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Florence, Italy
6 places worth your time in Florence, with what each is actually like and when to go.
Botticelli, Leonardo, Titian and Caravaggio in the Medici's own administrative building.
The largest masonry dome ever built, raised without centring, with 463 steps to the lantern.
Michelangelo's David, plus the unfinished Prisoners that show how he worked.
The only bridge the retreating Germans spared in 1944, lined with goldsmiths since the Medici banished the butchers.
Across the river — workshops, Santo Spirito and Palazzo Pitti, with a fraction of the crowds.
The postcard view over the city, best walked up to through the Rose Garden.
