Florence City of Art And Culture

Florence is one of the most visited city in Europe for the beauty of historical center of the city. The streets and squares of the city are crowded with tourists who daily take part to the tours of Florence. Florence Tours are offered by various travel agencies that offer tours in every language and for the different attractions in Florence.

Florence is in itself an open-air museum, a feature that has earned her the recognition of World Heritage by UNESCO. The historic center of Florence is a jewel of art and architecture, which has been developed over its history, inheriting from time to time the best of previous eras.

Visiting Florence you can find many testimonies of the glorious past of this city, walking inside the old city walls of Florence there are still architectural and artistic works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, thanks to the careful preservation with which these works of art have been preserved.

These buildings of absolute historical and artistic importance were built thanks to the economic power developing in this city for many centuries, since in the Middle Ages Florence was an important market town. Florence became in the Renaissance also a financial center in Europe with the creation the first banks, to which many rulers of that time requesteds funds for works and wars.

Florence differed from other important cities because it used economic resources in fields that produced a steady progress for humanity, not only in the field of art and culture but also in areas aimed at improvement of human life in every respect.

Celebrities such as Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei are only the best known names of a large group of enlightened men who lived in Florence: scientists, real inventors and forerunners of that period like our brightest scientists today.

Centuries of art, culture and progress in all areas have made Florence the cradle of the Renaissance and the center of modern humanism, a role that still today is universally recognized and has given this city a strong cosmopolitan character. Walking through the streets of Florence you can meet people from all over the world who want to see live what they have often read or heard about this place full of art and history and unique beauty.

Florence today as in the past is a place where the beauty of art is combined with the culture that has made a great contribution to the civilization of the whole of Europe, the rulers of the past as the present ones are often visiting this ctta with its beauty manages to charm all along.