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Short history of Florence:
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"Florentia", the flowrishing,
was the name given from the Roman to the small village founded
in the first century B.C. at the foot of the ancient etruscan
Fiesole.
The etrurian, ancient and mysterious people, of which we
knows just a little, but that they have left in the outskirtses
of Florence numerous testimonies, installed on the first
on surrounding hills flat of the Arno river from VII-VI
century. At first constructed like a "roman castrum",
Florentia soon assumed the look of one city with its forum
(today Public square of the Republic), the thermae (via
of the Thermal Bath), the amphitheatre (via Torta).
Then the times of the Empire decline and the political fragmentation
came, and the feudal system succeeded in all the Italy.
The city, constituted from the start of the XII century
like Municipality, began to expand itself until subjecting
all the average area of Arno river and the surrounding reliefs.
In spite of the inner fights, between families before, and
after, between Guelphs (loyal to Pope) and Ghibellines (loyal
to Emperor) then, from the 1200's began the closing of the
city in the art works, in the culture and the international
commerce, that it caught up its apex in the 1400's under
the Lordship of Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici. After the
dead of Lorenzo, in 1492, Florence lived along period of
wars that then carried to the end of the Florentine Republic
and to the birth of the Gran Duchy of Tuscany, managed from
a branch cadet of the Medici and then from the Asburgo-Lorena.
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La città iniziò
per l’occasione una profonda ristrutturazione che
portò all’abbattimento delle mura e alla cancellazione
di alcuni antichi quartieri del centro conferendo a Firenze
l’aspetto attuale.
The Gran Duchy survived, with alternate fates, until political
unification of Itlay, of which Florence, from 1865 to 1871,
was the capital.
In this time, the city began a deep restructure that carried
to demolition of walls and to the cancellation of some ancient
quarters of the center, conferring to Florence the present
look.
For more informations about Florence: APT
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