Monthly Archive: January 2020

If Rome is ancient history, Florence is the renaissance. The renaissance was born here, the most important figures of the this era were from here or worked here. Michelangelo, Galileo, DaVinci to name a few.  The Arno river runs through the heart of the city, separating the city into two parts. The Medici family controlled Florence for 150 years. On Easter Sunday 1478, Lorenzo de’Medici and his brother Giuliano were attacked in the Duomo in what is known as the...