The Princes of Florence (2000)

This game involves developing medieval and renaissance cities to attract various professions, which enriches the cities culturally. Each player is given a city grid and reference chart and attempts to gain the most victory points after seven rounds. Scoring victory points can be done in a variety of ways although most will be earned by playing profession cards to generate work points. There are a variety of professions such as astronomers, organists and architects. Each is attracted to a particular combination of building, landscape feature, and social freedom. The more the player can match these preferences then the more work points are generated. If a player satisfies the minimum requirement of work points, which increases each round, then the work can be created and the player can then trade the work points for cash and/or victory points.

This game is #4 in the Alea big box series.

The original Alea/Ravensburger version is for 3-5 players, while the 2006 QWG version is for 2-5.

In the new (2007) version there are also 2 new expansions. The game was released in this new edition in Holland, Belgium. Luxembourg, Germany, France, Poland, Italy and Spain.

Awards

• 2000 Meeples' Choice Award winner.
• 2001 International Gamers Award winner.
• 2007 Nederlandse Spellenprijs winner.
• 2008 Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy), Side Award Best Game Mechanic

Online Play

• BrettspielWelt (real-time)

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