Pitti palate

The palate Pitti , of 32.000 m ², is today more the large palace Florentin. It was created and completed over one five centuries period in the district of the Oltrarno. Its frontage is made up of blocks which give him a monumental and massive general pace named " embossing rustique" composed of strong will pietra, of the stones coming from the careers of the hill of Boboli, hill of which one suspects the presence by the Pitti Piazza , sloping place released in front of the palate, very appreciated of Florentins and the tourists.

The Place

The Pitti piazza was increased later on in 1837, by the demolition of some palates on the sides, like the Guidetti Palate, which made it possible to release the Guicciardini Palate in the angle.

Two plates recall that the astronomer Paolo Toscanelli lived there with N°18 and Fedor Dostoïevski, which wrote there to its novel the Idiot of 1868 to 1869, in N°2.

The Palate

It is Filippo Brunelleschi, towards 1440 which imagined this palate for the merchant Lucca Pitti. Acquired by Cosme I {{er}} of Médicis in 1548, it was increased by Bartolomeo Ammannati (which created the splendid court), Giulio and Alfonso Parigi (which gave to the frontage of the palate its current dimensions), the architects Giuseppe Ruggeri, Gaspare Maria Paoletti and Pasquale Poccianti, who added the two side wings which embrace the place (called Rondò ) as well as Palazzina della Meridiana.

Residence of Médicis, it is connected to the Offices and the Palazzo Vecchio since 1564 by the Corridor of Vasari, in their avoiding the dangers of the street and the passage of the Arno.

Museums

The Pitti palate shelters several museums concerning, inter alia, art and the history. Twenty-five rooms of the Palatine Gallery ( Galleria Palatina ) sheltering the collections of works of art gathered by the family Médicis and the Lorraine dynasty.

One will also find there the modern Art gallery of Florence moved since the Piazza della Signoria.

This palate belongs to the tourist tour of Florence with the Jardin of Boboli which is adjacent for him and supplements it by its alleys of sculptures and its caves.

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