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The General Council Hall (Sala del Consiglio Generale) is dominated by the works of Donatello: his vigorous St. George (1416), intended for the Orsanmichele (see page 81); his important David, naked and restless in bronze (1450); and the stone Marzocco lion, the town’s symbol, from the Palazzo Vecchio.
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.
The Medici family lived here until moving to the Palazzo Vecchio and eventually the Palazzo Pitti.
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.
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.