and his most popular attractions
Florence has an exceptional artistic heritage, glorious testimony to its secular civilization.
Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting, lived here, as Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, reformers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, founders of the Renaissance; Ghiberti and Della Robbia; Filippo Lippi and the Angelic; Botticelli and Paolo Uccello; The universal genres Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Their works, as well as those of generations of artists up to the masters of this century, are contained in the museums of the city. In Florence, thanks to Dante, he laughed the Italian language; Literary studies were confirmed with Petrara and Boccaccio
Florence's pulsating heart is Piazza del Duomo, with the monumental complex of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore where you can admire a precious collection of works from the Cathedral, the Baptistery and the Campanile. Piazza della Signoria is the historical center of civil life and houses the 14th-century Loggia dei Lanzi, the Fountain of Neptune and the Palazzo della Signoria or Palazzo Vecchio, one of the monuments-symbol of the city, in front of which are some famous statues including a copy Of the famous David of Michelangelo.