Florence the city' of art

Florence is of origin etrusca, and up to the year thousand have been an agricultural suburb. Beginning from the centuries XI-XII the things cabiarono the separated city among wars between Guelfi and Ghibellini, substantially, succeeded in becoming wealthy of monuments setting the bases of its supremacy in Tuscany. To Florence illustrious characters as Boccaccio was born, Giving and Machiavelli. Florence has been enriched besides by the works of Donatello, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Brunelleschi and Giotto that they did one of it of the artistic capitals of the world. In the century XII Firenze been said a town order and naquerò the first guilds of the arts; in the '200 the florin was among the most solid coins in Europe. The following century was dominated by the great giving Aighieri, that with its Divine Comedy, he/she conferred to the Florentine vernacular the dignity that would have conducted him/it to become the Italian language, it is also the century of Giotto, craftsman of a renewal in the painting. This century you/they were built the great public buildings, the Cathedral and Old Building. The '300 were to the insignia of the Gothic one, proveniante from the school of Giotto and the Boccaccio with his/her Decamerone; it was also a difficult and hard period marked by the 1348 plague and by numerous financial crashes. In the '400 Florence has another change, the entrance of the family of the Physicians in 1434 with Cosimo the Old one. With the family of the Physicians we have the rifiorire of the literature, of the painting with Botticelli, with the Ghirlandaio and others; the architecture also blooms with Brunelleschi and with the Michelozzo, while the sculpture blooms with Donatello, the Verrocchio and of the Robbia, for last but not utilo the great Leonardo from you Win with its innumerable works. The '500 the family succeeded in settling in way more consolidated and stable thanks to Cosimo I. The Physicians and the Lorenas that happened them to the guide of the State in 1737, continued the work of encouragement of the arts and the construction of villas, gardens and buildings. In the 800 the struggles risorgimentali, then the brief parenthesis in capital Florence of the Kingdom of Italy among 1865 and 1871. The city continued to be a vivacious artistic and cultural center.Florence, together with Rome and Venice, I am the history of the Italian civilization. To Florence, in the XV° century, they were mails the bases to make rifiorire art and culture. Here, thanks to writers as Giving, Petrarca and Machiavelli, the culture and the Italian language it was born. The Lily in Florence was select as symbol in the second halves the XII° century. On the hills and in shore to the Arno they were and I am still it present moltissi lilies, and it is for this motive that the lily as coat of arms in Florence were select in origin the gonfalone it had the white lily with red background, you/he/she was changed in red on white background from the Guelfis in 1266 as sign of victory on the Ghibellinis. The legend wants that the lily is born from a drop of milk fallen by the breast of Giunone while he/she was nursing the small Ercole. The meaning of the Lily is, that of the chastity and of the purity.

A wood porticina behind the façade of the Cathedral. And a staircase to snail narrow... For this street we salt among the mysteries of the cathedral. Before it covers, appropriates him/it that it contains the gears of the clock of Paul Uccello.

List of the nighttime places to Florence and in the outskirts, discos, pub, disk cafe, where you can dance all the son-in-laws of music: huse, American Latin, or if you want to pass a different evening you can visit the Night Club, Sexy Disk, etc.

You discover where the great artists of the history have lived, Florence is the capital of the culture. You discover where the great ones have sojourned some past, the Manzoni, Giving, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo from you Win, only to quote some of it.

Video turned by tourists, that take back the city of Florence. Video View from the top of the Cathedral - Video from the Dome of the Cathedral in Florence. Walking in Florence - Walking for Florence. The monuments in Florence - The monuments in Florence.

Webcam on Florence Live and adjourned in real time.

Florence is a city with many green spaces: those public are evident, while those privacies, are made unfortunately invisible by the tall boundaries of the buildings of the center.
The most famous parks as the Garden of Boboli, the Garden Bardini, the Garden of Villa The Fan, museums are compared to.

Florence is surrounded from many communes and suburbs of valuable artistic and architectural relief, medieval suburbs and modern and technological towns can be seen, but the tastes of the kitchen Tuscany you/they can be tasted and to drink some good wine Chianti. In the autumn period it is possible to visit the crushers where the new oil is tasted just squeezed, in many crushers the spremitura is used to cold that leaves the taste and the substances of the oil intact.

Florence has been the inventor of Pitti Pitti Uomo and other inherent demonstrations the tall fashion today. Pitti Uomo opens in the spirit of the elegance and attributes a new awareness of the fashion to today's man, of the pleasure to dress and above all to know him to dress. We find the tall tailoring with the noblest names of Savile Row, up to the elegance avantgarde of Kris Van Assche, passing for Touch, the novelty of this edition, to the new names to the debut of New Beat (s) and to the limited edition of Pitti Image Rooms."