Florence is certainly one of the most famous and visited monuments and rich in works of art in the world. Now has about 370,000 inhabitants and the entire metropolitan air registers around one and a half million inhabitants.
Of ancient origins, already important in Roman times, saw its peak during the course of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the Middle Ages in particular was a cultural center, commercial, economic and financial capital to become the important Grand Duchy of Tuscany under the rule of the powerful Medici family. It became capital of Italy between 1865 and 1871.
By all scholars and historians in the world, Florence is certainly regarded as the place where it originated and the Renaissance development, which became the cradle of art and architecture and civil religion. Today Florence offers to the millions of Italian and foreign tourists who visit each year, a large number of churches, monasteries, palaces and museums of outstanding beauty such as the Duomo, Santa Croce, the famous Uffizi Gallery, Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti and the splendid Piazza della Signoria.

Florence today, thanks to hundreds of hotels, bed & breakfast inns and is able to accommodate the many tourists who visit it, especially also in the center can not miss the restaurants of typical Tuscan cuisine, with its tasty pasta dishes, steak Florentine and wonderful desserts.

The entire metropolitan area of Florence, Pistoia and Prato has 1,500,000 inhabitants, as well as being an area rich in art and culture and breathtaking landscapes, is also a commercial and industrial highly developed that employs thousands of families. This area is also particularly rich in hills and terraces formed from fields cultivated with vineyards and olive groves from which we get the wine and oil, the two agricultural products typical of Tuscany