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Visitors Guide to Florence, Italy
The city of Florence is actually the capital of Italy's Tuscany area and stands alongside the scenic banks of the Arno River, close to the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas. Bustling with local industry, which includes arts and crafts, commerce and tourism; Florence is a particularly historic location, steeped in heritage.
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Travel To Florence: An Ever-Blooming Retreat
In the first century BCE, the Romans appropriately renamed this former Etruscan town Florentia, or destined to flower. With this blessing, Florence (Firenze) remained faithful to its namesake to become the unrivaled authority of Renaissance art, literature and culture. The romantic narrow passages of the city's core hold timeless treasures that gracefully dissolve the rest of the world's troubled existence. Travel to Florence for a truly authentic Renaissance experience.S...
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Florence: An Ever-Blooming Retreat
In the first century BCE, the Romans appropriately renamed this former Etruscan town Florentia, or destined to flower. With this blessing, Florence (Firenze) remained faithful to its namesake to become the unrivaled authority of Renaissance art, literature and culture.
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Holiday in style, in Florence and Tuscany
The one thing everyone looks forward to is their annual holiday. Normally, they plan a trip to the country side.
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The Luxury Bloom in Florence
In this article you will learn more about Salvatore Ferragamo who was a visionary whose works of art helped established one of the most enduring and successful luxury brands. The City of Florence where he established his company was home to some art legends as well.
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Florentine Legends: “The Reversed Balcony”
Florence is a city full of history where it’s easy to be charmed by surrounds and you do not notice some little corners, minor ones that make you rediscover the city and the character of Florentine people.One of these is little corners in Florence, perhaps surrounded by a legend, is in Borgo Ognissanti at number 12, where is located the reversed balcony. Admiring it is a real pleasure especially if you think about the legend that surrounds it, not because it was object of...
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Florence's Fortezza Da Basso
Fortezza da Basso, called also Fortezza of Saint John the Baptist (the patron saint of Florence), was commissioned by the Medici family and built in 1533 in the northern area of the historical city centre of Florence.The architecture and design of the FortezzaThe complex of the “Fortezza” was built like those of a mediaeval city thanks to the idea of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, one of the greatest architects in Florence, with the help of Pierfranceco da Viterbo: ...
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of the nursing field. She was first publicly noticed as an administrator during the Crimean War. Her unwavering determination to provide the best, sanitary care possible cut the death rate considerably for her side. She continued to contribute to the field of nursing throughout her life and continued to open doors for nurses and women in general.In 1893, Mrs. Lystra E. Gretter and the Farrand Training School for Nurses wrote an adaptatio...
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Discover your passion
The bottom line is; passion is motivating. Passion energises and transforms you.
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Tuscany Florences Popular Dance Festival in July
Two major events colour the spring month of May in Florence and they are the traditional Fair Artisan and Palace, and the Fabbrica Europa Festival.
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The Perfect Getaway: Bed And Breakfast Accommodation In Florence
The city of the Medici, Machiavelli, and the Pazzi, Florence is also the metropolis that gave birth to Italian Renaissance. It is a city with history and culture as old as its ruins. Florence saw the rise and fall of the Medici power, the burning at the stake of the prophet Girolamo Savonarola, and the magnificent orations of Niccolo Machiavelli. Florence is also a city of architectural wonders, spawning such marvels as the Ponte Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, the Uffizi mus...
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The discovery of a well in the Tower of the Pulci in Florence.
Every tourist who comes to Florence ends up by visiting the square outside the Uffizi Gallery. This is partly due to the attraction of the wonderful paintings in the Gallery and partly to admire the original architecture of the palace itself, which Giorgio Vasari, commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici, completed in just five years (1560-65).
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May 2008 in Florence cultural events and accommodation tips
In Florence from May 16 to 18 will be held the traditional Fair Artisan and Palace, organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Italy.
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Holiday in Tuscany and have the time of your life
Been hearing your neighbors brag about their trip to Italy and Tuscany and are dying of envy? Why not plan a trip and take off to explore the mountains to see what they were raving about? The place is as picturesque as it sounds, and the people there are extremely friendly, which makes the trip worth the effort.
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Florence typical trattorias and outside trips
Sure you will be enthusiastic of all Florence and Italian art but also tired and hungry after such an intense day, you can check this places to get a very tasty and typical food!
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A day in Florence between food and art
Stay in Florence means eat good food and experience some of the best museums of the world all in 2 km squared. Isn’t it?
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American cemetery in Florence
In Italy there are only two american cemeteries. One of these was built in Florence, to commemorate the thousands of lives who died in Tuscany during Warld War II.
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