Florence is a major production and commercial centre in Italy, where the Florentine industrial complexes in the suburbs produce all sorts of goods, from furniture, rubber goods, chemicals, and food. The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city (Americans about 5 + 1⁄ 2 miles south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometres east of the centre on the right bank of the Arno). In the ranking list of the 15 most visited Italian art museums, ⅔ are represented by Florentine museums. The first line began operation on 14 February 2010 and connects Florence's primary intercity railway station ( Santa Maria Novella) with the southwestern suburb of Scandicci.

Other museums and galleries include the Bargello, which concentrates on sculpture works by artists including Donatello, Giambologna and Michelangelo; the Palazzo Pitti, containing part of the Medici family's former private collection. Leave the florentines to cool before lifting onto a cooling rack using a palette knife (if the florentines have been baked on greased baking trays, then allow them to harden for a few moments only before lifting onto cooling racks to cool completely). Trenitalia runs trains between the railway stations within the city, and to other destinations around Italy and Europe.Florence has large numbers of art-filled churches, such as San Miniato al Monte, San Lorenzo, Santa Maria Novella, Santa Trinita, Santa Maria del Carmine, Santa Croce, Santo Spirito, the Annunziata, Ognissanti and numerous others. The city is home of the Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, in Coverciano, Florence, the main training ground of the Italian national team, and the technical department of the Italian Football Federation. The Azzurri are from the quarter of Santa Croce, Bianchi from the quarter of Santo Spirito, Verdi are from San Giovanni and Rossi from Santa Maria Novella. The city's convention centre facilities were restructured during the 1990s and host exhibitions, conferences, meetings, social forums, concerts and other events all year.

This would occur while an instrument, usually a keyboard type such as harpsichord, played and held chords while the singer sang/spoke the monodic line. The Medici reigned as Grand Dukes of Tuscany, starting with Cosimo I de' Medici in 1569 and ending with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici in 1737.

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In the 14th century, Petrarch [94] and Giovanni Boccaccio [94] led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's death in 1321. The transit companies also accommodate travellers from the Amerigo Vespucci Airport, which is 5km (3mi) west of the city centre, and which has scheduled services run by major European carriers. During this period, the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. Leave it too late and the chocolate will have begun setting, making your pattern look ‘scraped’ and unsightly.The Florence Airport, Peretola, is one of two main airports in the Tuscany region though it is not widely used by popular airlines. The project proposed by Brunelleschi in the 14th century was the largest ever built at the time, and the first major dome built in Europe since the two great domes of Roman times – the Pantheon in Rome, and Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.