Historic Center of Florence
‘Built on the site of an Etruscan
settlement, Florence, the symbol of the
Renaissance, rose to economic and
cultural pre-eminence under the Medici
in the 15th and 16th centuries. 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.’