Saturday, 24 August 2024

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence.



Courtyard of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi,
Florence, Italy.
This File: 14 May 2023.
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Palazzo Medici Riccardi is a historic building in the centre of Florence , located in Via Cavour 3. The first Palace owned by the Medici family in Florence, where people such as Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent lived, it was sold to the Riccardi family in 1659, who enlarged it and lived there for about 150 years. 

After various vicissitudes, it became the seat of the Prefecture and the Metropolitan Council.


Photo: 2 September 2007.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: I, Sailko
Author: sailko
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