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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence reopens with many renovations, a new entrance hall and 14 new rooms at the first floor with new masterpieces.

This year we celebrate the centenary of the birth of the Gucci brand in Florence, thanks to its founder Guccio Gucci who brought all over the world one of the symbols of Italian style and creativity.

Medici Masters of Florence is a TV series on Netflix about intrigues and tragedies of this powerful family of wealthy Florentine bankers who were the patrons of the most important Renaissance artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Strolling around the center of Florence, the curious and attentive visitors can bump into strange little windows on the ground floor of ancient palaces. They are not only mail boxes or simply architectural design as they may seem, rather useful little doors through which the wine was sold.

The Crimson Red is the background of the rooms dedicated to Caravaggio and the 17th century painting at the Uffizi Gallery

The statue of Liberty in New York was made by the French sculptor Bartholdi that was inspired by a work by Pio Fedi in the Church of Santa Croce. Aren't they identical?

Florence, the city of flowers, beside Art, Fashion and Food traditions, is linked to the history of fragrances.

David: by Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio ... Arriving in Florence it seems that an illustrious citizen known by everyone is the protagonist of this city. But who is the David that everyone talks about? The greatest artists in town have challenged in representing this young hero.

Botticelli's model for Venus was the most beautiful woman in Florence. She was admired by everybody and loved by the two most powerful brothers of her time, Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici, as Marylin Monroe centuries later.