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Europe For Visitors.com: Florence, or Firenze, is one of Italy's "big three" tourist destinations, along with Venice and Rome. Its great churches, world-class art museums, fine shopping, and role as the gateway to Tuscany make it even more popular now than it was when writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, E.M. Forster, and Henry James made the city irresistible to English-speaking tourists.
Don't try to do Florence in one day--allow at least several days, especially if you're interested in visiting the major churches and touring the Accademia and Uffizi Galleries.
Italian Government Tourist Board: Museums Florence has preserved its masterpieces and great works of architecture over the centuries. The most important collection of paintings in the world is offered by the Uffizi Gallery; visitors can enter the very interesting Designs and Print Room; the collection of self-portraits. Great paintings can be seen in the Gallery of Palazzo Pitti, with Tiziano’s and Raffaello’s masterpieces. Florence also has the Museum of the Costume and the Museum of the Carriages; the beautiful Italian gardens can be admired in the Giardino di Boboli. In the Museum of the Opera del Duomo the famous "Pietà" by Michelangelo can be admired. Then, there are the Museum of the Bargello, St. Mark’s Museum, the Academy Gallery and the Ethnologic Museum Stibbert.