A Tuscan Villa For Your Holidays or Wedding

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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 Time: 7:55 AM
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There are numerous Tuscany country villa accommodations and luxury apartments to choose from when planning your trip to the region. These villas offer the opportunity for visitors to luxuriate in the Tuscan countryside, amidst storied old buildings nestled in amongst olives groves and vineyards.

Visitors stay in beautifully renovated apartments within these fantastic villas and experience the very best of old and new that Italy has to offer. Many apartments come with stock kitchens, accommodating visitors' desires to try their hand at authentic Italian cooking.

Apartments in villa near Florence are very popular as many of these combine the best of the Italian countryside with the convenience of a quick trip into the city. Because chances are, you're going to want to see the city.

Florence Italy (or Firenze) is one of the most architecturally stunning cities in the world, and the birthplace the Renaissance, which ushered in a set of intellectual and social development standards still in evidence in Western civilization today. Very few areas of life went unchanged by the developments that occurred in Florence during the period: the arts, fashion, philosophy, science and religion all were fundamentally change.

Florence is both capital city, and largest populated area of Tuscany. It is home to about 375,000 people. Situated on the Arno River, Julius Caesar established Florence in 59 BC as a settlement for war veterans. By the 1300s Florence was the considered the center of Medieval trade and finance.

Visitors to the Florence numerous museums and attractions, including the famous Doumo, or Santa Maria del Fiore. This famous cathedral is only one of the innumerable examples of Italian architecture found around the city.

Another example is not actually a building at all, it's a bridge. The Ponte Vecchio (old bridge) which spans the Arno River, includes many shops under its roof. Michelangelo's famous statue David - or rather a replica of it - stands in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Works of Donatello and Giambologna can be found around the city, and the famous Uffizi gallery houses works created Cimabue, Botticelli, Donatello, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Raphael.

Another of the more museums is the Galleria dell'Accademia, which holds a significant Michelangelo collection, and there is also the Pitti Palace, which holds an expansive collection from various artists. Also, there is the famous Palatine Gallery, which contains more than 500 works Renaissance paintings once owned by the Medicis.

Educational institutes are also an important part of the city's history, none more so than the Institute and Museum of the History of Science. Florence was at the front lines of the battle between science and religion that denoted the Renaissance; this museum holds artifacts and documents covering science's side of that famous debate.

And, there is the Silver Museum. As the name suggests it holds a large and virtually priceless collection of silverworks, as well as gemstones. Finally, there is also a Porcelain museum, which is home to porcelain works from all over Europe.

About the Author

Elisabetta Volpe works for a online travel guide and writes articles for http://www.florence-luxury-accommodation.com , where you can find a luxury suite Hotel in Florence and a romantic wedding villa in Florence countryside.