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Florence is the capital of picturesque and very popular Italian province Tuscany, which is located at the bank of the Arno River. This city gave the birth to the Renaissance, as the cultural event and to such epoch-making people as Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Florence is full of monuments of art, culture and history. Most of the Florence palaces, churches, museums and historical buildings were built in the Renaissance style. This wonderful Italian city for centuries, actually, was under the rule of the Medici. Thanks to them many of the Florence art objects were created. This family was very much interested in fine arts, architecture, sculpture and literature. At those times Florence had the status of the most powerful city-country.

Nowadays Florence has the population of 356 000 people. Florence is a unique city, in some way it can be called an open-air museum. But if you carve for nightlife, it's not the very place you need. Florence is the city for admiring the atmosphere of the past and the absolutely special culture.
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