TOP PLACES
TOP PLACES TO SEE IN FLORENCE Museums, churches and all the attractions that you should not miss in city. Reservations are recommended in some museums, ask your ‘Les Clefs D’Or’ concierge
MUSEUMS 1
UFFIZI GALLERIES
Florence’s museum complex consisting of the Uffizi Gallery, the Vasari Corridor, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the world’s greatest museums, built in 1560 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, and houses works by the greatest Renaissance artists, from Botticelli to Leonardo da Vinci, from Michelangelo to Raphael and Titian. Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6 ph. +39 055 294883 uffizi.it Closed on Monday 2
PALAZZO PITTI
The royal residence of three families: the Medicis, the
Habsburg-Lorraines and the Savoias. Palazzo Pitti is still named after its first owner, the Florentine banker Luca Pitti. It currently houses some of the city’s most important museums: the Palatine Gallery with masterworks by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens, the Imperial and Royal Apartments on the Palazzo’s main floors (now temporarily closed), the Modern Art Gallery featuring works by Macchiaolo painters, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, the Fashion and Costume Museum (now temporarily closed), the Porcelain Museum, the Carriages Museum and the new Museum of Russian Icons. The Palace is completed by the Boboli Garden. Piazza de’ Pitti, 1 ph. +39 055 294883 uffizi.it Closed on Monday 3
Signoria and later enlarged by Vasari as the Medici family’s residence. Among the must-see sixteenth-century rooms are the grand Salone dei Cinquecento, Francesco I’s small secret study, the Hall of the Lilies and the Hall of Geographical Maps. The Palace is crowned by the Tower of Arnolfo. Piazza della Signoria ph. +39 055 2768224 cultura.comune.fi.it
OPERA DEL DUOMO MUSEUM 4
A journey through the places and artists who created the monumental Opera complex, the cradle of the Renaissance, and today one of the world’s most important museums. Its showcases the original works of art that de-
PALAZZO VECCHIO
Designed in 1299 by Arnolfo di Cambio as Palazzo della
Galleria dell’Accademia Palazzo Strozzi
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Uffizi Galleries
