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Cross the Ponte Vecchio to the sprawling Pitti Palace (Palazzo Pitti), its dauntingly heavy and graceless façade belying the ornate and colorful interior.
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.
Its seven museums and galleries (following varying and erratic schedules with the exception of the largest and most reliable, the Pitti Gallery) take you into the rich world of the Medici, much as they left it.
The Medici family lived here until moving to the Palazzo Vecchio and eventually the Palazzo Pitti.
The Pitti’s next-most visited gallery, the Silverware Museum (Museo degli Argenti), occupies 16 sumptuously decorated rooms to offset the Medici family’s invaluable treasures — gold, silver, jewels, beautiful 16th- and 17th-century amber and ivory, crystal, porcelain, and Baroque furniture.