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The outstanding cultural and artistic heritage of the Renaissance can still be seen today in many of the great cities of the period, including Florence and Venice in Italy, Bruges in Belgium and Toledo in Spain.
Thus art and architecture were developed mainly in Florence, and this led Florence to be the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. During the late Italian Renaissance, the Republic of Venice reigned as one of the wealthiest and most powerful cities in Italy, largely to an extent to Europe. Venice was successful because the leaders created a powerful navy, which enabled Venice to gain some part of control of the trade routes of the Mediterranean.