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Duomo - Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore
The metropolitan cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, commonly known as the cathedral of Florence, is the main Florentine church, symbol of the city and one of the most famous in Italy; when it was completed, in the fifteenth century, it was the largest church in the world, while today it is considered the third largest in Europe after St. Peter's in Rome and the Milan Cathedral. It stands on the foundations of the ancient cathedral of Florence, the church of Santa Reparata, in a point of the city that has hosted religious buildings since Roman times.
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Santa Maria Novella
The basilica of Santa Maria Novella is one of the most important churches in Florence and stands on the homonymous square. If Santa Croce was and is a very ancient center of Franciscan culture and Santo Spirito was home to the Augustinian order, Santa Maria Novella was the point of reference for Florence for another important mendicant order, the Dominicans.
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Campanile di Giotto
Giotto's bell tower is the bell tower of Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral of Florence, and is located in Piazza del Duomo.
The unusual position of the bell tower, aligned with the facade, reflects the desire to give it great importance as a sign of strong verticality in the center of the Insula Episcopalis, in addition probably to the practical need to free the view of the apse area for the large dome, foreseen since Arnolfo project. Giotto provided an original project for the bell tower, with a pyramidal cusp termination 50 Florentine arms (about 40 meters) high, according to which the total elevation should have been about 120-125 meters.
The height of the bell tower which can be visited by the public is still 89 meters and the number of steps to climb to the top is 398 originals to which 15 must be added which are part of the first access ramp.
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Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria is the square of Florence, the seat of civil power and the heart of the social life of the city. It is located in the central part of medieval Florence, south of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. In the past it has taken on various names, such as Piazza dei Priori or Piazza del Granduca.
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Gallerie Degli Uffizi
The Uffizi Gallery is a state museum in Florence, which is part of the museum complex called the Uffizi Galleries and which includes, in addition to the aforementioned gallery, the Vasari Corridor, the collections of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, which together make up quality of the works collected one of the most important museums in the world.
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Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio is a bridge that crosses the Arno River in Florence, about 150 meters downstream of the area where the river naturally presents one of the narrowest points within the city in its upstream stretch of the farmhouses.
In addition to its historical value, over time the bridge has played a central role in the city road system, starting from when it connected the Roman Florentia with the Via Cassia Nuova commissioned by the emperor Hadrian in 123 AD.
In contemporary times, the bridge is crossed by a considerable pedestrian flow generated both by the notoriety of the place itself and by the fact that it connects places of great tourist interest on the two banks of the river: Piazza del Duomo, Piazza della Signoria on one side with the area of Palazzo Pitti and of Santo Spirito in the Oltrarno.
The bridge appears in the list drawn up in 1901 by the Directorate General of Antiquities and Fine Arts, as a monumental building to be considered a national artistic heritage.
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Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Pitti is an imposing Renaissance palace in Florence. It is located in the Oltrarno area, a short distance from Ponte Vecchio.
The original nucleus of the building dates back to 1458, as the urban residence of the banker Luca Pitti. The palace was then purchased by the Medici family in 1549 and became the main residence of the grand dukes of Tuscany, first the Medici and from 1737 Habsburg-Lorraine. Following the unification of Italy, it played the role of royal palace for the House of Savoy in the five years in which Florence was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (1865-70). In 1919 Vittorio Emanuele III donated it to the State: since then it has been a state museum.
