Florence has been for many years the crib of the culture and the art, and the greatest artists of the renaissance and all are been born the history of the humanity.
The artistic patrimony is infinite: the museums (Uffizi, Pitti, Bargello, Archaeological, Museum of Modern Art, Museum dell'Opera, the Duomo); the libraries, the academies, and the garden (Cascine, Boboli). The religious monuments like the Dome (Santa Maria del Fiore), the cupola of the Brunelleschi and the bell tower of Giotto, guards one pietà of Michelangelo; the baptistery with the bronze doors of Ghiberti and Andrea Pisano; Santa Maria Novella; Santa Croce, in which the tombs are found of Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Galileo, Alfieri, Foscolo, Rossini; San Lorenzo with the sacristies of the Brunelleschi (old) and the Michelangelo (new).
The architecture is expressed from huge works, which the Palazzo Vecchio, the loggia dell'Orcagna, l'Ospedale degli Innocenti (Brunelleschi) the Palazzi dei Medici, Pitti (painting gallery) and the Ponte Vecchio, characteristic for its double row of shops, from the 1500 exclusive rights of the goldsmiths.