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  2. Time in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy alternates between Central European Time (Italian: Tempo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (Italian: Orario Estivo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+02:00), because it follows the European Summer Time annual Daylight saving time (Italian: ora legale) procedure.

  3. Florence - Wikipedia

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    During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. [8] Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. [9] From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.

  4. Date and time notation in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Date and time notation in Italy records the date using the day–month–year format (7 dicembre 2024 or 7/12/2024). The time is written using the 24-hour clock (19:55); in spoken language and informal contexts the 12-hour clock is more commonly adopted, but without using "a.m." or "p.m." suffixes (7:55).

  5. Historic Centre of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The historic centre of Florence is part of quartiere 1 of the Italian city of Florence. This quarter was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. [1] [2] Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  6. History of Florence - Wikipedia

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    An individual of highly unusual insight into political conditions of this time was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimization of political expediency and even evil. Machiavelli was tortured and exiled from Florence by the Medici family in 1513, due to ...

  7. Two dead and nine injured after explosion at fuel depot in ...

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    Pictures shared on social media showed a plume of smoke rising from the site of the explosion in Calenzano, a town 18 miles from Florence, Italy on Monday morning. Local media reported that the ...

  8. Metropolitan City of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan City of Florence (Italian: città metropolitana di Firenze) is an administrative division called metropolitan city in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Florence. It replaced the province of Florence. It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/ ...

  9. Timeline of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The earliest timeline of Florence, the Annales florentini , was created in the 12th century. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.