A city-size shrine to the Renaissance, Florence offers frescoes, sculptures, churches, palaces, and other monuments from the richest cultural flowering
the planet has known. Names from its dazzling historical past—Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli. A city-size shrine to the Renaissance, Florence offers frescoes, sculptures, churches, palaces, and other monuments from the richest cultural flowering
the planet has known. Names from its dazzling historical past—Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli—are
a number of the foremost resonant of the medieval age. But
to ascertain the Tuscan capital simply as Europe’s preeminent city of art would be to ignore not only its role as a dynamic and cosmopolitan metropolis, but also to overlook its more unsung charms—
Italy’s most visited gardens (and its best ice-cream parlor), idyllic strolls on balmy summer evenings, a broad range of specialty shopping, sweeping views over majestic cityscapes, eating experiences that range from historic cafés to the country’s most highly rated restaurants,
and therefore the quite seductive and romantic pleasures that somehow only
Italy knows
the way to provide. “Arte al Sole
camp
Walk to San Miniato al Monte above Florence
Visit the Palazzo Strozzi museum
Walk along the
Arno and watch the rowers
Eat at La Cucina del Garga
Climb Giotto’s Campanile
Visit Santa Maria Novella
Visit the Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella
Experience beauty at the Palatine Gallery
