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In a piazza that is an open-air sculpture gallery, more statuary graces the orator’s platform along the Palazzo Vecchio’s sober façade.
Its 14th-century crenellated Palazzo dei Consoli is one of the grandest civic edifices in all Italy, and from the piazza and the palazzo’s belltower you have a magnificent panorama of the town and surrounding country.
The Carriage Museum (Museo delle Carrozze), in a wing on the far right of the palace, and the Royal Apartments (Appartamenti Monumentali), upstairs, right of the main entrance, show an opulent, truly palatial life that the palazzo’s dour exterior never lets you suspect.
In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).
The Capitoline Museums, in the twin palaces of the Campidoglio (see page 50), have extensive collections of sculpture excavated from ancient Rome, particularly in the Palazzo Nuovo.