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City guide · Italy
Florence holds 361,625 residents and the visitor numbers of a far larger place, and that compression is the whole experience. The Roman colony of 59 BC was laid out like an army camp, and its right angles still govern a historic centre that has been a UNESCO site since 1982 and can be walked across without hurrying. The Arno splits it, the Uffizi on the north bank and Palazzo Pitti on the south, a few minutes apart over the bridges. Standard Italian is the Florentine dialect, carried out of these same few streets by the writers who lived in them. Rome is 275 km to the southeast.
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The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze is a state museum on Via Ricasoli, ten minutes' walk north of the Duomo, and it exists in its present form because of one statue.
The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo is the storehouse and the explanation of the buildings standing outside its own door.
Set your days, your pace and the hours you actually want to be out. The planner works around closing days and travel time, and leaves room to eat.
