Although this was my second time in Florence, my previous visit was very brief. The city needs no introduction.

While very different from its ultramontane contemporaries, Florence Cathedral is largely a gothic structure, begun by Arnolfo Di Cambio in 1296. The bell tower was built by Giotto between 1334 and 1359, while the dome was added by Brunelleschi in 1436. The façade was blank for several hundred years (like Bologna's San Petronio and other Italian churches) until completed by Emilio De Fabris in 1887.
San Lorenzo is one of the oldest churches in the city yet, in comparison to the three other major churches, the extant building is a pure work of the renaissance. The Medici chapels contain the tombs of many members of the Medici banking family who ruled Florence for several hundred years (plus other parts of Italy through the papacy and France through Catherine De Medici).
Santa Croce is something of a pantheon of the Florentine Republic, if not Italy as a whole. It was begun in 1294, although the façade was not completed until 1863.
Santa Maria Novella was begun in 1276, with the façade was completed by Alberti in 1420. Like Santa Croce, it houses significant fresco work.

Perugia is a medieval hilltop town in Umbria.

I also passed through Camerino, Visso and Caldarola. Soon after these photos were taken, Camerino and Visso were hit by a series of powerful earthquakes, causing extensive damage that is still being repaired years later.