Unveil the Medici’s secrets on a tour through Florence’s palaces and art, exploring their three-century reign and monumental impact.
Unveil the Medici’s secrets on a tour through Florence’s palaces and art, exploring their three-century reign and monumental impact.
- Via Cavour Firenze - Start your journey at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the historic home of the Medici family and a Renaissance architectural gem. Admire the graceful façade by Michelozzo and learn about the Medici’s rise to power with Lorenzo the Magnificent.
- Piazza di San Lorenzo - This is where the city’s first cathedral was rebuilt by…
- Via Cavour Firenze - Start your journey at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the historic home of the Medici family and a Renaissance architectural gem. Admire the graceful façade by Michelozzo and learn about the Medici’s rise to power with Lorenzo the Magnificent.
- Piazza di San Lorenzo - This is where the city’s first cathedral was rebuilt by the Medici for their ceremonies such as weddings, baptisms, and as their final resting place, alongside the nearby Medici Chapels.
- Via del Proconsolo - Walk past the Bargello, originally Florence’s first government palace, which the Medici transformed into a prison where they tortured and executed their adversaries.
- Piazza della Signoria - The center of Florentine governance for centuries, where Grand Duke Cosimo I made it his first residence, embellishing it with an unmatched collection of statues to display his supreme authority.
- Ponte Vecchio - As you cross Florence’s historic bridge, note how the Medici transformed it from the city’s dirtiest area to its most elegant, celebrating their processions over it.
- Pitti - End your tour at the magnificent Palazzo Pitti, the Medici’s final residence. Originally built by their rivals, the Pitti family, as a challenge to their power, the Medici acquired it and turned it into a model of royal palaces.
- High quality audio system to listen to the guide perfectly
- Exclusive Tour Guide services
- Hotel Pick-up in Florence city center to walk with the guide
- High quality audio system to listen to the guide perfectly
- Exclusive Tour Guide services
- Hotel Pick-up in Florence city center to walk with the guide
- Optional tips for the guide, highly appreciated
- Entrance to the sites
- Optional tips for the guide, highly appreciated
- Entrance to the sites
From the magnificent Medici palaces to the opulent art collections, our tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Florence’s most influential rulers. Prepare to be transported back in time to an era of unparalleled wealth, ambition, and artistic achievement as we explore the Medici’s enduring impact on Florence and the world beyond.
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From the magnificent Medici palaces to the opulent art collections, our tour offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Florence’s most influential rulers. Prepare to be transported back in time to an era of unparalleled wealth, ambition, and artistic achievement as we explore the Medici’s enduring impact on Florence and the world beyond.
Join us to reveal the secrets about this family who dominated the Italian and European political scene for three centuries through popes, queens, princes, and grand dukes, discovering Florence and its great monuments by their time.
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