Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany in Italy.
Florence was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. Politically, economically, and culturally it was the most important city in Europe for around 250 years; from some time before 1300 until the early 1500s.
Florentines reinvented money in the form of the gold florin. This currency was the engine that drove Europe out of the "Dark Ages".
Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio pioneered the use of the vernacular, the use of a language other than Latin. In their case, Tuscan, which, because of them, became Italian.
Florentines were the driving force behind the Age of Discovery. Florentine bankers financed Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese explorers who pioneered the route around Africa to India and the Far East.
Gallileo and other scientists pioneered the study of optics, ballistics, astronomy, anatomy, and so on. Machiavelli, and many others laid the groundwork for our understanding of political science.
Opera was invented in Florence.
Then there are brilliant, revolutionary masterpieces by the likes of Michelangelo; David, perhaps the most well-known work of art anywhere stands in Florence.
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