Palazzo
Medici-Riccardi, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti
Program
Leave hotel at 9.00 with bus and guide. Return at 1300.
The Medici-Ricardi palace, constructed in 1444 by Michelozzo for Cosimo the Elder, was the seat of Lorenzo the Magnificent and Cosimo the 1st, and is the first example of the Florentine Renaissance palace.
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Palazzo Vecchio, one of the most important monuments of civil architecture, was erected at the begining of the XIV century and enlarged at in the 1500s by Buontalenti and Vasari. For ten years it served as seat of Cosimo the 1st who, in 1549 left it for the most sumptuous of Florentine palaces: The Pitti Palace
Palazzo Vecchio
The Pitti Palace, final residence of The Medici, symbol of the last years of their power
Palazzo Pitti