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Gallery
 Florence
invites you to view her tremendous repertoire
of museums in an exploration that covers
the entire gamut from the fascinating
to the fabulous, from the ancient to the
modern and from the exciting to the exotic.
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Archaeological
Museum
 Famous
for the bronze Greek statue known as the
Idolino, the Archaeological Museum ins
housed in the Palazzo della Crocetta,
which was built for the grand duchess
MariaMadalena of Austria in 1620, probably
by Giulio Parigi. »
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Bargello
Museum
 Can
you imagine a prison being converted into
one of the most fascinating museums in
Florence? Well here’s a fantastic
surprise for you…»
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Boboli
Gardens
 The
Boboli Gardens has seen many powerful
Italian families. It was first owned by
the Pitti family. Later it passed on to
the Medicis, followed by the Hapsburg-Lorraine
family. Each of the owners extended it
with great care and commissioned only
the best artists to work on it.
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Cenacolo
di Andrea del Sarto
 The
Cenacolo dates to the early 16th century
when it was the refectory of the Vallombrosan
abbey of San Salvi. It was frescoed by
Andrea del Sarto between 1511 and 1527,
and was used by the enclosed nuns of Beata
Umiltà until the early 19th century. »
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Davanzati
Museum
 Housed
in the palace of the same name the Davanzati
Museum is one of the few surviving examples
of the typical Florentine 14th-century
home and is halfway between a medieval
tower and a Renaissance palace. »
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Medici
Chapels
 The
Medici Chapels. A vast complex of chapels
of great historical and architectural
interest. The large crypt, which holds
the tombs of the Medici family, was designed
Buontalenti. »
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Museo
Dell'opifico delle pietre dure
 The
museum was founded in 1588 by The Grand
Duke Ferdinando I, who established a workshop
to produce the rare or precious stones
for the decoration of the Chapel of Princes.
The current collection,
includes works in pietra dura and polychrome
marbles, works in scagliola (imitation
marble), paintings on stone, oil paintings
and work tools. »
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Palatine
Gallery
 The
most important part of the Palatine Gallery
is housed in the six front rooms and back
rooms of the Pitti Palace. These rooms
were used from the late 18th century onwards
for the exhibition of the most important
paintings (then around 500 in number)
of the Pitti Palace, most of which originated
from the Medici family collections. »
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San
Marco Museum
 The
San Marco Museum occupies the oldest part
of a Dominican monastery rebuilt by Michelozzo
from 1436 to 1446 by appointment of Cosimo
de' Medici the Elder. The building is
a enormous complex with all the sobriety
and elegance typical of Florentine Renaissance
architecture. » more
Silver Museum
 The
Silver Museum is housed in magnificently
frescoed rooms formerly the summer apartments
of the grand dukes in the Pitti Palace.
The first room, on the ground floor, has
a frescoed vault by Angelo Michele Colonna
depicting Jupiter descending from Olympus
to consign the emblems of power to the
Medicis. »
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The
Gallery of Modern Art and the Costume
Gallery
 The
Gallery of Modern Art is housed on the
top floor of the Pitti Palace, with a
splendid view of the hill and Boboli Gardens.
It holds over two thousand works providing
an almost complete panorama of Tuscan
painting from the 18th to 20th century.
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Uffizi Gallery
 The
Uffizi Gallery, one of the world's finest
museums. It traces its origins to 1560
when Cosimo I de' Medici commissioned
Giorgio Vasari to plan a large palace
with two wings, to house the Florentine
State's administrative and judicial offices
(known as "Uffizi"). »
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The Museum of the Opera di Santa Croce
Find the who’s
who of the nostalgic Renaissance period
entombed under magnificent crypts and
tombs. Trace a path through the innumerable
tombstones that speak volumes with their
silence but are eloquent with intrigue
and secrets. Move slowly through a maze
of pathways and incredible buildings that
house the splendour, the pride and the
glorious creations of the most famous
artists and noble families of an unforgettable
era. The Museum of the Opera di Santa
Croce draws the mind towards the spirituality,
the mystery and the unbelievable talent
of the Florentine period. »
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