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FLORENCE CITY - ITALY
Florence (Italian Firenze; ancient Florentia), city, central Italy, in Tuscany Region (Toscana),
capital of Florence Province, on the Arno River. Located at the foot of the Apennines Mountains,
Florence was originally the site of an Etruscan settlement. The city is world famous for Gothic
and Renaissance buildings, art galleries and museums, and parks.
Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore),
the Church of Santa Croce, the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, the work of great masters such as Giotto,
Brunelleschi, Botticelli and Michelangelo.
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