Skyline view over Florence in Italy
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Florence

When in Florence, it’s easy to feel that the city has a monopoly on beauty. Not only has its astonishing wealth of art and architecture earned it worldwide fame as ‘the cradle of the Renaissance,’ but its location in the heart of Tuscany means it’s surrounded by gorgeous rural vistas too.

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Florence

When in Florence, it’s easy to feel that the city has a monopoly on beauty. Not only has its astonishing wealth of art and architecture earned it worldwide fame as ‘the cradle of the Renaissance,’ but its location in the heart of Tuscany means it’s surrounded by gorgeous rural vistas too.

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Ponte Vecchio

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Ponte Vecchio

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Every visitor goes to the Ponte Vecchio, the medieval bridge with its unique atmosphere and enchanting river views; far fewer make it into the hills of Fiesole, where European aristocrats came in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to admire the views of Florence from above.


The grand cathedral dome, an extraordinary fifteenth-century achievement that relied on dramatic engineering breakthroughs, lifts Florence’s beauty up towards the sky.

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