Florence accommodation HOTEL COLOMBA

In the second half of the XX sec. the town considerably expanded up to start a true and real metropolitan area, that, under an administrative point of view, is part of the province of Florence accommodation and under a town planning point of view, Florence-Prato-Pistoia underground area leaves of the widest. Is a kind of conurbazione, outlined she since the years sixty and Seventy Of Nine a hundred afterwards to a strong expansion, especially residential, some principal cores along the pedemontana line. This so-called big « Florence » is constituted besides from the common chief town, from the councils of his around which gravitare on it for commercial reasons, of work and study: is a total surface of 543 km2, with a demographic load of beyond 660.000 living. Florence is the organizer pole of this area and at the time itself the center which moved the expansion of the whole metropolitan area.
Economy
The cheap profile presents a remarkable eclecticism below, developing cultural and productive functions turned not only to local ambit but also to the regional and national one. The industrial activities show a high diversification and, how much to dimensions, shes articulate in little and middle units. Among the industrial sectors absorb a greater number of experts the mechanical complexes, of the clothing, the clothing of the furnishing, -pharmaceutical chemist, -publishing printer, of the wood, of the skins and the leather. Much is still active the handicrafts, blossomming in the sectors of the clothing, of the straw, of the soprammobili, of the leather goods shops. In the commercial field the Tuscan chief town arranges retail sale of a considerable net both of wholesale units and points, let alone of several intermediation activities. A role importing in the promotion of the commercial activities is turn from the fair demonstrations, which take place in Florence with regularity, in particular the ones of the ready fashion, which has for background the rooms of Pitti palace or the greater town hotels. The town is seat of the stock exchange, of the university, of the European University Institute, of other foreign universities and of vescovile curia. The turist movement is a lot of intense, supported by an efficient receptive equipment and coupons road links. In the flood of November 4th, 1966 Florence undergoed very serious damages, with huge losses for the artistic and cultural property.This finish he introduced the weaving to high liccio, considered superior in France, and renewing the cardboards, which however went back to the previous forms was necessary; the most original series is that of the hours, still preserved in rent, at Old Palace, as besides almost all the Fiorentino production. In seven a hundred Frenches' way gave the step to a renewal set up by the g Italians. B. Finish, to. Bronchi, g. Pieri; contributed there the very able arazziere Leonardo Bernini (helped from 1717 to 1731 by Vittorio Demignot), author among the other of the four parts of the world on drawings of Sacristans Giovanni and Gerolamo Popes, and Proserpina Rat on Giovanni Grisoni drawing. The arazzeria was closed in 1737 when the doctors' house was extinguished.