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When You book a guided tour in Florence Tours in Florence - Tuscany, with us You'll realize how beautiful and magic this town is.
There are many literary ideas throughout the city districts:from the tower-houses, where the tombstones recall the verses that these places inspired to Dante Alighieri, the serenity of the Medici villas, where they often met the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo the Magnificent up to the theaters to the Pergola and the Boboli Gardens, where they were staged for the first time melodramas that led to opera.
Florence as the cradle of the Renaissance "has its masterpieces in the works of Filippo Brunelleschi (the Spedale degli Innocenti, the church of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito) and Leon Battista Alberti (the facade of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai) but also other artistic periods have left their masterpieces: from the Romanesque San Miniato al Monte, the Gothic Santa Croce (where are the graves of Italic glories, as defined Ugo Foscolo, he also buried there), the vagaries of Giambologna's Mannerist or Bernardo Buontalenti (such as Fountain Neptune and the Boboli Gardens), to the masterpieces of the great Italian architects of the twentieth century as the station of Santa Maria Novella and the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
The center of Florence, with its hundreds of businesses is a paradise for shopping and entertainment, from stylish boutiques, cafes and historic concert by the lively outdoor market historians, as well as to host many clubs, discos , cocktail bar, lounge and bar and meeting place for cocktails (the famous Negroni cocktail was born here).
On the hills and countryside around Florence arise some of the historic homes of the Medici, some of which are regularly open to the public while others are privately owned.
Book one of our guided Tour in Florence, and You'll enjoy the unique atmosphere of this beautiful twon
