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Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany and its rich historical, artistic and cultural heritage make it one of the main tourist destinations in Italy and Europe.Founded in the first century A.C. by the Romans, Florence has been through many prosperous and dark periods. The city experienced the battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, it was a Commune and then a "Signoria" under the Medici during the Renaissance. It was part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany first with the Medici and then under the Lorraines during the 18th century, up until it became a part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. Cimabue, Dante Alighieri, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli and Michelangelo are just a few of the famous Tuscan artists who contributed to making Florence such a beautiful and important city in the world.

Medici Riccardi Palace is one the most important monuments in Florence, a prototype of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Medici Riccardi Palace hosts temporary exhibitions and experimental virtual environment for museums and galleries.The palace was designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de' Medici, head of the Medici banking family, and was built between 1445 and 1460. The transition from the rusticated masonry of the ground floor to the more delicately refined stonework of the third floor makes the building seem lighter and taller as the eye moves upward to the massive cornice that caps and clearly defines the building's outline.

The Museum itinerary starts on the ground floor, the fulcrum of which is Michelozzo’s fifteenth-century courtyard, one of the most suggestive sites of Renaissance FlorenceThe true gem of the palazzo is the Chapel of the Magi, reached via the elegant seventeenth-century staircase. The chapel, built and decorated in the fifteenth century, features a harmonious decoration of enchanting beauty. More specifically, the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli, more famous even than the artist himself, constitute one of the most eminent illustrations of Medici Florence.Another important pole of attraction of the museum of Palazzo Medici Riccardi is the magnificent Galleria, created at the end of the seventeenth century on the first floor

Medici Riccardi Palace is the first Renaissance building erected in Florence

Cortile di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Michelozzo’s fifteenth-century courtyard, one of the most suggestive sites of Renaissance Florence

Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and child 1460

Retro

Medici Riccardi Palace Gallery of the famous Florentin people

Medici Riccardi Palace

Perhaps the most important section of the palace is still today the Chapel frescoed in 1459 by Benozzo Gozzoli representing the Procession of the Magi. The frescoes explicitly referred to the train of the Concilium that met in Florence in 1439. As a matter of fact many of the personalities portrayed are wealthy protagonists of the time and members of the Medici family

Benozzo Gozzoli

John VIII Palaiologos.

Lorenzo de Medici as Caspar in Gozzoli's "Procession of the Magi"

The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante

Entrance to Badia Fiorentina

The prominent campanile, completed between 1310 and 1330, is Romanesque at its base and Gothic in its upper stages.

The abbey was founded as a Benedictine

institution in 978 by Willa,

Countess of Tuscany, in

commemoration of her late

husband Hubert. A hospital was founded in the abbey in 1071. In 1307 part of the church was demolished to

punish the monks for non-

payment of taxes. The

church underwent a

Baroque transformation between 1627

and 1631.

Sung vespers at 6pm and mass

at 6:30pm every day. Locals and

tourists alike claim attending their Vespers or Mass to be one

of the most beautiful

experiences in Florence

The Badia Polyptych by Giotto, now at the Uffizi Gallery, was originally located in the church.

Filippino Lippi, Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard (c. 1486)

Cloister of the Oranges

The attached Chiostro degli Aranci (Cloister of the Oranges) contains a fresco cycle (c. 1435–1439) on the life of St Benedict, whom many attribute to the Portuguese painter Giovanni di Consalvo, a generally unknown follower of Fra Angelico

Fresco by Master of the Cloister of the Oranges

Fresco by Master of the Cloister of the Oranges

Sound: Cezar Ouatu - Vivaldi, Ottone (Gelosia, tu già rendi l'alma mia)

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