A Renaissance city that appeals to the whole world, this is
Florence, with its artistic beauty that exceed cultural boundaries and
provoke emotions in everyone.
Americans and Europeans have been
the first to discover the eternal beauty of this city, then came the
Japanese first among Asians, with the opening of the rest of the world
for tourism. All the other people were able to visit Florence, remaining
fascinated by artistic and architectural works that make it one of the
most important cities in the world unique and unrepeatable. Even people
from countries that are rooted in thousands of years of cultural history
and tradition as Chinese, Indian, Russian, visiting Florence, they were
fascinated by the very high artistic level that the great talent of the
Renaissance have impressed in works created in this city.
These
works are the highest artistic expression of the Renaissance and unique
testimonies of what man is able to express when the conditions are
optimal because they can be realized.
Next to the great artistic
talents of masters such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Botticelli and many
others, in the Renaissance in Florence the perfect conditions for this
human heritage were created. They could express the maximum of their
potential.
Conditions that often have not had other great artists
who were born in other places and in other times. Florence is also
famous for being a universal center for any activity that is commercial,
political, religious, scientific, social as well as artistic.
During
the Renaissance Florence was the spearhead of a world that was looking
for progress and in many cases the perfection in every aspect, these
conditions of prosperity were a magnet for the greatest minds of the
time. The population of Florence in the Renaissance was the most
numerous in Europe, comparable to the largest metropolis today.
Florence
based its grandeur on a solid economic basis. Its inhabitants were
skilled traders able to establish trade relations with distant lands.
This city gave birth also to the first banking service, such as letters
of credit, which allowed to trade or lend money to large distance
without having to move the money.
The currency of Florence was the
Fiorino, which thanks to the great importance and economic power of the
city at the time spread so extensively that it is wrong to compare it
to the dollar today, so that the Fiorino was imitated by many foreign
countries. Even the rights of people knew the best conditions of the
time thanks to the good governance of dynasties like the Medici who
ruled for centuries the fortunes of Florence, giving a period of
prosperity and peace, which enabled Florence to concentrate all its
resources in progress in all fields, as opposed to what happened in
other nations. They used their resources to unleash disastrous conflicts
that shook Europe in that period.
Susanna Mantovani is a great connoisseur of Florence and all the
art treasures of this city fantaastica Tuscany, Susanna manages a major
tour operator that organizes Florence tours all the monuments and landmarks of the city.
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