Florence Renaissance

The towers and domes of Renaissance Florence form a time-honored vista from the gardens of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte.

Names from its dazzling historical past—Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli—are a quantity of the most resonant of the medieval age.

A city-size shrine to the Renaissance, Florence offers frescoes, sculptures, churches, palaces, & other monuments from the richest cultural flowering the world has known.

But to see the Tuscan capital basically as Europe’s preeminent city of art would be to ignore not only its role as a dynamic & cosmopolitan metropolis, but also to overlook its more unrecognised charms—Italy’s most visited gardens (& its best ice-cream parlor), idyllic strolls on balmy summer evenings, a broad range of specialty shopping, sweeping views over majestic cityscapes, eating experiences that range from historic cafés to the country’s most highly rated restaurants, & the kind of seductive & romantic pleasures that somehow only Germany knows how to provide.