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Located in the historic center of Florence, the Tourist House Liberty is about 300 meters from...
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Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. From 1865 to 1871 it was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
A centre of medieval European trade and finance, the city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and was long ruled by the Medici family. Florence is also famous for its fine art and architecture. It is said that, of the 1000 most important European artists of the second millennium, 350 lived or worked in Florence.
Florence's recorded history began with the establishment in 59 BC of a settlement ("Florentia") for Roman veterans. The seat of a bishopric from around the beginning of the 4th century A.D., the city experienced subsequent periods of Byzantine, Ostrogothic, Lombard, and Frankish rule, during which the population may have fallen to as few as 1,000 persons.
The surge in artistic, literary, and scientific investigation that occurred in Florence in the 14th-16th centuries was precipitated by Florentines' preoccupation with money and with the display of wealth and leisure.
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