When looking for Florence, Italy on an Italian map, you most likely will be unable to find it - unless you are aware of it's Italian translation: Firenze
Florence is considered the "City of the Renaissance" and has been both the birthplace and chosen home of many famous Italians; Dante, Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Donatello, Galileo Galilei, Catherine de' Medici, Luigi Cherubini, Antonio Meucci, Guccio Gucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli, and Emilio Pucci (to name a few).Don't know who they all are? Look them up!
Michelangelo's famous statue David is also located in Florence. Having seen other works of Michelangelo in The Louvre in Paris, and been completely entranced by the detail carved into the marble, I can only imagine what this statue, hailed as one of his greatest masterpieces, looks like.
If you click on the link at the top of the page you can visit a virtual tour of Florence, as well as download a free audio guide for your iPod, iPhone or MP3 player.
