The Piazzale Michelangelo to Florence represents the most famous point than observation of the city, reproduced panorama in most postcards and obliged goal of the tourists in visit to the city. Hill hardly to south of the historical center was realized from the 1865 on design of the architect Giuseppe Poggi, to completion the jobs of requalification of the left river of the Arno. The public square, dedicated to the great artist Michelangelo, introduces the copies of some its famous works conserved in Florence: the David and the four allegorie of the Nails head Medicee di San Lorenzo. These copies are realized in bronze, while it originates them to it are all in marble white man. The monument was carried on from nine seems of buoi the 25 june 1873. The panorama embraces the heart of Florence, from the Forte Belvedere to Santa Croce passing for lungarni and the bridges of Florence in sequence, above all the Ponte Vecchio; the Bargello, the Palazzo Vecchio, and the octagonal bell tower of the Fiorentina Abbey, without to forget opposite hills to north about the city with to the center Fiesole and Settignano.
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