Place:Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italy

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NameFlorence
Alt namesFiorenzasource: Companion Guide: Florence (1979) p 14
Firenzesource: Wikipedia
Florenciasource: Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) p 317; Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-56
Florentiasource: GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) p 8354; Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) p 331; Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 343
Florenzsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeTown
Coordinates43.783°N 11.25°E
Located inFirenze, Toscana, Italy
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Florence is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.

Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.

The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments.[1] The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as the most beautiful city in the world of 2010.

Florence plays an important role in Italian fashion,[2] and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre,[2] as well as a tourist and industrial hub. With an HDI of 970, Florence is, after Milan, the second most developed city in Italy and one of the most developed in Europe.

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