Florence: A Traveler's Guide to Its Gems & Giants
- ISBN-10
- 0998192600
- ISBN-13
- 9780998192604
- Series
- Florence
- Category
- Florence (Italy)
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09
- Publisher
- 1-Take Multimedia
- Author
- Patty Civalleri
Description
Plunge into a non-traditional Florence Italy Travel Guide that will get you hooked before you ever leave home. In this guide book , you will not find information about food, bars or hotels in Florence. Any website or app will give you such information, right? Sure, while on your trip, you will want to enjoy great Italian meals and wine . And you will. Because amazing food is on every single block of this city - but you won t need a guidebook to find them. The reason why Florence is important is because this is where the Renaissance began. Florence is all about stories - stories about romance, mystery, adventure, pain and hardship, joy and laughter. Stories about that group of rock stars that you may already know something about: Michelangelo , da Vinci , Botticelli , Donatello , Machiavelli , Raphael , Dante , Galileo and more. But did you know that they were all from Florence? That most of these guys actually knew each other? And that these were the guys that started the Renaissance? See? You have just learned something cool... It s that easy! Think "PEOPLE" Magazine meets Michelangelo ~ Trivia and factoids of the Florence Renaissance You will want to read this book during the plane flight over!
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