Florence

Travel tips for Florence (4)

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  Florence Cathedral and Brunelleschi's Dome

  Florence's cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, with its marble façade of green, white and pink, and its huge red-brick dome by Filippo Brunel…

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  Michelangelo's David, Galleria dell'Accademia

  The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is home to Michelangelo's David, the 5 m marble statue carved between 1501 and 1504, displayed unde…

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  Uffizi Gallery, Florence

  One of the world's great art museums, in a Renaissance building beside the Arno, with masterpieces such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and …

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  Ponte Vecchio, Florence

  Florence's oldest bridge, a medieval stone bridge over the Arno lined with jewellers' and goldsmiths' shops built out over the water.