Florence
² Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy, with a population of about 367,000. The city is a cultural, artistic and architectural gem, and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Uffizi Gallery and Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower.
Uffizi Gallery
Museum
Photo: Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.
Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower
Church
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in Florence, Italy. Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed by 1436 with a dome…
Piazza della Signoria
Square
Photo: Giuseppe Zocchi, Public domain.
Piazza della Signoria is a W-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Central Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fiesole and Scandicci.
Fiesole
Photo: Discanto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fiesole is a city in Tuscany close to Florence. Get the number 7 bus from San Marco piazza in Florence - Fiesole is the last stop. Tickets can be purchased from any tabacchi and cost between €1.20 and €2.
Scandicci
Photo: Morelli Dario, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scandicci is a commune of about 50,000 inhabitants in the Province of Florence in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Bagno a Ripoli
Town
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bagno a Ripoli is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 7 kilometres southeast of Florence. The International School of Florence has its primary school campus in the comune.
Florence
- Categories: commune of Italy, big city, capital city, Italian city-state, and locality
- Location: Florence, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
43.7698° or 43° 46′ 11″ northLongitude
11.2556° or 11° 15′ 20″ eastPopulation
383,000Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)IATA airport code
FLRUnited Nations Location Code
IT FLROpen location code
8FMHQ794+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 61753360OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3176959Wikidata ID
Q2044
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Florence” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Флоренциа”
- Afrikaans: “Florence”
- Albanian: “Firenca”
- Albanian: “Firence”
- Albanian: “Firencia”
- Amharic: “ፍሎረንስ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Φλωρεντία”
- Arabic: “فلورنسا”
- Aragonese: “Florencia”
- Armenian: “Ֆլորենցիա”
- Arpitan: “Fllorence”
- Asturian: “Florencia”
- Aymara: “Firenze”
- Azerbaijani: “Florensiya”
- Balinese: “Firénzé”
- Bashkir: “Флоренция”
- Basque: “Florentzia”
- Bavarian: “Florenz”
- Belarusian: “Фларэнцыя”
- Belarusian: “Флярэнцыя”
- Bengali: “ফ্লোরেন্স”
- Bosnian: “Firenca”
- Breton: “Firenze”
- Bulgarian: “Флоренция”
- Burmese: “ဖလော်ရင့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Florència”
- Cebuano: “Florencia”
- Cebuano: “Florensiya”
- Central Bikol: “Florence”
- Central Kurdish: “فلۆرێنس”
- Chechen: “Флоренци”
- Chinese: “Firenze”
- Chinese: “佛罗伦萨”
- Chinese: “佛羅倫斯”
- Chinese: “翡冷翠”
- Chuvash: “Флоренци”
- Cornish: “Florens”
- Corsican: “Firenze”
- Corsican: “Fiurenza”
- Crimean Tatar: “Florentsiya”
- Croatian: “Firenca”
- Czech: “Florencie”
- Danish: “Firenze”
- Dimli (individual language): “Floransa”
- Dutch: “Firenze”
- Dutch: “Florence”
- Eastern Mari: “Флоренций”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فلورنسا”
- Erzya: “Флоренция ош”
- Esperanto: “Florenco”
- Estonian: “Firenze”
- Extremaduran: “Florencia”
- Extremaduran: “Floréncia”
- Faroese: “Firense”
- Fijian: “Folorenisi”
- Finnish: “Firenze”
- French: “Firenze”
- French: “Florence, Toscane”
- French: “Florence”
- Galician: “Florencia”
- Georgian: “ფლორენცია”
- German: “Florenz”
- Greek: “Φλωρεντία”
- Guarani: “Florénsia”
- Gujarati: “ફ્લોરેન્સ”
- Haitian: “Florence”
- Hakka Chinese: “Firenze”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fu̍t-lò-lùn-sṳ̂”
- Hebrew: “פירנצה”
- Hindi: “फ़्लोरेन्स”
- Hungarian: “Fiorenza”
- Hungarian: “Firenze”
- Icelandic: “Fagurborg”
- Icelandic: “Flórens”
- Ido: “Firenze”
- Inari Sami: “Firenze”
- Indonesian: “Firenze”
- Interlingua: “Florentia”
- Interlingue: “Firenze”
- Irish: “Flórans”
- Italian: “Comune di Firenze”
- Italian: “Fiorenza”
- Italian: “Firenze, Italia”
- Italian: “Firenze, Toscana”
- Italian: “Firenze”
- Italian: “Florentia”
