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FIRENZE - TOSCANA

Piazza della Signoria Loggia dei Lanzi

Probably founded by Etruscans near the river Arno, but it was under Roman sway, around the middle of the 1st century B.C. Florentia, the florid, was the name given by the Romans to this small settlement .
Florence is the birthplace for Renaissance
From there it spread to other Italian regions and was influential in architectural development in other western European countries. In the 1400s Firenze was the Bank of Europe. It was the city run by bankers, merchants and shop owners who invested in arts, sponsoring many of great artists of the time. The Church was also a great patron of the art.

Many celebrated artists multi-talented was born in Firenze Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, Donatello, Masaccio.

The Neptune Fontain

by Bartolomeo Ammannati.
He also worked as well on
numerous huge houses in Firenze.

Italy, Firenze - ADESSO PHOTO 2003

Ponte Vecchio is the oldest bridge in Firenze and in fact it exists since the time of Roman colony when the
piers was by stone and the roadway by wood. Destroyed by flooding in 1117 it was completely rebuild in stone. After the terrible flood in Novembre 1333, it was rebuilt for the last time with three very wide spans, planned with room for shops on other side. In 1591 Ferdinando I allow the shops only to the goldsmiths.
You can find here the bust of Benvenuto Cellini "master of goldsmith" by Raffaelo Romanelli (1900) - More

PIAZZA DEL DUOMO

GIOTTO´S BELL TOWER - building began in 1334 under the direction of Giotto.

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore - (the third largest cathedral in the world after St. Peter's
in Rome and St. Paul's in London), The Cathedral or Duomo of Florence as we see
it today is the end result of years of work that covered over six centuries of history. Designed by Arnolfo di Cambio. (1296) . The Cathedral, financed by the Florentine State, was the most magnificent expression of Medieval faith, power of civic pride in Italy. After the death of Arnolfo 1302, work was interrupted and resumed in 1334 by Giotto who designed the Bell Tower.

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