Florence - useful informations about Florence and its district

"Cradle" of the Renaissance, today Florence is stage obliged fot the touriest that come in Italy from every part of the world to admire artistics masterpieces and to immerse in a sole atmosphere. Nicknamed from Dante "noble town", is situated to the center of the italian peninsula, wet from Arno and surrounded by hills. It is considered an of the most attractive italian town, for excellence the second one "eternal town" after Rome. The town was called Florentine or Villa of the Flowers from Etruschi, and is actual the lily the symbol of this majestic town. In the list of the places from not to lose there is surely the Gallery of Offices, the Old Bridge, the Cathedral with the Battistero, the cloister of San Marcus and the homonymous museum, the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella the Cathedral of Santa Croce, the garden of Boboli, the Gallery of the Academy with the famous David. As for the cusine is keeper of a big tradition made of simple dishes, often gotten ready with poor and genuine ingredients: the bread, the oil, the vegetables, but do not be lacking not even elaborated and imaginative prescriptions, like the meats gotten ready in dolceforte, that remember the splendors and the oddities of the renaissance courts, when it is held more to astonish the table companions that to satisfy it the palate.