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Tourist Attractions in Tuscany
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| One of Florence's oldest monuments is the charming octagonal Baptistery of St.
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| The Castle of Brolio boasts Lombard origins, even though unfortunately there is no trace of the ancient fortalice nowadays except for the location.
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| The castle was built around 1170, when the nobles of Montauto were mentioned for the first time.
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| Poppiano has been inhabited since the Roman Age as probable residence of a Roman family belonging to the gens Papia or Poppeia.
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| The freestanding Giotto’s bell tower, also called Torre Campanaria di Santa Maria del Fiore, is located in Piazza del Duomo – Firenze.
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| The Meleto Castle was built as site of the monks belonging to the Vallumbrosan Order of the nearby Abbey of Coltibuono, and later contended for a long time between the provinces of Siena and Florence, thanks to the strategic position, overlooking the linking road between Chianti and Upper Valdarno.
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| Palazzo Corsini was born as a "casino" (it used to be a small property surrounded by a huge garden arriving to the bank of River Arno, where it rises the Lungarno Corsini), belonging to the Ardighelli family.
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| Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza was commissioned by Cosimo I Medici, between 1561 and 1569.
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| Palazzo Pitti ranks as Florence's most importance palazzo together with the Palazzo Vecchio (they are joined by a passage) and the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.
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| Palazzo Vecchio, Florence town hall, was built in 1299 and designed by Arnolfo di Cambio (1245-1302).
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| The Piazza del Campo is one of the most representative and celebrated medieval squares of the Italian Peninsula.
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| The oldest bridge in Florence, created in 1345 by Neri di Fioravante (or Taddeo Gaddi, accordingly with Vasari) and the only one remained intact even after the Second World War.
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| This stunning monument was founded in the XIII century and enlarged in 1437, when the Dominican monks moved there from Fiesole, coming at Cosimo il Vecchio's invitation, who called Michelozzo (his favourite architect) to finish the works, in 1444.
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| This incredible work of art and humanity got the name from the biblical episode of "the slaughter of the innocents", and was instituted just to welcome abandoned children.
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The "Giardino Zoologico di Pistoia", was founded in 1970 for want of Raffaello Galardini.
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