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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.
Our itineraries divide the city’s heart into four quarters: from the Duomo north to Piazza San Marco; from the Piazza della Signoria, its Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Galleries east to Piazza Santa Croce; from the Mercato Nuovo west to Piazza Santa Maria Novella; and the southern “Left Bank” of the Arno River around the Pitti Palace and the Piazzale Michelangelo.
Site of the stoic town hall (Palazzo Vecchio or della Signoria) since 1299, the square bustles in all seasons, not least because it leads to the richest of Italy’s art museums, the Uffizi.
Designed in the late 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo) but with a neo-Gothic façade added in 1863, the Franciscan church of Santa Croce (east of the Uffizi) has an important series of Giotto frescoes.
The Palazzo Bianco (number 11) makes a handsome setting for Genoa’s most important art collection, mostly the work of Genoese painters: Cambiaso, Strozzi, and Magnasco, as well as works by Pontormo and Palma il Vecchio, and the Flemish school — Rubens, Gérard David, and Van Dyck.