Travel Florence City A Must visited place in Italy

If you are planning to go for the tour, Florence city is the best choice ever. Florence city is situated in the central Italy, and capital of the Tuscany. There are 360,000 inhabitants in this city. This city is famous all over the world for its world heritage places, monuments, palaces, churches. It has become renowned for great cuisine, high fashion trends (leather and silk goods), and beautiful parks and of course friendly people. You will get different and splendor experience here in Florence Italy. This place is surrounded with beautiful hills that give splendor sceneries to the visitors. This is a home of many world class figures such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonaroti.

The transportation system of this city is very active and you can easily reach to the Florence city. There is a place "Old Bridge" which is oldest bridge of Florence city. This bridge connects Florence center city to the Oltrarno District. Another great place to shop is Via Tornabuoni. Florence city was listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1982. Here, you will get multiple fashion giants such as Gucci, Versace, Armani. You will also get world class boutiques to shop your favorite thing.

Now, let's discuss about the delicious dishes of the firenze italy. There are many famous restaurants which serves delicious food and desserts to the traveler and visitors. You will get receive tasty pasta dishes and gelati. Firenze Italia is also the best place to have wine with your friends and loved ones. Florence city offers world class wines that give you ever best taste. There are many things to do in this city all around the year. The adventurer traveler can have an experience of climbing up Duomo to enjoy skyline. One more thing here is to enjoy Scoppio Del Carro.

In summary, this city has all the things you are searching for in Italian vacation: great people, great art, great infrastructure, great food, and eye catching sceneries. Here, every part of this city is equipped with love and affection which will attract you definitely. You will be glad to have a visit of Firenze Italy.

  

Piazza della signoria 

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

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Discover Ghent In Belgium For Europe Travel Tours

Ghent, Belgium is a friendly university town that is full of ancient buildings and history. If Bruges is a city filled with tourists looking for a time warp, Ghent is a city full of students and locals just living life... Like Bruges it started as a port, but unlike Bruges, it still is an important port. It's a city of flowers with a flourishing flower export trade.

It has museums and ancient architecture, but it's a modern city. True, the city center is a pedestrian area that is like a museum to early Flemish architecture... and a testament to the city's medieval might, but it's surrounded by a real life city. The tourist brochures say it has more historic sites than Antwerp and is more down-to-earth "real" than Bruges. While I love Bruges, I think I agree with them.

It's not high on a lot of tourists lists, but it deserves to be. Though I admit, the only reason we went to Ghent in the first place was because we had hosted a student from the university one summer in the U.S.

As a tourist, it's the old city center you want to visit. You'll find a wealth of history to explore within the outline of the old city walls. You'll see impressive Gothic sites, such as dramatic St. Bavos's Cathedral and the Castle of the Counts. The city's medieval core is cradled within a loop of the River Leie, which surrounds the old town like a moat.

It's a big city... Belgium's fourth largest, but you'll only be dealing with the center. The historical center is divided into "areas". To find your way around on the tourists maps you need to become familiar with these areas.... don't worry, there's no quiz and it's not hard. The historical city center is in the area called Toren-site. To the north is Patershol, which contains a lot of the best restaurants. To the south is the Kunstenkwartier, where most of the universities' 50,000 students congregate.

There are numerous waterways passing through the city center. The city started as a settlement on the Scheldt and Lys (Leie) Rivers. But you don't need to know all the rivers and canals.... just know that all this water makes the city pretty.

Castle of the Counts is an imposing fortress type castle in the heart of the city The Gravensteen area or "Gravensteen-site". This imposing castle was RE-built in 1180 (and then restored in the 19th century). It overlooks the city from it\'s battlements high up on the keep and you get a great panoramic view of the city from the tower. There is an authentic medieval district in the shadow of the Castle ... It is still partially surrounded by a medieval moat.

The area called Toren-site is the historical heart of the city. This is where you'll find Saint Bavo Cathedral with the Ghent Altarpiece - The Mystic Lamb by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. This famous multi-section altarpiece was completed in 1432, and is worth a look whether you're an art lover or not.

Walk over St. Michael's Bridge, also in the heart of town... in the Graslei-site. The Graslei is one of the most scenic places in Ghent's old city center. From the bridge, you'll have a wonderful view of the skyline of Ghent with the three impressive towers of St Nicholas' Church, the Belfry with its bell tower, and Saint Bavo Cathedral.

If all of these areas make the city sound spread out... it's not; at least not the historical center. You won't get lost in Ghent... pedestrian signposts are everywhere. So stop and explore this historic Dutch city; you'll be glad you did.


The Rabot Gate, Ghent, Belgium

Ghent's Het Gravensteen Castle

the Castle of the Counts

St. Bavos's Cathedral

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