The precious stone of Tuscan region, Florence is a urban of medium Italy on the Arno River, at the ft of the Apennines, easterly of Pisa. It is the property town of Tuscany, the sector in the northwestern Italy encircled by Apennines, the Ligurian Sea, and Tyrrhenian Sea. Florence is besides familiar as Firenze.
Florence was a important city-state low the Medici home. The urban center was the central of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th period to the 16th century, and during that occurrence artists and intellectuals like Boccaccio, Botticelli, Dante, Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Niccolò Machiavelli etc. flourished in the metropolis. It is aforesaid that of the 1,000 best critical European artists of the ordinal millennium, 350 lived or worked in Florence.