Are there modern parts of florence?

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Are there modern parts of florence?

Answer 1

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yes there are a lot :

Accademia Gallery (Firenze)

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Archaeological Museum (Firenze)

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Bargello National Museum (Firenze)

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Gallery of Modern Art (Firenze)

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Laurentian Library (Firenze)

The importance of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, with its collection of nearly 11,000 manuscripts, is based mainly on two converging factors, both extraordinary: the specific nature of the Library’s holdings and the character of its building, which was planned and partly realized by...

Museum of San Marco (Firenze)

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Museum of the Medici Chapels (Firenze)

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Palatina Gallery (Firenze)

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Palazzo Pitti (Firenze)

The sloping frontage that forms the Piazza de' Pitti is closed on three sides by the circling wings of the Palace, which the Florentines have always been reluctant to call the Royal Palace because of their innate tendency for understatement, in spite of the fact that the building has hosted all...

State Museum of Florence (Firenze)

The Polo Museale Fiorentino is an institution which administers the largest ensemble of art works in Italy. It includes twenty museums varying in importance from the Uffizi Gallery to the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, from the Accademia Gallery to the Cenacolo of Santa Apollonia. It...

The Uffizi Gallery (Firenze)

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Fennel, Florence

Botanical: Foeniculum dulce

Family: N.O. Umbelliferae

Cultivation

---Synonyms---Finnochio.

---Parts Used---Seeds, herb.

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Finnochio or Florence Fennel is a native of Italy, and bears a general resemblance to Foeniculum vulgare, but is an annual and a much smaller plant, being as a rule little more than a foot high. It is a very thick-set plant, the stem joints are very close together and their bases much swollen. The large, finely-cut leaves are borne on very broad, pale green, or almost whitish stalks, which overlap at their bases somewhat like celery, swelling at maturity to form a sort of head or irregular ball - often as big as a man's head and resembling a tuber. The flowers appear earlier than those of common Fennel, and the number of flowers in the umbel is only six to eight.

---Cultivation---The cultivation is much the same as for common Fennel though it requires richer soil, and owing to the dwarf nature of the plant, the rows and the plants may be placed closer together, the seedlings only 6 to 8 inches apart. They are very thirsty and require watering frequently in dry weather. When the 'tubers' swell and attain the size of an egg, draw the soil slightly around them, half covering them. Cutting may begin about ten days later. The flowerheads should be removed as they appear.

Florence Fennel should be cooked in vegetarian or meat stock and served with either a rich butter sauce or cream dressing. It suggests celery in flavour, but is sweeter, and very pleasantly fragrant. In ordinary times, it can be bought from Italian greengrocers in London. In Italy it is one of the commonest and most popular of vegetables.

It is grown in this country at Hitchin.

Answer 2

Yes, like all Italian cities, Florence is a mixture of old and new. You will find modern and ancient interspersed wherever you go. During World War II most italian cities (including Florence) were bombed pretty badly, these parts were re-built in modern times.

Answer 3

The historic city center is all old.  The exception within the walls is Santa Maria Novella Station constucted in 1932.  Florence also escaped heavy bombings duing WW-II that destroyed so many other cities.  All the  bridges were destroyed but not the Ponte Vecchio which survived the war intact.

Answer 4

depends on what you consider modern.

after italy was united, in the second half of the 1800s, the capital was moved from turin to florence for some years, until in 1877 rome was annexed and became the capital.

when they moved all the administrative offices to florence, many buildings were demolished and rebuilt (in the style of the time, but also in an "ancient looking style") in order to make streets larger, straighter and easier for the police to control them. so florence has very few districts that have really the typical, ancient, medieval italian characters, such as very narrow and crooked streets.

so, if compared to other italian cities, florence is very modern. consider that also an ancient church like santa maria novella had its facade finished only in the beginning of the 1900s (but the rest had been built many centuries before).

a part from this, like in every italian city, there is a more modern part that was built to host the growing population of the last century, especially after world war 2.

Answer 5

Florence is exciting. Lots of good shopping there. The old and the new co-mingle. It is a very comfortable town. It has a very safe feeling there. Really nice people.

Answer 6

AROUND THE OLD PARTS

Answer 7

No, unless you go to the outskirts of town.  and when your looking at signs they will say firenze, it florence in italian