| 1 | Pisa is to the west (of Florence). | |
| 2 | I lived for a while in Florence. | |
| 3 | Milan at the time was as big as Florence. | |
| 4 | To this day, no building in Florence may rise above the dome. | |
| 5 | The rubble was then dumped in a municipal landfill site on the outskirts of Florence. |