Florence: The Capital of the Art

Few cities in the world can boast to be true artistic jewels, the Italian city of Florence gathers the sufficient merits to do it. According to statistics, the 60% of the most important works of every time they are found in Italy, (to see hotels in Italy) and great number of them in Florence, for that reason him be called the World Capital of the Art. The history of this city located in the region of Tuscany goes back to the year 159 to.C., when the emperor July Caesar established a settlement for veteran soldiers.



With the years, Florence -of the latin Florentia that signifies flowering- became an important city commercial thanks to its location between Rome and the north of the empire. After passing for the hands of the Kingdom Ostrogodo of Italy and the Sacred Germanic Roman Empire, Florence -or Firenze as is called him in Italian- reborned of the hand of the family Medeci, in part due to that the Medici were the bankers of the Pope. Lorenzo of Medici was a great propellant of the art and took charge of being the sponsor of many talented artists of the epoch, Miguel Angel was one of them. The Renaissance there was born. It is during this period when the plazas they are built, monuments, churches, palaces, statues and other elements that convert this city in a living museum.






The city of Florence -that in 1865 was the capital of Italy for 6 years later to delegate him the privilege to the city of Rome- is the destiny dreamed for the lovers of the art and of the history, discovering that in each one of its streets hides the beauty that knew to express its personages more illustrate as Miguel Angel, Leonardo Gives Vinci, Boticelli, Brunelleschi or Gioto. The activities of the city always rotate in around its history and culture, for which is impossible to leave the city without before to have learned lessons of art and history. Its historic center was declared in 1982 world heritage by the UNESCO.



The monuments and places to visit are many, and among them they emphasize The Cathedral -or Duomo- of Holy María of Fiore, designed by Brunelleschi, one of the largest architects of the Renaissance, the Piazza della Signoria, the main square of the city and where they are found the Mannerist Source of Neptune, designed by Ammannati, Cosimo “The Old” one to horse, the Hercules and Caco, and a reproduction of the David of Miguel. As well as also, the Gallery of the Uffizi, that keeps the treasure of the Medeci in the referring thing to paintings as for example, “The Spring” and “The Birth of Venus” of Sandro Boticelli, “The Sacred Family” of Miguel Angel, “Virgin of the goldfinch” of Rafael, among others Renaissance painters. It fits to stand out that is the first and more important museum of every Italy. The most beautiful sculptures the guard “The Bargello“, and counts on the “David” of Donatello, the “Baco” of Miguel Angel, the “Mercury” of Giambologna. The original statue of the “David ” -not to confuse with the “David” of Donatello that is a bronze done statue- is found in the Gallery of The Academy.