Holiday Velvet Florence: Information About Florence

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About Florence

Are you looking for Florence apartment rentals, including short-term rental apartments in Florence? Choose from a selection of apartments, or other holiday accommodation In Florence. Duomo apartments are available.

Florence, the jewel of the Renaissance, has many accommodation options. Select a Florence apartment for freedom, a Florence Bed & Breakfast for comfort. Only central Florence accommodation are featured on this site so the Ponte vecchio, the Duomo and the Uffizi will be within walking distance. Florence is also surrounded by the most beautiful countryside: the picturesque hills of Tuscany.

Built in 1345, the Ponte Vecchio is the most ancient and certainly the most photographed bridge in Florence. In 1593 the Medici Grand Duke Ferdinand I (1549-1609) decided that the commerce on the bridge of butchers, grocers and blacksmiths were too unsightly so he decided to replace them all with 41 goldsmiths and eight jewelers. The bridge has been devoted solely to these two trades ever since.

Enjoy the majesty and elegance of the enormous Duomo in all it's pink, white and green splendour. The Duomo has come to symbolize Florence in the same way that the Eiffel Tower symbolizes Paris. Marvel at the towering cupola , the stunning mosaics and bronze doors of the Baptistery. Brunelleschi designed the enormous dome, and its interior features frescoes and stained-glass windows by some of the Renaissance's best: Castagno, Donatello, Uccello and Ghiberti.

Commissioned in 1296 and finally completed in 1436, the Duomo is a sight to behold and an ingenious engineering feat. Most of Europe's later domes, including St. Peter's in Rome, were built employing Brunelleschi's methods.