Piazza della Signoria

Piazza della Signoria (the place of the Seigniory) is one of the great places of Florence, in Tuscany (Italy) which dates from in its current form (in L).

Excavations put at the day of the important traces of Roman and medieval dwellings.

It is, since its creation, a meeting room of Florentins and was the witness as much popular festivities ( Calcio storico ), sumptuous festivals, revolutions and torments (Savonarole there was tortured and burned in 1498), by its architectural framework bordered of prestigious monuments dating from the Renaissance. It is a civic place, independent of the episcopal place.

Monuments bordering the place

the Palazzo Vecchio,
the Loggia dei Lanzi and its three opened arcades, museum of sculpures in the open air, of which the Persée of Cellini
the entry towards the gallery of the Offices (Uffizi), and its interior court,
Palazzo della Mercanzia (palate of the bankruptcy court),
Palazzo Uguccioni,
Palazzo Fenzi,
Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, of Landi, in a style Néorenaissance in 1871,
Until 2001, the Museum of Modern art (Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Gino Severini, Giacomo Manzu, Salvatore, Rosai, Renato Guttuso), transferred since to the Palate Pitti and become the modern Art gallery.

Sculptures present on the place

the fountain of Neptune by Bartolomeo Ammannati,
marble a counterpart of the David of Michel-Angel,
Hercules and Cacus of Baccio Bandinelli,
In the center of the place, the equestrian statue of Cosme I {{er}}, a bronze of Giambologna (1594),

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