Quick: Think of the phrase "Florence, Italy ... If you took any art history class, this famous church likely came up; it's still the largest masonry vault dome in the world, nearly six centuries ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The Church of San Lorenzo is where the famous Medici Chapel is located ... and embellished as others built throughout Florence in later centuries. The church is said ...

Famous as the repository of Florence’s most important collection ... theatre and dance. The Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella dates from 1246, its stupendous swirling marble façade ...

Although burial in Westminster Abbey was offered to the family of Florence Nightingale, famous nurse and reformer, it was declined, due to provisions in her will, and she is buried at Wellow in ...