Florence is located in the slope of the Apenino, in a plain crossed by the Arno and surrounded by green typical hills in Toscana. It is the city that thus gave to Italy its own language, helping it to become nation and that gave to Europe unique the great period of cultural development, artistic and scientific that was the Renaissance.
Florence has an enormous amount of escultóreas, pictorial and architectónicas works of great importance and unicity that accompany to the tourist in their strolls by the crossed city dal to flow of the Arno, sometimes Pacific and other times threatening. The streets, that remember the poetry of Dante and the atmosphere of the Renaissance, welcome every year in almost two million procedientes tourists worldwide.
To describe Florence from the artistic point of view suppose a great given company the wealth that the city represents world-wide level, but we will try, almenos in broad strokes, to draw a general picture of the wonders that the city conserves.
The central historical area is constituted by the Seat of the Duomo with the church of Santa Maria of the Fiore with the famous cupola of Brunelleschi and the Bell tower of Giotto with its 85 meters of height.
In the seat one also is the Battistero with his famous bronze doors and the Museum dell' Opera of the Duomo where are pieces of the external one of the Duomo which they have been sostituidas.
Later we found Plaza della Signoria with Vecchio Palace that in origin was the municipality, the statue of the David de Miguel Angel (the original one is conserved in the Museum of the Academy) and the gallery of the Uffizi with its great number of art works.
To the East of the city the church of Santa Maria Novella with the facade made by Leon Battista Alberti rises to the gothic basilica of Santa Croce and to the West. Crossing the Arno it is arrived at the church of Santo Spirito, Pitti Palace and the old seat of the Medicis.
Also they are important the church of Santa Maria of the Carmine with the fresh airs of the Chapel Brancacci, the Spedale degli Innocenti de Brunelleschi, Strozzi Palace and Ruccellai Palace with its architectura of great value.
In addition to already mentioned museums of Uffizi and dell'Opera of the Duomo, also it is worth the trouble to visit the museum of the Bargello and the collection of Pitti Palace