The history of
Tuscany is very old and there are monuments from both the Etruscan and Roman periods of greatness. But much of
Tuscany's history is centred on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which is also richly represented in this beautiful region.
Figures such as Dante, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli were all Tuscan and are people who have not only been significant for the history of
Tuscany but also for the whole world.
The history of the region bears witness to many brutal internal power struggles in various towns and Dante's divine comedy shows dramatically some of these quarrels or rather the fates that met the villains and heroes.
Tuscany has not had as many foreign rulers as many of the other Italian regions, but here you find coherent and exciting historical evidence, the like of which few other places in the world can boast.
