It owns 367. 628 inhabitants (2009), and is the center of a metropolitan area of approximately million and average one of inhabitants. Capital of Italy between 1865 and 1871 during the Italian Unification, in the average age was an important cultural, economic and financial center. It knew his time greater splendor after the restoration of the Great Duchy of Tuscan under the dominion of the Mdici dynasty. Florence is the urban nucleus in which the artistic movement denominated Renaissance was originated in second half of century XIV, and is considered one of the world-wide cradles of the art and the architecture. Its historical center was declared Patrimony of the Humanity in 1982, and in him they emphasize medieval and Renaissance works like the cupola of Santa Maria of the Fiore, the Ponte Vecchio, the Basilica of Santa Cruz, the Palazzo Vecchio and museums like the Uffizi, the Bargell or the Gallery of the Academy, that welcomes in the David de Miguel Angel knows, that and 4 of November of 1966, as a result of torrential rains, the city it more hard underwent riada of its history when the Arno reached 4. 500 ms /s, flooding the historical helmet. In some points as the Piazza I gave Santa Croce the water surpassed the 5 ms of height.

The damages in the historical patrimony (Ponte Vecchio, Duomo, Signoria) were numerous. There was no warning of the authorities, that knew that the flood would take place, except by a call to the jewelers of the Ponte Vecchio. In all the city the maximum level are small plates in the walls indicating that it reached the water. It is very certain when it is indicated, that Florence is a well-known city at world-wide level by its artistic and architectonic patrimony. The extended artistic style more in the city is the Renaissance one, created in the same city in second half of century XIV, although also it counts on an important patrimony of other architectonic and artistic styles.