TUSCANY is a region in central Italy . The regional capital is Florence (Firenze).
Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its influence on high culture. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and has been home to many figures influential in the history of art and science, and contains well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace. LTuscany produces wines, including Supertuscans,Chianti, and Brunello di Montalcino. Having a strong linguistic (Italian Language is Florentine language) and cultural identity, it is sometimes considered “a nation within a nation” Tuscany is the core of luxury Business where the most important firms from Italy and France (but not only) are based to conceive and produce their collections.
Tuscany is most popular destination in Italy with Venice ; the main tourist spots are Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Versilia, Maremma and Chianti.
Seven Tuscan localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the historic centre of Florence (1982); the Cathedral square of Pisa (1987); the historical centre of San Gimignano (1990); the historical centre of Siena (1995); the historical centre of Pienza (1996); the Val d’Orcia (2004), and the Medici Villas and Gardens (2013). Tuscany has over 120 protected nature reserves, making Tuscany and its capital Florence popular tourist destinations that attract millions of tourists every year.
Etruscans Romans Medici and Renaissance people made Tuscany and Florence a worlwide known place where to go to Find Beauty in Art, Landscapes and food (Leonardo da Vinci held a food place in Ponte Vecchio when he was living in Florence)
Tuscany has an immense cultural and artistic heritage, expressed in the region’s churches, palaces, art galleries, museums, villages and piazzas
Tuscany has a unique artistic legacy, as well and Florence, (Tuscany havs the largest concentration of Renaissance art and architecture in the world)
Tuscan Heritage is also very remarkable in Science and innovation , Astrolabes (visible into Museum of Science in Florence) have been here invented and Horological mechanical complications cannot exist without them.
Galileo Galilei here invented telescope and many other scientific tools
Antonio Meucci invented telephone in XIX century
In Music field Giacomo Puccini is only the most famous to be remembered
as in Paintings Amedeo Modigliani .
In fashion Pret a Porter born in PITTI Palace in the 50’ and 60’
Prato(Close to Florence) has been and still is one of the most important place where manufacture textiles .
Still now the Tuscan district is the most important place where to design and manufacture leathers goods and their metal accessories.
This is the environment where Lab Firenze grows.