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Where the palazzo joins the basilica’s southernmost flank is the Porta della Carta (Gate of the Paper, where the doge posted his decrees and scribes gathered).
The 15th-century Palazzo da Schio (number 147) is also known as Ca’d’Oro, after the famous Venetian Gothic palace.
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.
After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.
In a piazza that is an open-air sculpture gallery, more statuary graces the orator’s platform along the Palazzo Vecchio’s sober façade.