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Fortified, 13th-century palace housing lavishly decorated chambers & ornate courtyards.
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Reviews — 8
Great place. However sometimes tower access is limited due to number of visitors. If it is your case you can still get a ticket to museum that is also gorgeous. Museum by itself is fine and the view from its windows are cool. Overall nice experience.
We did not pre book tickets, and were fortunate there was no queue to get in. You may be familiar with some of it from the Dan Brown film Inferno (starring Tom Hanks). It's an impressive building, had a QR download code (free) as an audio guide. Largely influenced by the Medici family as was much of Florence, well worth a visit while you are there.
Really great! Even after seeing a ton of great ceiling and church art, this was over the top. Not so much about the church as about an insatiable ego. It's all about Cosimo and the family. Fascinating.
You can go through the door near David and look around some bits for free.
We bought tickets to go up the tower which had great views (nothing like San Marco on Venice though!), although slightly restricted with grills/turrets/ropes depending on which level. Maybe one day we’ll go back and climb the Duomo which I think would be the king of Florence views.
There is no lift up. But the stairs were not so hard for us thankfully.
We bought tickets to go up the tower which had great views (nothing like San Marco on Venice though!), although slightly restricted with grills/turrets/ropes depending on which level. Maybe one day we’ll go back and climb the Duomo which I think would be the king of Florence views.
There is no lift up. But the stairs were not so hard for us thankfully.
An important palace with a ton of history. Today it serves as both city hall of Florence and a museum where you can find part of the Medici art collection.
Ceilings and walls are covered with beautiful paintings. It’s a real treat to walk through the building.
Recommend visiting earlier during the day as it tends to sometimes be crowded with tour groups.
Ceilings and walls are covered with beautiful paintings. It’s a real treat to walk through the building.
Recommend visiting earlier during the day as it tends to sometimes be crowded with tour groups.
Nice museum, good to visit with kids (but not too small). Mainly it is walls decorated with paintings. As a bonus, there is roof a terrace to enjoy a view on neighbor roof. Also there is a gallery above the main hall, quite impressive to see it from top
The building is beautiful, each room has its own little story, history. It was a little strange that the description often looked in a different direction to the central fresco in the room. But the map room was very special, it was nice to find our hometown on one of the maps. I would not recommend it so much for children, unless they are very into art and history.
