Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of about 366,500. The city is a cultural, artistic, and architectural gem inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Florence was the home to powerful families, creative geniuses, and scientific masterminds who left their legacies in the city’s many museums and art galleries. The city also has a vibrant literary history, being the birthplace of the famous poet Dante, and standard Italian today is primarily based on the dialect of Tuscan spoken in Florence.
Understand of Florence Politically, economically, and culturally, Florence was the most important city in Europe for around 250 years, from 1300 until the early 1500s.
Florentines reinvented money in the form of a gold florin. This currency was the engine that drove Europe out of the Dark Ages, a term invented by Petrarch, a Florentine whose family had been exiled to Arezzo. They financed the development of industry all over Europe, from Britain to Bruges, Lyon, and Hungary.
They financed the English kings during the Hundred Years’ War. They financed the papacy, including constructing the papal palace in Avignon and the reconstruction of St Peter’s and the Vatican when the papacy returned to Rome from the “Babylonian captivity”.
With 94 million tourists per year (2019) according to with ENIT, Italy is the third most visited country in international tourism arrivals, with 217.7 million foreign visitors nights spent and a total of 432.6 million visitors. According to estimates by the Bank of Italy of 2018, the tourism sector directly generates more than 5% of the national GDP (13% considering also the indirectly generated GDP) and represents over 6% of the employed.
People mainly visit Italy for its rich culture, cuisine, history, fashion and art, its beautiful coastline and beaches, its mountains, and priceless ancient monuments. Italy also contains more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the world.
As of 2018, the Italian places of culture (which include museums, attractions, parks, archives, and libraries) amounted to 6,610. Active hotel businesses are 33,000, while non-hotel businesses are 183,000. The tourist flow in the coastal resorts is 53%; the best-equipped cities are Grosseto for farmhouses, Vieste for campsites and tourist villages, and Cortina d’Ampezzo mountain huts.
Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of about 366,500. The city is a cultural, artistic, and architectural gem inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Florence was the home to powerful families, creative geniuses, and scientific masterminds who left their legacies in the city’s many museums and art galleries. The city also has a vibrant literary history, being the birthplace of the famous poet Dante, and standard Italian today is primarily based on the dialect of Tuscan spoken in Florence.
Understand of Florence Politically, economically, and culturally, Florence was the most important city in Europe for around 250 years, from 1300 until the early 1500s.
Florentines reinvented money in the form of a gold florin. This currency was the engine that drove Europe out of the Dark Ages, a term invented by Petrarch, a Florentine whose family had been exiled to Arezzo. They financed the development of industry all over Europe, from Britain to Bruges, Lyon, and Hungary.
They financed the English kings during the Hundred Years’ War. They financed the papacy, including constructing the papal palace in Avignon and the reconstruction of St Peter’s and the Vatican when the papacy returned to Rome from the “Babylonian captivity”.
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