- Japanese: “フィレンチェ”
- Japanese: “フィレンツェ”
- Japanese: “フィレンツェ市”
- Japanese: “フローランス”
- Japanese: “フローレンス”
- Javanese: “Firenze”
- Kabiyè: “Florɛnsɩ”
- Kabyle: “Flurinsa”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ಲೋರೆನ್ಸ”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ಲೋರೆನ್ಸ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Florenciya”
- Kashmiri: “فلوریٚنٛس”
- Kazakh: “Флоренция қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Флоренция”
- Kinaray-A: “Florensiya”
- Kirghiz: “Флоренция”
- Komi: “Флоренция”
- Kongo: “Firenze”
- Korean: “플로렌스”
- Korean: “피렌체”
- Kotava: “Firenze”
- Kurdish: “Firenze”
- Ladin: “Firënza”
- Ladin: “Firenze”
- Ladin: “Florence”
- Ladin: “Florentia”
- Ladin: “Florenz”
- Latin: “Florencia”
- Latin: “Florentia”
- Latvian: “Florence”
- Lezghian: “Флоренция”
- Ligurian: “Firense”
- Limburgan: “Florence”
- Lingala: “Firenze”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Firenze”
- Literary Chinese: “佛羅倫斯”
- Literary Chinese: “佛羅倫薩”
- Literary Chinese: “翡冷翠”
- Lithuanian: “Florencija”
- Lombard: “Firenz”
- Low German: “Florenz”
- Luxembourgish: “Florenz”
- Macedonian: “Фиренца”
- Maithili: “फ्लोरेन्स”
- Malagasy: “Florencia”
- Malay: “Firenze”
- Malay: “Florence”
- Malayalam: “ഫ്ലോറൻസ്”
- Maltese: “Firenze”
- Manx: “Firenze”
- Marathi: “फिरेंझे”
- Marathi: “फ्लोरेन्स”
- Mazanderani: “فلورانس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Firenze”
- Mingrelian: “ფლორენცია”
- Moksha: “Фирэнцэ”
- Moksha: “Флорэнция”
- Mongolian: “Флоренц”
- Moroccan Arabic: “فلورينسا”
- Narom: “Fleurenche”
- Nauru: “Firenza”
- Neapolitan: “Sciorenza”
- Nepali: “फ्लोरेन्स”
- Newari: “फ्लोरेन्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Florenz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Firenze”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Firenze”
- Norwegian: “Firenze”
- Novial: “Firenze”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Florença”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Flourènço”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Florentia”
- Ossetian: “Флоренци”
- Pampanga: “Florence”
- Pampanga: “Florensia”
- Pampanga: “Plorensya”
- Panjabi: “ਫਲੋਰੈਂਸ”
- Papiamento: “Florenza”
- Persian: “فلورانس”
- Picard: “Florinche”
- Piemontese: “Firense”
- Polish: “Florencja”
- Portuguese: “Florença”
- Pushto: “فلورانس”
- Quechua: “Firenze”
- Romanian: “Florența”
- Romansh: “Firenza”
- Russian: “Флоренция (город)”
- Russian: “Флоренция”
- Sakizaya: “Fo-lu-lun-se”
- Samogitian: “Florencėjė”
- Sanskrit: “फ्लोरेंस”
- Sanskrit: “फ्लोरेंस”
- Sardinian: “Firentze”
- Sardinian: “Firenze”
- Saterfriesisch: “Florenz”
- Scots: “Firenze”
- Scots: “Florence”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Firenze”
- Serbian: “Фиренца”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Firenca”
- Sicilian: “Firenzi”
- Silesian: “Firenze”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ලොරන්ස්”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්ලෝරන්ස්”
- Slovak: “Florencia”
- Slovenian: “Firence”
- Slovenian: “Florenca”
- South Azerbaijani: “فلورانس”
- Spanish: “Florencia”
- Swahili: “Firenze”
- Swedish: “Florens”
- Swiss German: “Florenz”
- Tagalog: “Firenze”
- Tagalog: “Florencia”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Florencia”
- Tajik: “Florensija”
- Tajik: “Флоренсия”
- Talysh: “Florensijə”
- Talysh: “Florensiya”
- Tamil: “ஃப்ளோரன்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “புளோரன்சு”
- Tatar: “Флоренция”
- Telugu: “ఫ్లోరెన్స్”
- Thai: “ฟลอเรนซ์”
- Tibetan: “ཧྥུ་ལོ་རོན་ཟིའུ་ཡ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Florenz”
- Turkish: “Firenze”
- Turkish: “Floransa”
- Turkmen: “Florensiýa”
- Twi: “Firenze”
- Tyap: “Fi̱ra̱ntse”
- Uighur: “Florénsa”
- Ukrainian: “Флоренція”
- Upper Sorbian: “Florenc”
- Urdu: “فلورنس”
- Uzbek: “Florensiya”
- Venetian: “Firense”
- Venetian: “Firénse”
- Veps: “Florencii”
- Vietnamese: “Firenze”
- Vietnamese: “Florence, Ý”
- Vietnamese: “Florence”
- Vlaams: “Firenze”
- Vlaams: “Florence”
- Volapük: “Firenze”
- Waray (Philippines): “Florensya”
- Welsh: “Fflorens”
- Western Armenian: “Ֆլորանս”
- Western Frisian: “Florâns”
- Western Panjabi: “فلورنس”
- Wu Chinese: “佛罗伦萨”
- Xhosa: “Florence”
- Yiddish: “פירענצע”
- Yiddish: “פֿירענצע”
- Yue Chinese: “翡冷翠”
- “Firenze”
- “Fiuränza”
- “Florencėjė”
- “Florencia”
- “ma tomo Pilense”
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