Florence

Florence is an important city of art is at the center of the Italian peninsula, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Adriatic, and is crossed by the river Arno. It 'a vibrant city full of industrial and handicraft, theater trade and cultural exchanges, to art and science. Florence keeps an exceptional artistic heritage, marvelous evidence of its aged culture. Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, founders of the Renaissance; Botticelli and Uccello, the universal genius of Leonardo and Michelangelo and many other artists more or less known. Their works, with those of many other generations of artists up to the masters of the present century, are gathered in the historic center and the city's many museums: the Uffizi, the painting gallery in the world; the Palatine Gallery, with the paintings of the "golden age"; the Bargello, with the sculptures of the Renaissance; the San Marco Museum, with works by Angelico; the Academy, the Medici appelle the Casa Buonarroti, with the sculptures of Michelangelo; Museums Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Cathedral Museum, the Silver, delle Pietre Dure.

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