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of its architectonic elements, body, crown, tower. The Old
Palace rise from a closed progression of its architectural
elements: the body, the ring and the tower. The cornices,
that delimit the mass in plans, fixing in the crown and the
tower the battlement and sporti attack, order the space, than
unattainable windows from the ground floor and shaped to double
lancet windows, clarify and increase in the following plans.
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The sequence of the empty space, than is emphasized
towards the high, the light and the shadow, that take one's
time doing in the sockets of ashalar fix to the dice an elastic
tension, merges in the deep overhangs of the crown and the
tower for giving to relief, linked up the parts in closed
unit.
The construction was begun in 1296, perhaps from Arnolfo di
Cambio, and once finished the palace, becomes the centre of
the members of the Lordship: Gonfalonieri and Priori.
Inside of the palace we find the Hall of Cinquecento, a work
of impressive architecture for measures (53 x 22 x 18 meters)
carried out from Simone of Pollaiuolo said "the Report"
in 1495 as meeting hall for the five hundred representatives
of the florentine people.
From the decorative point of view the work more interesting
is the Genius of the Victory of Michelangelo, a marble arranged
in the center niche of the right wall. The paintings of the
ceiling and of the walls, explain the conceited art of the
Vasari and the scenes of servile obedience to the Medici are
testimony of the moral expiration of the times.
Old
Palace
Signoria Palace - Phone +39 055 2768465
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Holiday: from 9 to 19
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| Signoria square represents a fundamental
point of the political life of Florence.
On the square they insist from the Palace of Signoria and
the Loggia, from the Merchandise Court.
In the center we find the equestrian statue of Cosimo.
Signoria square represents the more interesting point of
the municipal city; here in fact the secular fight for the
power was carried out and the government decisions matured.
The Palace is raising to pierce the sky with the tips tower,
in a simple architectonic line, created from blocks of stone
sawed with precision and chiseled with crudeness. Characteristics
that render it arrogant and inacessibile and it manifest
the function of fortress of the freedom. The fountain of
the square is a work of the Ammannati. Neptune, the statue
in the center, rudeness detaches in that light to deserve
the nickname of "Biancone".
The Merchandise Court was the center of the large merchants.
The loggia it is an ancient architectonic complex that is
opened on the road between the houses of "consorti"
(persons tied to the same fate) and is used for reunions
in occasion of wedding, celebrations, festivity.
He has therefore a representative function and he demonstrates
with the architectonic shapes and for the works of art that
are exposed, the importance of the consociates.
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Large square of Michelangelo
and Saint Miniato Mount:
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Michelangelo large square was realized in
1869 on design of Giuseppe Poggi, and offers one splendid
panorama of the city. In the center of it, one bronze copy
of the David di Michelangelo and four sepulchre statues of
the Medicee Chapels.
Little over the large square, the Basilica of S. Miniato to
the Mount is found, whose facade, in white and green marble,
is considered one of the beautifulst examples of Romanesque
Florentine. Erected between XI and XIII century, conserve
works of great value like the chapel of the Crucifix of Michelozzo
and the chapel of the Cardinal of the Portugal, both with
decorations of Luca of the Robbia, and the splendid fresco
of Aretino Spinelli that representing the history of Saint
Benedict.
Saint Miniato Church
Via Monte to Croci - Phone +39 055 2342731
Working day: Summer from 8 to 19.30 - Winter from 8 to 12
and from 15 to 18
Holiday: Summer from to 19.30 - Winter from 15 to 18
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Pitti Palace and Boboli
park:
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It was commissioned from Luca Pitti in 1448.
The project, attributed to the Brunelleschi, previewed a building
much smallest of the current one, that was widened when, in
1549, the palace passed to the Medici.
Pitti palace endured numerous widenings and readaptations
in the course of the centuries: it was center of the Lorena
and, to the time of when Florence was Italy capital, of the
Sabauda Court.
