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=== Florence ===
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[[File:Piazza Signoria - Firenze.jpg|thumb|center|400px|[[Piazza della Signoria]] in [[Florence]] with the [[Palazzo Vecchio]] and the [[Loggia dei Lanzi]]]]
[[File:Catedral, Florencia, Italia, 2022-09-19, DD 91.jpg|thumb|The [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] cathedral by [[Filippo Brunelleschi]], which has the largest brick dome in the world<ref name="www.tripleman.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brunelleschisdome.com/ |title=brunelleschi's dome - Brunelleschi's Dome |publisher=Brunelleschisdome.com |access-date=2010-03-25| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100416043408/http://www.brunelleschisdome.com/| archive-date= 16 April 2010 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status = live}}</ref>]]

[[Florence]] is a city in Central-Northern [[Italy]] and the capital city of the [[Tuscany]] [[Regions of Italy|region]]. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.<ref>Bilancio demografico anno 2013, dati [http://demo.istat.it/ ISTAT]</ref>

Florence was a centre of [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Europe]]an trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://search.barnesandnoble.com/Economy-of-Renaissance-Florence/Richard-A-Goldthwaite/e/9780801889820 |title= Economy of Renaissance Florence, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Book – Barnes & Noble |publisher= Search.barnesandnoble.com |date= 23 April 2009 |access-date= 22 January 2010 |archive-date= 4 April 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100404082637/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Economy-of-Renaissance-Florence/Richard-A-Goldthwaite/e/9780801889820 |url-status= dead }}</ref> It is considered by many academics<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tag/firenze-del-rinascimento/ |title = Firenze-del-rinascimento: Documenti, foto e citazioni nell'Enciclopedia Treccani}}</ref> to have been the birthplace of the [[Renaissance]], becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center.<ref>Spencer Baynes, L.L.D., and [[William Robertson Smith|W. Robertson Smith]], L.L.D., ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1907: p. 675</ref> During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Florence {{!}} History, Geography, & Culture|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Florence|access-date=2021-11-03|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful [[House of Medici|Medici]] family and numerous religious and republican revolutions.<ref>{{cite book |last= Brucker|first= Gene A. |title= Renaissance Florence |url= https://archive.org/details/renaissanceflore00bruc_0|url-access= registration|year= 1969 |publisher= Wiley |location= New York |isbn= 978-0520046955|page= [https://archive.org/details/renaissanceflore00bruc_0/page/23 23]}}</ref> From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the [[Kingdom of Italy]] (established in 1861). The [[Florentine dialect]] forms the base of [[Italian language|Standard Italian]] and it became the language of culture throughout Italy<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/storia-della-lingua_(Enciclopedia-dell'Italiano)/ |title= storia della lingua in 'Enciclopedia dell'Italiano' |publisher= Treccani.it|access-date= 28 October 2017}}</ref> due to the prestige of the masterpieces by [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Petrarch]], [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] and [[Francesco Guicciardini]].

The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the [[Historic Centre of Florence]] a [[World Heritage Site]] in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, [[Italian Renaissance art|Renaissance art and architecture]] and monuments.<ref name="britannica.com">{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/210642/Florence# |title=Florence (Italy) |publisher=Britannica.com |access-date=22 January 2010}}</ref> The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the [[Uffizi Gallery]] and the [[Palazzo Pitti]], and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics.<ref name="time.com">{{cite magazine|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822094,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101125213010/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822094,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 25 November 2010 |title= FASHION: Italy's Renaissance |magazine= TIME |date= 4 February 1952 |access-date= 9 October 2013}}</ref> Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, ''[[Forbes]]'' has ranked it as the most beautiful city in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/22/paris-london-travel-lifestyle-travel-tourism-new-york-top-ten-cities.html |title= World's Most Beautiful Cities |author= Tim Kiladze |date= 22 January 2010 |work= Forbes |access-date= 12 April 2011}}</ref>

Florence plays an important role in [[Italian fashion]],<ref name="time.com"/> and is ranked in the top 15 [[fashion capital]]s of the world by [[Global Language Monitor]];<ref name="languagemonitor">{{cite web|url= http://www.languagemonitor.com/fashion-capitals/paris-towers-over-world-of-fashion-as-top-global-fashion-capital-for-2015/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161212133429/http://www.languagemonitor.com/fashion-capitals/paris-towers-over-world-of-fashion-as-top-global-fashion-capital-for-2015/|url-status= usurped|archive-date= 12 December 2016|title= Paris Towers Over World of Fashion as Top Global Fashion Capital for 2015 |publisher= Languagemonitor.com|access-date= 20 January 2016|date= 2017-07-06}}</ref> furthermore, it is a major national economic centre,<ref name="time.com"/> as well as a tourist and industrial hub. It is the 4th richest Italian city.<ref>{{cite web
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