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Florence, the capital of Tuscany, is home too many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. One of the most famous places is the Duomo, the cathedral with a tiled dome designed by Brunelleschi and Giotto's bell tower. The Accademia Gallery exhibits Michelangelo's David sculpture while in the Uffizi Gallery there are Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, commonly known as the Duomo of Florence, is the main Florentine church, symbol of the city and one of the most famous in Italy; when it was completed, in the fifteenth century, it was the largest church in the world, while today it is considered the third in Europe after St. Peter's in Rome and the Duomo in Milan. It stands on the foundations of the ancient cathedral of Florence, the church of Santa Reparata, in a point of the city that has hosted religious buildings since Roman times.
The Ponte Vecchio is a bridge that spans the Arno river in Florence, about 150 meters downstream of the area where the river naturally presents one of the points where the riverbed is narrowest within the city in its upstream section of the Cascine. The bridge connects via Por Santa Maria to via de 'Guicciardini.
The David is a sculpture made of marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti, datable between 1501 and the beginning of 1504 and preserved in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. Widely considered a masterpiece of world sculpture, it is one of the emblems of the Renaissance as well as a symbol of Florence and Italy abroad.
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli and is currently kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, often taken as a symbol of Florence itself and its art. It represents one of the highest creations of the Florentine painter's aesthetic, as well as a universal ideal of female beauty.