Today contain various museums and galleries between which
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important it is the Palatina
Gallery, constituted from the private collections of the Granduchi
with the masterpieces from the XV to XVII the century, between
which works of Tiziano, Giorgione, Raffaello, Rubens.
The other museums are: Modern Arts gallery, Museum of Silver,
Gallery of the Custom, Coachs Museum, Chinas Museum, Collection
Contini Bonacossi,Royal Apartments and Apartment of Aosta
Duchess.
On the hill of Boboli, between Palace Pitti and Belvedere
Fort, is placed one of the beautifulst italian garden, projected
from the Tribolo in 1549 and subsequently from the Ammanati
and from the Buontalenti. It dominates the garden, and city,
a beautifulst Fort of '500, Belvedere Fort, projected from
the Buontalenti for the Granduca Ferdinando I.
Palatina Gallery
Piazza Pitti - Phone +39 055 2388614
Working day: from 8.15 to 18.50
Holiday: from 8.15 to 18.50
Closed il monday - Admittance: € 8,50
Gallery of modern arts
Piazza Pitti - Phone +39 055 2388616
Working day: from 8.15 to 13.50
Holiday: from 8.15 to 13.50 (1)
Closed: first and third monday of month - Admittance: €
5,00 (13)
China museum
Boboli parks- Phone +39 055 2388709
Working day: January February November December 8.15-16.30
Marzo 8.15-17.30 April May September October 8.15-18.30 June
July August 8.15-19.30
Holiday: January February November December 8.15-16.30 Marzo
8.15-17.30 April May September October 8.15-18.30 June July
August 8.15-19.30
Closed: first and last monday of month - Admittance: €
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Famous all over the world for it frescoes
of Masaccio, considers a masterpiece of the rinascimental
painting, is situated inside the duecentesca church of Saint
Maria of the Carmine. It was commissioned to Masolino, that
it began the works in 1424 taking advantage itself from Masaccio
aid. When Masaccio left Florence, the frescoes were finishes
from Philippine Lippi after 1480.
Brancacci chapel
Piazza del Carmine - Phone +39 055 2382195
Working day: from 10 to 17
Holiday: from 13 to 17
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of the church of Ognissanti is located the Last Supper of
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Rossellino, on project of Leon Alberti Batista, on behalf
of Giovanni Rucellai. To the Alberti is attributed also the
loggia. |
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| Filippo Strozzi the Old, commissioned to
Benedict from Maiano, that it began the works in 1489; that
was replaced later from the Cronaca, that realized the cornice
and the courtyard. Strozzi Palace is between the most authentic
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It is the most typical example of rinascimental
civil palace. Cosimo the Old commissioned the project to Michelozzo
in 1444. Inside an elegant courtyard, a small italian garden
and famous the Chapel frescoed from Benozzo Gozzoli in 1459,
representative the Cavalcata of the Magi.
Medici Riccardi Palace - Magi chapel
Via Cavour 3 - Phone +39 055 2760340
Working day: from 9 to 19
Holiday: from 9 to 19
Closed: il wednesday - Admittance: € 4,00 |
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The palace was constructed from the great-granddaughter
of Michelangelo, and from then, numerous descendants works
for collect the works of the artist, like designs, portraits
and juvenile workshave. Buonarroti house has the scope to
collect and to value Michelangelo art, and conserve the Centauri
Fight, the beautifulst Madonna of the Scale, the wooden crocifix
of S. Spirito.
Buonarroti house
Via Ghibellina 70 - Phone +39 055 241752
Working day: from 9.30 to 14
Holiday: from 9.30 to 14
Closed il thuerday - Admittance: € 6,50 |
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Vasariano passageway
and Old Bridge:
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| The Vasariano Passageway, than from the Uffizi
take to Pitti Palace, accommodates a rich self-portrait collection,
that it arrives until today. Constructed from the Vasari in
1565, it passes also over Old Bridge, the most ancient bridge
of the city, with typical shops and the gold laboratories.
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