Pitti Palace - Virtual Tour 360°

Pitti Palace is an imposing Renaissance palace in Florence.

It is located in the Oltrarno area, a short distance from Ponte Vecchio.

The original nucleus of the building dates back to 1458, as the urban residence of the banker Luca Pitti.

The palace was then purchased by the Medici family in 1549 and became the main residence of the grand dukes of Tuscany, first De Medici and from 1737 Habsburg-Lorraine.

Following the unification of Italy, it played the role of royal palace for the House of Savoy in the five years in which Florence was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (1865-70).

In 1919 Vittorio Emanuele III donated it to the State: since then it has been a state museum.

In fact, it houses an important set of museums: the Palatine Gallery, arranged according to the criterion of the eighteenth-century picture gallery, with masterpieces by Raphael and Titian; the Royal Apartments, the apartment of the Duchess of Aosta and the district of the Prince of Naples (ordinarily not open to tourists); the Gallery of Modern Art (with works by the Macchiaioli), and other specialized museums: the Treasury of the Grand Dukes, dedicated to applied art; the Museum of fashion and costume, the largest Italian museum dedicated to fashion; the Porcelain Museum and the Coach Museum.

The palace is completed by the Boboli Gardens, one of the best examples of an Italian garden in the world. Since 2014, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities has brought together the palace, garden and Uffizi Gallery within a single administration, creating the Uffizi Galleries, a new entity with special autonomy.

Today it is home to permanent exhibitions and events of great cultural importance.

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