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  2. Villa I Tatti - Wikipedia

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    Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 photographs.

  3. Belmond Villa San Michele - Wikipedia

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    Villa San Michele, Fiesole. The original building was a monastery, founded in the early years of the 15th century for the Franciscan friars. [1] The land on which it stood had been donated by a Florentine family, the Davanzatis, who also contributed to the monastery's upkeep by gifts of woodlands, further buildings and money.

  4. Pension (lodging) - Wikipedia

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    Literature. Naguib Mahfouz's 1967 novel, Miramar, focuses on the lives of the long-term residents of the eponymous pension in Alexandria in the 1960s.; E. M. Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, opens with the protagonist Lucy Honeychurch and her spinster cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett complaining about the Pensione Bertolini, where they are staying in Florence, Italy.

  5. Hotel Helvetia & Bristol - Wikipedia

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    The palazzo that houses the hotel dates to the late 19th century. [2] Originally created to attract the wealthy aristocrats of Victorian England, the inner-city townhouse hosted artists and European royalty including Igor Stravinsky , Giorgio de Chirico , and members of Danish Royal Family and Dutch monarchy .

  6. Historic Centre of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The northern part of the old town is surrounded by the avenues of Viali di Circonvallazione, a series of large six-lane avenues inspired by Parisian boulevard created when Florence was the capital of Italy. The center of Florence, with its hundreds of business activities is a paradise for shopping and entertainment: elegant boutiques, historic ...

  7. Italian city Florence bans key boxes and tour guide ... - AOL

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    The historic Italian city of Florence is taking steps to cut overtourism, introducing measures including a ban on key boxes used by short-term rental landlords and tour guide loudspeakers, amid ...

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