Florence, Italy, is where the Renaissance was born and where art changed forever. Known as the birthplace of this influential ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

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Eager to flush Cosimo out of Florence, he allowed the head of the Medici family to stay alive, gathering support whilst in exile. And Rinaldo's rash decision to besiege the Palazzo Vecchio when he ...

The closed, second-story passage runs the length of the entire bridge and connects the Palazzo Vecchio (town hall) in the heart of Florence with the Palazzo Pitti on the Oltrarno, the Arno's opposite ...

Sitting on the opposite end of Ponte Vecchio from central Florence, the Palazzo Pitti houses a total of six museums and a chapel. The palace is open Tuesday through Sunday from 8:15 a.m. to 6:30 p ...

Rich in honey-hued basilica's and elaborately decorated baroque cathedrals, the Southern Italian city of Lecce is often ...

Anselm Kiefer fell in love with Palazzo Strozzi at first sight. During a school trip to Florence in the late 1960s, a teenage Kiefer was immediately taken by what he describes as the palace’s “minimal ...

Here, we’ve rounded up 12 hotel choices in Florence that will save you some ... with direct visuals of the bustling Ponte Vecchio bridge). Yet, we’d be remiss not to mention the hotel ...