29 Facts About Renaissance Florence

1. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

2. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

3. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

4. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

5. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

6. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

7. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

8. Renaissance Florence has always boasted an intellectual elite rivaling that of any city in Italy.

9. Renaissance Florence has numerous museums, mostly devoted to painting and sculpture.

10. Renaissance Florence was founded to control the only practicable north-south crossing of the Arno River to and from the three passes through the Apennines: one to Faenza and two to Bologna.

11. Renaissance Florence was marked by its own version of humanism which was based on ancient Greco-Roman philosophies.

12. Renaissance Florence was a period in Europe between the Middle Ages and the modern era.

13. Renaissance Florence became a musical centre during the Middle Ages and music and the performing arts remain an important part of its culture.

14. In 2016, Renaissance Florence had 20,588 hotel rooms in 570 facilities.

15. Renaissance Florence is believed to have the greatest concentration of art in the world.

16. In 2013, Renaissance Florence was listed as the second best world city by Conde Nast Traveler.

17. Renaissance Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance" for its monuments, churches, and buildings.

18. Renaissance Florence has a humid subtropical climate, tending to Mediterranean (Csa).

19. Renaissance Florence was liberated by New Zealand, South African and British troops on 4 August 1944.

20. Renaissance Florence was the prefecture of the French departement of Arno from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814.

21. Renaissance Florence was conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital.

22. Renaissance Florence was home to the Medici, one of European history's most important noble families.

23. Renaissance Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era.

24. Renaissance Florence is one of Italy's most stunning cities, with an historic city centre—a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1982—featuring an impressive collection of art galleries and an imposing cathedral.

25. Renaissance Florence empties out after the Christmas and New Year holidays, making this one of the best periods to visit.

26. In 2002, Renaissance Florence was the seat of the first European Social Forum.

27. Renaissance Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses.

28. Renaissance Florence benefited materially and culturally from this sea-change in social consciousness.

29. Renaissance Florence is a major historical city in Italy, distinguished as one of the most outstanding economic, cultural, political and artistic centres in the Italian peninsula from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance.