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10 Good Reasons to Visit Tuscany There are so many other things Tuscany region can offer. In fact, seven localities are designated UNESCO World Heritage sites: Florence, Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, Pienza, the Val d’Orcia, and Medici Villas and Gardens. In this article, we want to show you at least 10 good reasons to visit and experience Tuscany. 1. Admire the masterpieces of Renaissance art in Florence Florence preserves an exceptional art heritage, testimony to its centuries-old civilization. In Florence lived Cimabue and Giotto, fathers of Italian painting; Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renovators of architecture and sculpture, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, initiators of the Renaissance and Leonardo and Michelangelo, universal geniuses. Their works are collected in the many museums of the city: the Uffizi, the most selected art gallery in the world; the Palatine Gallery, with the paintings of the "golden ages"; the Bargello, with Renaissance sculptures; the San Marco Museum, with the works of Angelico; the Academy; the Medici Chapels and the Casa Buonarroti, with Michelangelo's sculptures; the Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini Museums; the Modern Art Gallery, the Museum of the Opera del Duomo, the Silver and the Hard Stones. Important monuments mark the stages of the Florentine artistic civilization: the Baptistery with its mosaics, the Duomo with its sculptures, the medieval churches with the cycles of frescoes, the public and private palaces (Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati), the monasteries and cloisters, the convents and cenacles, the Charterhouse. visit tuscany Related links: • Tours from Florence • Florence: The Historic Center from the Duomo to the Ponte Vecchio • Florence and Uffizi or Academy (David) Private Tour • Private Chianti and Supertuscan Wine Tour with Light Lunch from Florence • Where to sleep in Florence (a selection of the best) 2. Discover the golden beaches