The name Medici immediately brings up images of power, intrigue, and artistic flourishing during the Renaissance. During this Florence Medici tour, led by an art or social historian, we'll follow ...

In the Piazza Della Signoria, which is right outside the Palazzo Vecchio—the town hall of Florence and once the residence of ...

At Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery ... were chosen to symbolize the power of the Medici, a powerful banking and military family who ruled Florence for almost 300 years between the 15th ...

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 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.

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.

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 ...

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 secretly and ... collections from one side of the Arno river to the other, the Uffizi Palace with the Pitti Palace and ...