trattoria antico forno, Ristorante Gallo Nero, G I R A S O L, Ristorante La Casa di Caccia, RISTORANTE IL CAMINETTO, Il Piatto Stregato.

Among the present nighttime places to florence we remember the Night Club Exclusive Club Firenze Had opened every evening since 22.00 up to late night, il Showgirls Firenze where suppers and private and home shows are organized or in other places both for Goodbyes Á. the Bachelorhood that to the Spinsterhood, Sexy Disco Excelsior with the sexy maids that the atmosphere will make amusing and spicy in a room restaurant entirely devoted to you. While among the discos worthy of note is signalled the Maracanà Firenze, ExMud placed in the historical center, Kaffeine, Full Up , Tenax, Yab e Andromeda among the best and for the music of the residents D.J Fracesco and Pavel that it spaces in an international environment

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