florence

     

Florence (or Firenze, Florentia an Fiorenza) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, and of the province of Florence. It is the most populated city in Tuscany with 364,779 people.

Trivia about florence

  • Around 59 B.C. the Romans settled what is now this city, & gave it a Latin name that means "blossoming"
  • Florence Nightingale was born in this Italian city in 1820
  • The last Medici gave this city the family's art collection "to attract the curiosity of foreigners"
  • The locals call it Firenze
  • The starting point and center of early Renaissance art was in this Italian city
  • Standard Italian came from the dialect used in this city by Dante, Petrarch & Boccaccio
  • From 1865 to 1870 this "flowery" city served as the capital of Italy
  • The piazza where the young lovers meet in "The Light in the Piazza" is in this romantic city on the Arno
  • Bistecca alla Fiorentina, a grilled steak dish, is a specialty of this Italian city
  • Perhaps the best view of this city is from the Piazzale Michelangelo on the far side of the Arno River
  • The New York Times website's "Where To Stay" feature suggests the Pensione Maria Luisa De' Medici in this Tuscan city
  • The gold coin known as the florin was originally produced in this city in 1252
  • In 1421 Filippo Brunelleschi designed the first Renaissance building, the Foundling Hospital in this city
  • Residents of this Italain city refer to it as Firenze
  • Benozzo Gozzoli's fame rests on a set of frescoes in the Medici Palace in this city
  • Donatello was born in this city, where he assisted Ghiberti in finishing the bronze doors of the baptistery
  • In summer 1847 the newly-married Brownings settled in the Casa Guidi near the Pitti Palace in this city
  • In this city you can purchase a ticket allowing visits to 7 museums, including the Palazzo Vecchio
  • Construction of the world-famous Palazzo Vecchio began in 1299 in this Italian city
  • Benedetto Dei, a merchant of this city, bragged in a letter that it "is more beautiful and 540 years older" than Venice
  • The Pazzi Chapel in this city was one of the 1st buildings designed in the Renaissance style
  • In "Innocents Abroad" Twain derides this city's mistreatment of Galileo & its love of the Medicis
  • Giotto's teacher, Cimabue, painted the "Madonna in Majesty", seen here, in this city:
  • The Italian city of this name has Il Duomo; the one in South Carolina has the Pee Dee Experiment Station
  • Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace
  • The tombs of Michelangelo & Machiavelli are in the Church of Santa Croce in this Italian city
  • + the Machine
  • Uffizi Gallery,Bardini Museum
  • Until the 17th century, this first name of nurse Nightingale was used for both men & women
  • Along with its most famous inhabitant, a room of a museum in this Italian city is seen here
  • Michelangelo's statue of Bacchus is among the art treasures in the Bargello in this Italian city
  • When Dante died in 1321, he was in his 20th year of exile from this Italian city
  • In 1252 this city, in a show of its independence, began to issue gold florins
  • Buca dell'Orafo is in the cellar of what was once a goldsmith's shop near the Ponte Vecchio in this city
  • Check out Michelangelo's "Holy Family" at the Uffizi in this Tuscan city, the "Athens of the West"
  • Il Duomo of this city's cathedrals was based on the principles of Roman vaults
  • Check out the Campanile & the Galleria Degli Uffizi in this Tuscan town
  • In the 1430s Donatello sculpted dancing cherubs for the Singing Gallery of the Duomo in this city
  • Savonarola & Machiavelli are characters in George Eliot's "Romola", set in the 1490s in this city
  • Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, this city's Pazzi Chapel was one of the first buildings in the Renaissance style
  • Brunelleschi's Duomo of the 1420s & '30s
  • Ghiberti put his own likeness in his 15th C. bronze doors for this city's baptistery
  • While in this city, stop by its beautiful Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace for a picnic lunch
  • This city was the birthplace of the Renaissance & of Renaissance painter Botticelli
  • You'll find the statue ("David") seen here in this Italian city
  • In 1215 a bloody incident on this city's Ponte Vecchio began a civil war between the Guelphs & Ghibellines
  • The Piazza del Duomo is the center of religious life in this city, the birthplace of the Renaissance
  • What a pity if you leave this city without visiting the Pitti Palace
  • In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar established a colony on the Arno River which later became this Italian city
  • In a 1908 novel, "A Room With a View" is obtained at the Pensione Bertolini in this Italian city
  • Played by Marla Gibbs, she was the Jeffersons' wisecracking maid
  • Appropriately, the 19th century's "Lady with the Lamp" was born in this Italian city
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti is best-known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city
  • Internal struggles in Pisa led to the city's defeat & occupation by this neighboring city in 1406
  • Mrs. Harding was nicknamed "Flossie", but this was her real first name
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti is best known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city