Robert Langdon has a favorite bookshop in Florence: the Anglo-American bookstore The Paperback Exchange, located in Via delle Oche, a few steps away from Piazza Duomo.
The protagonist of Inferno wants to reach the store to look for copies of The Divine Comedy, but he realizes that it is closed on Mondays, as are several other shops in Florence.
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Florence – Yesterday afternoon, the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred) was full of passionate readers as well as the merely curious: the fascinating subject and the congeniality of Dan Brown gave the audience a really interesting event.
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The wait is over! Today, Wednesday, June 5 2013, Dan Brown presented his Inferno in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred) in Florence.
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In the birthplace of Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, today there is a building rebuilt in 1911 that houses the Casa di Dante, the Dante House Museum.
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Palazzo Vecchio was known throughout the world for being the seat of political power in Florence for about seven centuries.
It used to be the symbol of the Republic of Florence and later of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and it still is the town hall.
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The Vasari Corridor is one of the most mysterious and interesting places in Florence.
It is a 1-km long elevated and enclosed passageway that connects Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, crossing over the River Arno.
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