Holiday & Cookery in Tuscany - Firenze

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Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, Italy, and of the province of Florence. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence lies on the Arno River and has a population of around 400,000 people, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000 persons (about 1,000,000 with the important near city Prato). A centre of medieval European trade and finance, the city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and was long ruled by the Medici family. Florence is also famous for its magnificent art and architecture. The city has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. The "Historic Centre of Florence" was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1982. (Wikipedia).

Notable residents: Leone Battista Alberti, polymath. Dante Alighieri, poet. Francesco Petrarca, poet. Filippo Brunelleschi, famous architect. Giovanni Boccaccio, famous poet. Giotto di Bondone, early 14th century painter. Michelangelo Buonarroti, a famous sculptor, also famous for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Medici Family. Girolamo Mei, historian and humanist. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor. Donatello, sculptor. Masaccio, painter. Pietro Cimabue, painter. Raphael, painter. Leonardo da Vinci, famous for his Mona Lisa and other paintings, inventions, and scientific experiments. Niccolò Machiavelli, famous Renaissance poet and philosopher. Giorgio Vasari, painter, architect, and historian. Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher. Frescobaldi Family, notable bankers and wine producers. Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author. Florence Nightingale, pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. Salvatore Ferragamo, Legendary "shoemaker to the stars". Gucci family, worldwide famous fashion hous. Angelo Acciaioli, bishop of Florence. Amerigo Vespucci, navigator and discoverer of America…

The Municipal districts are: Bagno a Ripoli, Barberino di Mugello, Barberino Val d'Elsa, Borgo San Lorenzo, Calenzano, Campi Bisenzio, Capraia e Limite, Castelfiorentino, Cerreto Guidi, Certaldo, Dicomano, Empoli, Fiesole, Figline Valdarno, Firenze, Firenzuola, Fucecchio, Gambassi Terme, Greve in Chianti, Impruneta, Incisa Valdarno, Lastra a Signa, Londa, Marradi, Montaione, Montelupo Fiorentino, Montespertoli, Palazzuolo sul Senio, Pelago, Pontassieve, Reggello, Rignano sull'Arno, Rufina, San Casciano Val di Pesa, San Godenzo, San Piero a Sieve, Scandicci, Scarperia, Sesto Fiorentino, Signa, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, Vaglia, Vicchio, Vinci.

HISTORY OF TUSCAN AND FLORENTINE COOKERY - Etruscans to Medici family, till today