the second Duke of Florence, in 1565. “The Medici family used it to reach Palazzo Vecchio from Pitti Palace undisturbed and without running risks to their safety,” says a museum statement.
A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the Italian city of Florence unhindered ... and ends up in the Pitti Palace across the Arno river.
Florence (Italy) (AFP) – A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through ... Galleries and ends up in the Pitti Palace across the Arno river.
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move ... one side of the Arno river to the other, the Uffizi Palace with the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, and ...
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move ... one side of the Arno river to the other, the Uffizi Palace with the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, and ...
Florence's Vasari ... Not only did it allow the Medici to travel in privacy between their government offices at the Uffizi and their residence at the Pitti Palace, but it also shielded them ...
The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly and ... collections from one side of the Arno river to the other, the Uffizi Palace with the Pitti Palace and ...
By the 1560s, Cosimo I de Medici had used military might ... the old Louvre Palace with the Tuileries Palace in Paris and become intertwined with Florence’s history.