Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond.[8] Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions.

From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.

The city is an exquisite treasure chest of paintings, sculptures and terracotta-domed buildings, a tribute to artists like da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo from a glorious golden age three centuries long. It was created by Arnolfo di Cambio, and subsequently it was crowned with Brunelleschi's famous dome.

You can find a hundred art pieces around all the town