Hannibal — Film Location

In Hannibal (2001), Ridley Scott’s sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, the fugitive Dr Lecter hides in plain sight in Florence, and the film stages a notorious scene at the Palazzo Vecchio on the Piazza della Signoria. The square — an open-air museum of sculpture since the Renaissance — turns the city’s civic heart into a stage for menace.