PITTI PALACE AND GARDEN BOBOLI, FLORENCE – Two white wings above a beauty sea

In 1457 the palace was built by the Pitti family, by Filippo Brunelleschi, but the original building included only the central part of the building. This huge palace is among the greatest examples of architecture in Florence. In 1549 the building was sold to the Medici, becoming the residence of the Grand Ducal family. Later it was expanded and remodeled (in 1560 Bartolomeo Ammannati designed and built the large, gorgeous courtyard, also adding two wings). Cosimo II de’ Medici had it enlarged and open the forecourt. The ground floor and the first floor is the Museo degli Argenti (which contains the largest collection of precious objects once belonged to the Medici). On the first floor is the Palatine Gallery (with a large collection of paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), and the Royal Apartments (with period furniture dating back to the nineteenth century). The Modern Art Gallery is waiting foryou on the top floor (with a wonderful collection of paintings including Tuscan painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/en/musei/pitti.php?m=palazzopitti

The facade you can admire remained almost unchanged (except for the two wings spanning the square desired by Lorraine). Do not forget that this wonderful building overlooking the famous Boboli Gardens. Of the green box, definitely worth a visit: the Grotta Buontalenti, and the Roman amphitheater (with the Egyptian obelisk in the middle), the Neptune Basin, the Statue of Abundance and the Knight Garden, not to mention the Fountain of Paris Ocean. In the house of the Knight, (detached from the building and is situated in the beautiful garden), it is the Porcelain Museum, while the Palazzina della Meridiana is home to the Galleria del Costume (which counts clothing and fashion artifacts tracing the history of the last 300 years). The Boboli Gardens is the largest monumental green area of Florence, a dream that dates back more than four centuries ago.

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