The best hotels in Florence make it easy to take in historic architecture, museums and galleries. Here's where to stay in ...

A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time in history ... for all the courts of modern Europe.” ...

Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing ... But she also found time to create graphs to illustrate the terrible conditions of that field hospital to members of British Parliament.

Scherrikar Bell: … even though at the time nursing wasn't seen ... either way Florence Nightingale is one of the biggest names in modern nursing. In this short film we learn about what motivated ...

The best time to visit Florence is between May and September when warm weather ushers in art festivals, open-air dining and the kind of Italian sunshine that inspired the Renaissance painters.

Dario Garofalo for The New York Times San Miniato was a martyr saint who was tortured and ultimately beheaded by the Romans in Florence. He is said to have picked up his head and traveled across ...