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Florence has a great tradition in fashion, making it one of the busiest in the country and beyond. In addition to the workshops, especially for leather goods (many are between Piazza Santa Croce, Borgo Greeks), the industry is very important High Fashion: in fact the city boasts designers such as Gucci, Enrico Coveri, Roberto Cavalli , Salvatore Ferragamo, Patrizia Pepe, Emilio Pucci, Roy Rogers, Conte of Florence and many others. The major fashion boutiques are concentrated in the luxury shopping district, in Via de 'Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova. The city's only museum dedicated to Italian fashion, the Gallery of Costume, which traces a detailed history of fashion that have taken place over time, with a collection that reaches more than 6,000 artifacts, including antique clothing, accessories, theatrical costumes and of great documentary film, and numerous examples of prestigious Italian and foreign designers. There is also the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in the Palazzo Spini-Ferroni in Via de 'Tornabuoni and in this city was held by way of Serragli in 1953 the first parade of Italian haute couture. Florence hosts an annual series of fashion events that are among the most prestigious and important international scene: Pitti Immagine.

Florence is universally recognized as a city of art, with a priceless heritage of architecture, paintings, sculptures, scientific and historical memories, which form the fabric of the city, like a button air museum.

The heart of Florence is Piazza della Signoria, with its majestic Palazzo Vecchio, with a gallery of masterpieces of sculpture in the Loggia dei Lanzi, and the nearby Galleria degli Uffizi, one of the most famous art museums in the world. Not far away is the religious center of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, with its majestic dome (the largest ever built) that at the time of the Grand Duchy, it was said that with his shadow reached to cover the whole of Tuscany, the enormous Cathedral is beautifully accompanied by the Bell Tower, one of the most beautiful in Italy, and the Baptistery of San Giovanni, with its famous bronze doors amongst these is the golden gate of heaven.

The Arno River, which passes through the city, occupies a place in Florentine history par with the people who live there. Historically, local people have a love-hate relationship with the Arno, which led to either the benefits of trade, and disasters of floods. Among the bridges that cross the Ponte Vecchio is unique, with features jewelers in houses built on it. Crossed by the noble Vasari Corridor, is the only bridge in the city to be passed unscathed through the Second World War.

In addition to the Uffizi, Florence has other museums which would be the main artistic attraction than any other major city in the world: the Accademia Gallery, the Bargello and the Pitti Palace with its eight museums, including the Palatine Gallery. The Florentines boast of possessing the best example of beauty in both women (of Botticelli's Venus) and male (the David of Michelangelo).

The left river of the Arno (the Oltrarno) is an area rich in monuments which can still be felt, in his old craft shops, the atmosphere of Florence for a time, for example, described by Vasco Pratolini. But there are many literary ideas throughout the city: the neighborhoods of the tower houses, where the tombstones recall the ways that these places inspired by Dante Alighieri, the serenity of the Medici villas, where they often met the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo the Magnificent , to the theaters to the Pergola and the Boboli Gardens, where they were staged for the first time melodramas that led to opera.

Florence as the "cradle of the Renaissance" has its masterpieces in the works of Filippo Brunelleschi (the Hospital of the Innocents, the church of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito) and Leon Battista Alberti (the facade of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai) but other periods have left their artistic masterpieces: the Romanesque San Miniato al Monte, the Gothic Santa Croce (where are the graves of the Italic glories, as defined Ugo Foscolo, he also buried there), the vagaries of Giambologna's Mannerist Bernardo Buontalenti or (as the Fountain of Neptune or the Garden of Boboli), up to the masterpieces of the great Italian architects of the twentieth century as the resort of Santa Maria Novella and the Stadio Artemio Franchi, respectively Giovanni Michelucci and Pier Luigi Nervi .

The center of Florence, with its hundreds of business is a paradise for shopping and leisure, from the chic boutiques, cafes and historic concert by the lively outdoor market historians, as well as host to numerous nightclubs, discos , American bar, lounge bar and meeting places for drinks (the famous Negroni cocktail was born here).