Palace of Florence

Medici Riccardi Palace	Pitti Palace	Rucellai Palace
Strozzi Palace	Old Palace (Palace of the Signoria)	Museums Accademia Gallery
Uffizi Gallery	Bardini Museum	Museum of the Works of the Duomo
National Museum of the Bargello	The Piazza of the Signoria	Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge")

Pitti Palace
This is the most grandiose Florentine palace. Its grounds cover more than three hectares at the summit of the Boboli hill. It was built for the banker Luca Pitti according to plans attributed to Brunelleschi, towards the mid-fifteenth century.
The grandiosity of the building demonstrates Pitti's determination to rival the Medici family.
The banker's failure led to suspension of construction, but it was revived again a century later, after which the Medici themselves bought the palace and made it their own residence.
The huge courtyard and two side wings dating from 1560 were planned by Bartolomeo Ammannati.
In 1621, under Cosimo II dei Medici, the work of expanding the vista and reorganizing the piazza began, following to the plans of Giulio and Alfonso Parigi.
The building passed into the hands of the Lorena family and then was embellished with two wings, finished by Paoletti and Poccianti in the first half of the nineteenth century, together with the smaller palace of the Meridiana.
Some of the most important Florentine museums are now located in the palace and in the Boboli gardens behind it: the Palatina Gallery (on the first floor), the Silver Museum (ground floor and mezzanine), and the Gallery of Modern Art (final floor); while in the Little Palace of the "Cavaliere" on the far side of the garden is the Porcelain Museum and in the Little Palace of the Meridiana, the Costume Gallery.