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Day 6 - 13th July 2019.

  • Day 6  - 13th July 2019.

    Šesti dan tečaja su bile predviđene kulturne aktivnosti i upoznavanje Firence i Toskane.

                                                

    Preuzeto s Wikipedije:

    Firenca (talijanski: Firenze, latinski: Florentia) je glavni grad pokrajine Toskana u Italiji.

    Grad leži na rijeci Arno i najpoznatiji je po svojoj srednjovjekovnoj povijesti grada-države Firence, u vrijeme kada je bila središte trgovine i financija te jedan od najbogatijih gradova u Europi, a posebice kao kolijevka talijanske renesanse, o čemu svjedoče brojni gradski spomenici. Godine 1982., UNESCO je uvrstio stari povijesni centar na popis svjetske baštine. Svojom arhitekturom, ali i muzejima (Pitti, Uffizi), vrtovima, obrazovanjem, glazbom, kuhinjom, modom i dr., Firenca svake godine privlači oko milijun turista.

    Zbog svoje kulturne važnosti, Firencu nazivaju "talijanska Atena". U njoj su živjele mnoge poznate ličnosti kao što su: Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Donatello, obitelji Medici, Botticelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei i drugi.

          

        

                         

                                                                                

    Preuzeto s Wikipedije:

    San Gimignano je mali utvrđeni srednjovjekovni grad na brdu u pokrajini Siena (Toskana, središnja Italija). Najslavniji je po svojoj srednjovjekovnoj arhitekturi, osobito po svojim tornjevima, koji se mogu vidjeti s nekoliko kilometara udaljenosti. Gradić je poznat i po svom bijelom vinu, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, koje se dobiva samo od loze koja raste u okolici.

                         

                                                                                 

                                                        

    Preuzeto s Wikipedije:

    Siena je grad i sjedište istoimene provincije u talijanskoj regiji Toskani (tal. Toscana) u središnjoj Italiji. To je grad neobično bogate kulturne prošlosti, zbog tog je pod zaštitom UNESCO-a, kao svjetska baština čovječanstva.

      

                                                                                 

                                                

    The sixth day of the course included cultural activities and exploring Florence and Tuscany.

    Excerpt from Wikipedia:

    Florence (/ˈflɒrəns/ FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] (listen))[a] is a city in central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.

    Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by main academics the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.

    The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

     

    San Gimignano (Italian pronunciation: [san dʒimiɲˈɲaːno]) is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, which, with its hilltop setting and encircling walls, form "an unforgettable skyline". Within the walls, the well-preserved buildings include notable examples of both Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with outstanding examples of secular buildings as well as churches. The Palazzo Comunale, the Collegiate Church and Church of Sant' Agostino contain frescos, including cycles dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The "Historic Centre of San Gimignano" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town also is known for saffron, the Golden Ham, and its white wine, Vernaccia di San Gimignano, produced from the ancient variety of Vernaccia grape which is grown on the sandstone hillsides of the area.

    Siena (/siˈɛnə/ see-EN-ə, Italian: [ˈsjɛːna] (listen); in English sometimes spelled Sienna; Latin: Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.

    The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.[4] It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008.[5] Siena is famous for its cuisine, art, museums, medieval cityscape and the Palio, a horse race held twice a year.