Florence is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, with 361,625 inhabitants as of 2026. It is also the capital of the eponymous metropolitan province, which counts 988,49
Palacio Viejo, Florencia, Italia, 2022 09 18, DD 236 238 HDR
Catedral, Florencia, Italia, 2022 09 19, DD 91
Panorama of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the
Probable self-portrait of Botticelli, in his Adoration of the Magi (1475)
Detail from Botticelli's most famous work, The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486)
Via Borgo Ognissanti in 2008, with the eponymous church halfway down on the right. Like the street, it has had a Baroque makeover since Botticelli's time.
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, c. 1470–1475, Louvre, Paris