Florence

Also known as Firenze, Florence, Italy, Florence, Tuscany, Florence Municipality

Florence () is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants It is also the capital of the eponymous metropolitan province, which counts 989,460 inhabitants.

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Florence is the largest city in Tuscany, a region in Italy, with about 362,000 residents living within the city itself. It serves as the capital of both the Tuscany region and its surrounding metropolitan province, which includes nearly a million people in total.

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Key facts

Italian comune.name: Florence
Italian comune.official_name: Comune di Firenze
Italian comune.image_shield: FlorenceCoA.svg
Italian comune.mapframe: no
Italian comune.mapframe wikidata: no
Italian comune.region: Tuscany
Italian comune.metropolitan_city: Florence (FI)
Italian comune.frazioni: Baronta, Callai, Galluzzo, Cascine del Riccio, Croce di Via, La Lastra, Mantignano, Ugnano, Parigi, Piazza Calda, Pontignale, San Michele a Monteripaldi, Settignano
Italian comune.mayor: Sara Funaro
Italian comune.mayor_party: PD
Italian comune.elevation_m: 50
Italian comune.area_total_km2: 102.32
Italian comune.population_as_of: 2025
Italian comune.population_total: 362353
Italian comune.population_demonyms: (m.), (f.)
Italian comune.istat: 048017
Italian comune.saint: John the Baptist
Italian comune.day: 24 June

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: Italian city-state
Official name: Firenze
Demonym: Firenčanka
Award: European Capital of Culture
Country: Kingdom of Sardinia
Located in: Metropolitan City of Florence
Continent: Europe
Official language: Italian
Population: 253565
Area: 102.32
Elevation: 50
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Arno
Head of government: Sara Funaro
Capital of: Signoria of Florence
Shares border with: Sesto Fiorentino
Official website: en.comune.fi.it
Image: Panoramica Firenze.jpg
Dialing code: 055
Licence plate code: FI
Patron saint: John the Baptist
Significant event: 1966 flood of the Arno

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Commons category: Florence
twinned administrative body: Daejeon
postal code: 50121–50145
topic's main category: Category:Florence
Commons gallery: Firenze
category for people born here: Category:Births in Florence
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Florence
category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Florence
category of associated people: Category:People from Florence
native label: Firenze
category for people buried here: Category:Burials in Florence
nickname: Florence
P8168: 890s
P11012: February 19
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
social media followers: 105847
present in work: Civilization V
member of: League of Historical Cities
P13311: 1341
number of viewers/listeners: 356578

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Encyclopedic overview

55 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Roman origins
Early Middle Ages
Second millennium
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Rise of the Medici
Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medici popes
18th and 19th centuries
20th century
Geography
Climate
Demographics
Economy
Industry, commerce and services
Tourism
Food and wine production
Government
Culture
Art
Language
Literature
Music
Cinema
Video games
Other media
Cuisine
Research activity
Science and discovery
Fashion
Historical evocations
''Scoppio del Carro''
''Calcio Storico''
Main sights
Monuments, museums and religious buildings
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Squares, streets and parks
Sport
Transportation
Cars
Buses
Trams
Florence public transport statistics
Airport
Railway station
Education
Notable residents
International relations
Twin towns – sister cities
Other partnerships
See also
Notes
References
Sources
External links

Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.

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