Florence, a city of the Renaissance.

During the Middle Ages, Florence, city located in the banks of the river Arno, to the foot of the Apennines, arose like one of the but powerful city-states of Italy, thanks to the wealth that obtained in the sale of fabrics and wools, but above all: of the banking services international its aristocracy, formed by rich merchants that supported the social progress, paved the streets and built schools, hospitals and a



In these exciting and turbulent times, many talented men they existed, among them the architect and painter Giotto, and two of the most important writers of the world: Dante Alighieri and Bocaccio.

The city suffered a period of financial decline in the middle of the century XVI, but recovered under the government of the powerful princes merchants of the family Médici Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo the I Exaggerate, that governed Florence upon dominating the Senate or Signoria.Direct or indirectly, the Médici were the sponsors of a notable generation of artists, writers and butchers that have come be the prototype of the “man“ Multiple talents deeply interested in all the aspects of the humanity and of the knowledge humando.



Under the last Médici, the Florentine arts decayed and already in the 17th century they were stopped completely.nevertheless, its influence had extended but there of Florence and the stagnation permitted the conservation of many treasures of the Renaissance, that remained intact for benefit of the flourishing tourism, that I am started in the 17th century.