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Firenze
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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.
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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
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La Campanile di Badia
Piazza San Firenze
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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.
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Chiesa di Santa Margherita in Santa Maria de'
Ricci a Firenze Founded in 1508 The 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
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Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as
Dante (c. 12651321), 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.
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"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
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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.
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Marie Spartali Stillman, Beatrice, 1895
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.
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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.
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Florence centro storico is very interesting
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
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Via dei Calzaiuoli Chiesa di Orsanmichele
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Via degli Speziali
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Via degli Speziali
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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
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Piazza della Repubblica
Colonna dellAbbondanza
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Palazzo Signoria e Corridoio Vasariano
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Vasari Corridor
Ponte alle Grazie
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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 subse-quent additions, raised
parts and external terraces, extending towards
the river and altering the original architecture
in an anar-chical, suggestive way.
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Shops on the Ponte Vecchio
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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".
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Ponte alle Grazie
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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.
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Ponte alle Grazie
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Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi and Ponte alle
Grazie
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Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi
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Porta San Nicollo Piazza Poggi
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Ponte alle Grazie
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