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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 Ponte Vecchio, intact since 1345, was Florence’s first, and for centuries only, bridge.
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.