The City of Lilies – Florence is one of the most beautiful cities of the world. Located in the central Italy on the Arno River, at the foot of the Apennines, east of Pisa, the heart of Tuscany – Florence – is the capital city of Tuscany, the region in the northwest Italy surrounded by Apennines, the Ligurian Sea, and Tyrrhenian Sea.

Florence was the center of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th century to the 16th century, and produced various artists and intellectuals like Boccaccio, Botticelli, Dante, Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Niccolò Machiavelli etc. flourished in the city.