The
largest and city of the
Tuskany usually-visited with security lies in the basin of the Arno,
surround by hills, which rise in the north rapidly to the Apennin. The
offer at objects of interest and art treasures is much too extensively,
over also only on to be able to seize approaching everything. But most
visitors want also only win one impression and saw the most important
buildings. Unfortunately the
city has meanwhile trouble to bear the constant and strong Tourismus
run on and does not even come around in the winter around a certain
row. A small roundtrip the landmarks of the city should include:
first the wonderful Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore
with its
multicolored marble lining and the stately dome Brunelleschis. In
addition belongs the older Baptisterium San Giovanni
(11.-12nd
Jh.) in the protoroman style and the Campanile
(very good
prospect). Just as famous is the Piazza della Signoriaalsothe
Palazzo
Vecchio, me long lot David and the well of Neptun,
and a
little further the medievalArnrobridge Ponte Vecchio,
on that
itself the old goldstores line up closely together. The Palazzo
del
Bargello is the oldest received local palace, the loggia dei
Lanzi
a building of representations of the citygovernment. The palaces that
rich fiorentiner families Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Rucellai point
towardit that typical architectural style of the fiorentiner
Renaissance up. The Palazzo Pitti to southernbank
of the Arno
by the Medici one bought, which put on beside it the Giardini
di
Boboli. Regarding Churches point themselves the first
characteristics of the Renaissance with San Lorenzo,
to
that Frontsof Santa Maria Novella and San
MiniatoFranziskaner
church Santa Croce savesnumerous art
treasures in its
inside, and except-accustoms completely building of churches is
Orsanmichele,a converted grain store. Of the PiazzaleMichelangelo
out is offered a beautiful view from above on thecity. One should visit
oneself also the old market hall built in art
nouveau, because
there can youeverything buy which to the palate benefit belonged.
aluminium Monte. The www.firenze.net/
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trips into the
privince:
Fiesole is
alone already well-known as
lookout point, because as from here one sees Florence only from few
Points. Is
the hill small town etrusk.
Origin and thus older
than the Roman Florenz. Remainders etrusk.
Walls,
roem. Amphiteater,
remainders of hot springs,
Roman cathedral S.
Romolo, Palazzo Petroio, Church
Sant'Alessandro,Palazzo Vescovile
and the monastery San
Francesco.
Completely in the proximity the interesting Church Badia Fiesolana and the
mansion
Medici from the early
Renaissance. Also in the
proximity of Borgo San
Lorenzo,
the principal place of the Mugello,
which was again developed
after an earthquake 1919 (Pieve
San Lorenzo), are the
castle-similar mansion Cafaggiolo,
a summer seat of the Medici,
and that Castello
del Trebbiowith gardens from that 15. Jh. Scaperia:
Palazzo dei Vicari.
Surrounded by close stone oaks
of forests the
monastery Vallombrosa lies (at the 11. century).
The small old part of
town of Certaldo,
determined by buildings
of bricks , lies on a hill over the Elsa valley. In
the church SS. Michele e Jacopo
is kept the body of the poet
Boccaccio,
in that Casa Boccaccio its
old age to have
spent is. At the city hall Palazzo Pretorio
remind numerous Coat of
arms to the fiorentiner city owners.
Empoli
lives today mainly on the industry
(glass), has however also a cathedral worth seeing, those Collegiata di S. Andrea
to the Piazza
Farinata degli Uberti and
some interesting museums. Not
far northern Vinci
,the place of residence
Leonardo's (museum)
lies, however in the
nearby Anchiano was born (birth
house). Castelfiorentino
exhibits
a Cappella della
Visitazione (Fresken); Barberino
Val d'Elsa still city bricks
from that 13.
Jh. and a Palzzo Pretorio. In the
proximity the castle ruin
Semifontes. Impruneta, at the
edge fiorentiner chianti, is admits for its red clay/tone and its
Terracottavasen. Worth
seeing the church S. Maria dell'Impruneta with a
two-story
cloister.
Also worth seeing Greve
in chianti with
the pretty arcade market
place.
Close Panzano in
chianti those Roman
Pieve S. Leonino with cloister.
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