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2. Palazzo Pitti - Wikipedia

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   Today, transformed from a royal palace to a museum, the Palazzo Pitti is owned by the Italian state. Once under the management of the Polo Museale Fiorentino, an institution which administered twenty museums, since 2015 it has been a department of the Gallerie degli Uffizi , as a separate and independent structure within the Ministry of Culture ...

3. Nano Morgante - Wikipedia

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   In 1582 the sculptor Giambologna was commissioned by Francesco de Medici to create the bronze statue The Dwarf Morgante Riding a Sea Monster for the terrace fountain of the Loggia dei Lanzi's terrace which is now known as the 'Terrazza Panoramica' of the Uffizi Gallery. Giambologna's original Nano Morgante is today in the Bargello Museum in ...

4. Historic Centre of Florence - Wikipedia

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   Heading south from the Duomo there is the political and cultural center of Florence with Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery nearby, near which are the Bargello Museum and the Basilica of the Holy Cross. Crossing the Ponte Vecchio we arrive at the Oltrarno district with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.

5. Theatres in Florence - Wikipedia

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   Today home to the Uffizi Library Teatro Mediceo: 1586: In today's Uffizi, in Classicist style, later dismantled Amphitheater of Boboli: 1637: At Palazzo Pitti, still used today for special events: Teatro Niccolini (Teatro del Cocomero) 1648: c. 500: The first "modern" theatre in the city. Reopened in 2015. Teatro della Pergola: 1656: 999

6. Boboli Gardens - Wikipedia

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   Boboli Gardens Amphitheatre, viewed from the Palazzo Pitti Bathing Venus by Giambologna as seen in the third chamber of the Buontalenti Grotto. The Gardens, directly behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, are some of the first and most familiar formal 16th-century Italian gardens.

7. Museum of Fashion and Costume - Wikipedia

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   The Museum of Fashion and Costume (the Costume Gallery) is one of the museums housed in the Pitti Palace in Florence. [1] It is housed at the Palazzina della Meridiana, a pavilion south of the main palace; it is accessible from the Boboli Gardens. [2] It was founded in 1983.