Florence - Renaissance

	Ospedale degli Innocenti	The Ospedale degli Innocenti ('Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the Spedale degli Innocenti) is a historical building in Florence, central Italy. Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in 1419, it was originally a children's orphanage. It is rega...
	Basilica of Santa Maria Novella	Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated just across from the main railway station which shares its name. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a sto...
	Palazzo Medici Riccardi	The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy. The palace was designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de'Medici, head of the Medici banking family, and was built between 14...
	Palazzo Rucellai	Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial 15th century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino. Its facade was one of t...
	Pazzi Chapel	The Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a religious building in Florence, central Italy, considered to be one of the masterpieces of Renaissance architecture. It is located in the "first cloister"of the Basilica di Santa Croce. Though funds for the chapel were assembled in 1429 by Andrea Pazzi, he...
	Laurentian Library	The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) is a historical library in Florence, Italy, containing a repository of more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze under the patronage of the Medici pope, Cl...
	Uffizi	The Uffizi Gallery (Galleria degli Uffizi) is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de'Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffi...
	Florence Cathedral
	Basilica of Santa Croce

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Name	Florence
Region	Tuscany
Country	Italy (IT)
Population	370,000 inhabitants

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