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Archive for December, 2009

The Uffizi Gallery

December 4th, 2009
The Uffizi building that is now seat of the Gallery was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in a period when Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically...View Property

The Cathedral or Duomo of Florence

December 4th, 2009
This typical Italian Gothic building, the Cathedral of Florence, is dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore. The church was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio (c1245-1302) who considerably enlarged the existing religious structure. Finished around 1367, the...View Property

Hotel Relais Marignolle

December 3rd, 2009
The Hotel Marignolle Relais & Charme is surrounded by the typical scenery of the Florentine hills, with cypresses and cane-apple trees, broom bushes and pine trees, amongst the scents of lavender, rosemary, time and catmint. Almond...View Property