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Historic Centre of Florence

Italy
Date of Inscription: 1982
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)
Core zone: 505 ha
City and Province of Florence, Tuscany
N43 46 23.016 E11 15 21.996
Ref: 174

Brief Description

Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), the Church of Santa Croce, the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, the work of great masters such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli and Michelangelo.

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