Florence, Alabama AL Hotels/Motels/Lodging

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Florence city is the seat of Lauderdale County which is situated in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Alabama.

According to the 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the city's population was 36,480.

Florence is the largest and principal city of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as "The Shoals" (which includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia metropolitan areas and Colbert and Lauderdale counties). It is considered the primary economic hub of northwestern Alabama.

Florence was surveyed for the Cypress Land Company in 1818 by Italian surveyor Ferdinand Sannoner whom named it for his favorite city, Tuscany's famous capital, Florence - which also had a prominent river, the Arno, and was incorporated in 1826.

Florence is renown for its annual tourism events, including W.C. Handy Music Festival in the summer, and the Renaissance Faire in the autumn. Florentine landmarks include the Rosenbaum House, the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home located in the Southeast.

The type of municipal government is mayor-council.

Florence's McFarland Park is a resting point for riders in the annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride which terminates in nearby Waterloo. The ride commemorates the final point at which area Cherokee Native Americans were shipped off to Oklahoma and the mid west by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is the center for numerous cultural activities, exhibits and events, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and provides administrative offices for Florence's six museums.

Florence also has a Children's Museum.

Florence is home to one of the oldest Disc Golf courses in the State. It is at Veterans Park, and was established in 1983.

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